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In 2087, Ayla escapes reality by living inside cyberspace. When a government AI summons her to Istanbul to identify a dead man, her journey turns into a confrontation with memory, reality, and the truth of her own existence. Set in 2087, in a future where a lifetime can be compressed into seconds through technology, Once Upon a Time in Cyberspace tells the story of a woman trying to escape reality and a task that forces her to travel from Izmir to Istanbul. The film explores the pain of being the one left behind—losing people, places, and moments, and continuing to live within memories.

A girl, troubled by thoughts of her future, fades into the overwhelming darkness of nighttime Istanbul

A man confronted with the fear of being forgotten after death resorts to various absurd methods to be remembered after he dies, but ultimately realizes that the way to achieve lasting impact is not through being remembered by others, but through the moments and feelings he experienced.

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.

In bustling Istanbul, Salih and Ayşe's world teeters on the edge with their mute son. Salih's job loss throws them into turmoil. In a bold twist, Ayşe secretly takes the helm of their motorcycle taxi, Rosinante, under Salih's guise. As they weave through the city's vibrant chaos, seeking a new, affordable haven, their journey takes a dramatic turn when Rosinante vanishes, catapulting them into a thrilling, unknown chapter of survival and discovery.

Meet the Istanbul drag artist defying exclusion, claiming strength, identity, and resistance on the city's streets by day.

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Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.

Hano of Old Balat wakes up in New Balat. Startled by the transformation, her journey to locate raki—on which she meets many a local and good samaritan—ensues.

This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space through the unique, yet common experiences of queers from different backgrounds, and focuses especially on nightlife and the issue of safe space there, which is a very critical area for queers to exist as they are.

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More than a quarter of a million Syrian refugee children live in Istanbul, Turkey. Not all of them have access to education. Two sisters decide to bring school to the street.

Dov, an undercover Mossad agent, gets called for retirement, just as the Mossad's number one target walks into the Turkish hotel where he was stationed. As Israel's intelligence agency interrogates him, Dov will retell and re-adjust the story of taking matters into his own hands, as he is adamant to prove he is still worth something in this world.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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Someone born in the 1990s, who never actually lived in 1990s Istanbul, can only long for what they’ve seen in old videos. But how do you yearn for moments you never experienced... or why do you? In this nostalgic Istanbul we don’t remember, a digital passage unfolds from the European side to the Asian side, told only through the footage recorded on the cameras of those who once lived it.

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