A. Halûk Ünal

A. Halûk Ünal

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Hidden Lives 2011 (6.5)

An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.
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Jiyan's Story 2017 (9)

The fascinating story of Jiyan, a female guerrilla fighter who devoted twenty years of her life in the Kurdish militant struggle, reveals women’s determination for freedom not only against another oppressive regime, but also against the patriarchy. Jiyan Tolhildan is a young Kurdish woman living in the Kurdish region of Syria. After years of oppression by her family, her teachers and the society as a whole, Jiyan decides to go to the mountains to join the Kurdish struggle for freedom. When the Arab Spring breaks out Jiyan and her friends decide to go into the cities in Syria to join the protests. They also set out to educate Syrian women on women’s rights in the Rojava region. Now, six years after the Arab Spring, Kurdish forces have a semi-autonomous region in Syria. For the first time in history, women have an autonomous political organisation and an army in Syria. The women named creating this organisation “the women’s revolution.”
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Little Black Fishes 2014 (6)

A documentary about children in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey.
Ahmet Hakan Ünal

Ahmet Hakan Ünal

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Life story of Avicenna, philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age.
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Aile Çıkmazı 2024 (10)

The story of a 4,000-year-old statue found by Turkish academics Şevket and Perihan during excavations in Egypt, which was stolen after being handed over to Egyptian authorities, and its journey from Egypt to Istanbul.
Ahmet Ünal

Ahmet Ünal

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Muslum 2018 (7.169)

A biopic about the Turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses. Born into a poor household, Muslum found his redemption in music from the initial trauma that lingered over his musical and personal life as internalizing the grief. He rose through his ashes of shattered dreams like a phoenix. He walked in darkness, sang songs filled with sorrow which stirred people's souls and created a cult following. They were calling him "Baba" (The Father).
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Mezeci Çırağı 2017 (2.5)

Özkan, who is still too young to distinguish between work and play, works for free alongside his father, Mezeci İsmail Hakkı, who is struggling to make ends meet with his three-wheeled mobile cart. Pirinç Han, once a place where grain was sold, no longer lives up to its name. As a apprentice to the grocer, Özkan quietly observed and remembered the daily lives of the merchants at Pirinç Han in the 1970s... What else will Özkan witness? What kind of ending will he write?