Nazım Hikmet Ran

It’s an allegorical story about an evil desert spirit who tries to destroy an oasis that is tended by beautiful Aishe. Luckily, a cloud falls in love with her and protects the oasis, although it costs him his life. It features mixed techniques (puppets, marionettes, and hand-drawn animation). Based on a script by a Turkish poet, Nâzım Hikmet Ran (who lived in exile in Soviet Union).

A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst.

A young who lost his memory during the occupation of Istanbul and thinks he still lives in that time, finds himself in Turkey of Republic when he's treated after 17 years later.

A young who lost his memory during the occupation of Istanbul and thinks he still lives in that time, finds himself in Turkey of Republic when he's treated after 17 years later.

The events taking place around an illegitimate child named Tosun.

It is Avni Dilligil's first cinema experience. He portrayed Doğan Sergeant and it is said that Atatürk's revolutions were depicted. There is no copy surviving to this day.

Ahmet, a bank teller, is a principled man who is organized in his work and family life. One day, he is assigned to collect money in Adana. On the train journey he takes for this purpose, a woman boards his compartment at one of the intermediate stations.

Keloğlan and Tekin are two brothers. One night, they come to a coffee shop with the desire to become apprentices. Since the coffee shop has not had any customers for a long time, they are not hired. The two, who spend the night there, wake up when three dervishes arrive. With the dervishes' prayers, the coffee shop fills up with customers. The two brothers are regarded as miraculous. Tekin's fame spreads throughout the world, and princesses from India, China, and Kaf want to marry him, sending envoys to the coffeehouse. Tekin rejects all these offers and eventually falls in love with Zeynep, a shepherdess.

A documentary film about Istanbul.

A documentary film about Bursa city.

The story of composer Sadullah Aga who fell in love with the Sultan's concubine and fell into the dungeons.

It tells the story of the funny situations that occur when the advertisements placed in an advertising agency are mixed up due to the carelessness of the staff working in the office.

23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of four Turkish and three Korean war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of the war and post-war era.

Shepherd Hayret Efendi suddenly rises to the position of Grand Vizier. After becoming Grand Vizier, Hayret Efendi makes many wrong decisions. Following these decisions, the Janissaries and Sipahis revolt and decide to execute the Grand Vizier. To escape this situation, the Grand Vizier consults his father-in-law.

All the cavalry on horseback. Then one of them fell off his horse. The army did not turn to look at the fallen soldier. The horsemen marched in all their splendor to the setting sun. That's when the soldier, left alone, remembered the past. A free adaptation of Nazim Hikmet Ran's poem "Weeping Willow".

The love story of rich Hursit and Fadime, the daughter of a roasted chickpea maker.

A young lawyer named Vakil Ahmed earned the nickname "The Oddball" for his honest and truthful words, as well as the purity of his soul. Many people in society give and receive bribes, including Vakil Ahmed, which causes him to lose his faith. Thanks to the worker Salim, Vakil Ahmed is released from prison.

Childhood friends Ahmet and Nuri, the sons of poor farmers, grew up together, studied together, and worked together in a factory. Together, they publish the magazine Light, which opposes the colonial policies of foreign capital and military pacts. After their first imprisonment, the friends' paths diverge: Nuri betrays his convictions and joins a reactionary newspaper. His life is now safe, but he finds no joy or peace. Meanwhile, Ahmet, having become one of the main enemies of the reactionaries, attracts more and more patriots to his side.

The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water then the marriage will be allowed.

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the most complete realization of what he was aiming for with his Turkish documentaries. It's not difficult to see why this was his favorite: here he abandons the historical commentary and documentary observation of the other shorts in favor of an emotional emphasis on the lives of the poor and the unemployed.

The film is about turkish poet Nazim Hikmat's autobiography.

Aysel, while working for the strong Satilmiszade family, is seduced by her boss and becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child. Ali, from another village is concerned with her situation, and he offers her a job: to accompany his disabled mother.

The third adaptation for the cinema of a work created by combining the legends of "Kızılırmak" and "Karakoyun."

A young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they are forced to negate patriotism and dependability to their families and nations, for a length of a lifetime before during and after the war. This movie is not a colorfull. About 5 years later, this movie was shot again wtih same actors and actresses (except for Selda Alkor).

The railway station in a small town in Western Anatolia where no birds or caravans pass, during the most active and critical days of the National War of Independence in 1921. One is the station chief, who lost his eye and the other foot on the front, and the other was left with caries, and the other was the wife of the station chief.

A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst.

A parable of man going through war & peace and finding unity in the end.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

The legendary love story of Ferhat and Sirin.

Aysel, while working for the strong Satilmiszade family, is seduced by her boss and becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child. Ali, from another village is concerned with her situation, and he offers her a job: to accompany his disabled mother.