Direction: Yesim Ustaoglu

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yesim Ustaoglu. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Journey to the Sun

1999 · Movie · 104 min. · Turkey

Direction Yesim Ustaoglu

Cast Nazmî Kirik · Newroz Baz · Mizgin Kapazan · Ara Güler

Synopsis Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned,...

6.9

23 votes

6.9

23 votes

Pandora's Box (Pandoranin kutusu)

2008 · Movie · 109 min. · Turkey

Direction Yesim Ustaoglu

Cast Tsilla Chelton · Derya Alabora · Onur Unsal · Övül Avkiran

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

6.5

604 votes

6.5

604 votes

Tereddut (Clair-obscur)

2016 · Movie · 105 min. · Turkey

Direction Yesim Ustaoglu

Cast Mehmet Kurtulus · Metin Akdülger · Okan Yalabik · Funda Eryigit

Synopsis Two Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.

6.0

117 votes

6.0

117 votes

Waiting for the Clouds

2003 · Movie · 90 min. · Turkey

Direction Yesim Ustaoglu

Cast Rüçhan Caliskur · Ridvan Yagci · Dimitris Kaberidis · Ismail Baysan

Synopsis 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 and her sister remained in Turkey while taking great pains to cover their true origins.

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Araf: Somewhere in Between

2012 · Movie · 124 min. · Turkey

Direction Yesim Ustaoglu

Cast Özcan Deniz · Nihal Yalcin · Neslihan Atagül · Yasemin Conka

Synopsis ARAF is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum! The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to...

Not rated

Not rated