Pelin Esmer — Director (6)

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And the Rest Will Follow (2025)
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佩林·埃斯默 actor: 蒂姆钦·埃森 / Merve Asya Özgür
other title: O da Bir Şey mi / 一切随之 …
Dreamy housekeeper Aliye spends her days between hotel rooms, escaping into the lives of the guests. But after a brief encounter with a famous filmmaker, Aliye decides that she has a story to tell, leading to an entanglement of lives and fictions.

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Oyun (2005)
Oyun Douban
other title: 表演 / The Play
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.

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Queen Lear (2019)
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other title: 女王李尔 / Kraliçe Lear …
Shakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into 'Queen Lear' in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group

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10 to 11 (2009)
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other title: 十到十一 / 11'e 10 kala …
Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.

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Something Useful (2017)
İşe Yarar Bir Şey WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
佩林·埃斯默 actor: 巴莎克·柯克露卡亚 / 奥约库·卡拉耶尔 …
other title: 有用的事 / İşe Yarar Bir Şey …
A chance meeting on a train in the Turkish countryside leads two women to a journey that shows them the importance of setting a path for one's life.