Yeşim Ustaoğlu Movies

Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage that...

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...

Turkish film industry has been experiencing a breakthrough in the last ten years. According to 2015 figures, there is a bold uptrend in terms of...

When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care...

Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in...

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....

Dream Workers is an intimate and daring journey into women's creativity, dreams, and unexpected confrontations by life through the intertwined...

Two film school graduates intimidated by the gender stereotypes that pervade film industry decide to make a documentary to explore the issue. The two...

A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past.

A man with no recorded memory about his past finds himself in a bar, following a mysterious woman whom he finds familiar. This abrupt encounter leads...

The film portrays the bus journey of a young woman played by the director herself. Throughout the journey, the woman's mind goes off to a few...

The documentary shot in a Laz village called M3’anu is about the lives of women living in the region. The documentary focuses on women who have...

The film is an investigation of a hotel that no one can leave.

Inspired by Wendy Lichtman's story, Ustaoğlu's second short film portrays a little girl's discovery of death.

Taking place at a reclusive musician's house and portraying a single night, the film follows a young man, who has escaped from Germany to Istanbul.