Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

2011 film by Murat Saraçoğlu

television series

This film talks about the possibility of the course of two lives through the love between Umut and Deniz. It questions how one’s decisions can shape their fate. Sometimes small moments and decisions can entirely change the course of our lives. Umut’s decision to take his dog Oscar for an evening walk allows his path to cross Deniz’s. On that night, Umut will have to decide between a gateway which leads to love and a life which he needs to face and encounter on his own.

After losing her husband, Sultan, who is afraid of being left alone, tells her children that she wants to remarry immediately. However, her children do not find this appropriate, as only one day has passed since their father's death. Her son Nevzat, who has a traditional perspective, believes that no one in the small town will approve of this. Although her daughter Reyhan tries to respect her mother's wish, she thinks it is a decision made too soon. Despite her children's objections, Sultan does not give up on her desire. While searching for a suitable spouse, she also enters into business ventures, doing everything that people said "a woman cannot do." She converts her home into a guesthouse and manages it, opens a stall in the market, and competes with male vendors. Sultan’s attitude sets an example for other women in the town, who also begin to lead independent lives and work in the guesthouse and market like Sultan. Sultan’s struggle will also lead to the organization of women in the town and the development of their own identities.

Three girls in high school made a prank on the fourth girl and caused her to be expelled from the high school with her teacher. After 20 years they got together in a high society environment.

A psychological dystopia that wrings existential dilemmas with Almodóvar-like elegance. What does it mean to live in a society where punishment for crime is the complete deletion of your existence? Director Hatice Aşkın places a visually stunning predicament in front of the viewers, where a steep price must be paid for nine crimes – in addition to the rest of their life, the punished also have to give up the life they have already lived, their memory in the hearts of their close ones. Alper is about to fulfil his dream of becoming a prosecutor. As a talented employee of the public prosecutor’s office, he has made a considerable contribution to the systematic implementation of the rule of law under which people who have been greedy, lazy, impudent or lavish or have desired, envied, hated or betrayed someone are abolished from society. Alper’s moral compass is sent cartwheeling on the day when his mother is taken away due to a seemingly unnoticeable mistake, and thus an elusive part of Alper’s inner world is removed. Rule-based clarity becomes an unpredictable labyrinth traversing of which offers psychological thrills as well as deeper food for thought about the value of remembering and memories.