Movies: Cem Bender

When a nationalistic wealthy landowner's idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds himself in a conflict between his feelings and politics under the shadow of the events of September 6th-7th in 1955, the Istanbul Pogrom....

Hakan and Esra are a married couple in their mid-thirties. They are both uncertain about having a baby, but life has a surprise for them....

A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British. The massacre sends shock waves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack. The explosi...

A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980, where the only language allowed to be spoken in prison is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” ...

Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and his first wife gives birth to their forth daughter....

Agapi, an old Greek woman, returns to Turkey with her granddaughter, Elpida, in hopes of buying back her childhood home, but the new owner, a young Turkish man, is adamantly against selling it. The three strangers begin to share the house trying to c...

Complex and intriguing Turkish drama about revenge killing. A young woman who went into hiding from her family talks about her life in a documentary. An uncle who sees the film in Germany won't let it rest ....

Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to th...