Yavuz Bingöl

Winner, Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, Three Monkeys opens with a politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident in the dead of night. Afraid of hurting his election chances, he pays off his chauffeur Eyup to take the rap. While Eyup stews in jail, this devil's bargain takes its toll on his brooding son Ismail and restless wife Hacer, who falls into an illicit affair with the politician.

55-year-old Katalin flees her family and finds herself in Istanbul, where newfound love ensures her emotions are liberated, albeit ephemerally.

In the struggle for democracy, during the dark and bloody days of September, the people came up against the army.  As unpublicised murders were committed, Gece, a 4-year-old girl, witnessed her parents’ murder by the police in a house where some revolutionists were living. Years later, Gece accepted to be a suicide bomber for a revolutionist organization in order to avenge her parents. But she would discover the value of life, love and friendship in the city she came to for revenge when she met the custodian’s son Yusuf.