Rıza Akın

Working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop, Serap takes matters into her own hands when her father postpones their move into an apartment.

A Turkish poet works in Bosnia to help extricate bodies from a mass grave, all the while remembering old stories as a daily escape.

Life is going rather off course for Rıza Şenyurt, until he finds a one-month job. He is to be Santa Clause until New Year’s night. Rıza Şenyurt however, is a Santa with problems. For one thing, he doesn’t even know what Santa Clause does. But now there’s no way out of it. With the weight of the world on his shoulders, Santa Rıza Şenyurt finally discovers the trick to ‘santahood’: The thing we call ‘life’ is no more real than those little white lies that kids fall for.

Shortly after a wimpy and meek literature teacher is abandoned by his dominant wife, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake.