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The Trace P

Yeşim Ustaoğlu

1994|Turkey|35mm|Color|118"

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Superintendent Kemal, who has been depressed by the suicide of a musician Cezmi Kara recalls the tortures he had done to the criminals.

Journey to the Sun P

Yeşim Ustaoğlu

1999|Turkey / Germany / Holland|35mm|Color|104"

A young Turkish man, Mehmet, migrates to Istanbul and takes a job. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. When his Kurdish friend is killed in a street protest, he takes a trek to return the friend’s dead body to his home near Iraqi border…

Waiting for the Clouds G

Yeşim Ustaoğlu

2004|Turkey / Germany |35mm|Color|92"

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When the Turkish war of independence ended in the early-1920s, Greeks were forcefully deported from Turkey. For the five decades that followed, a Greek woman Ayse and her sister remained in Turkey while taking great pains to cover their true origins...

Pandora's Box PG

Yeşim Ustaoğlu

2008|Turkey / France / Belgium / Germany|35mm|Color|112"

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When three forty-something-year-old siblings in Istanbul receive a call one night that their aging mother has disappeared from her home on the Western Black Sea Coast of Turkey, the three set out to find her, momentarily setting aside their problems...

Araf - Somewhere in Between PG

Yeşim Ustaoğlu

2012|Turkey / France / Germany|DCP|Color|124"

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Pretty Zehra and handsome Olgun spend most of their young lives working in a service station cafeteria near a lonely highway. Zehra becomes fascinated by an older truck driver Mahur and dreams that love will take her away from her meaningless job and life…

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