Asena Keskinci

as Gülendam Aydan

A young literature teacher arrives at a provincial high school carrying a copy of a banned poetry collection and a past she refuses to discuss. Her name is Sevgi — “love” — and her presence becomes a quiet revolution in a town ruled by rigid traditions and unspoken grief. She is assigned to teach a class of students who have given up on dreaming, and among them is a boy whose older brother vanished under mysterious circumstances years ago, leaving a wound that has never closed. As Sevgi encourages her students to write, to question, and to feel, she unwittingly stirs the town’s buried secrets. The love that gives her name becomes both her weapon and her vulnerability, especially when she falls for the father of one of her students — a man trapped in a loveless marriage arranged by families who have never believed in romance. A poignant, lyrical drama about the transformative power of art, the courage to love in a place that has outlawed it, and the young hearts that refuse to stop beating.

as Burçak

Ferit has life figured out, or so he thinks. Blessed with a trust fund and a smile that has never failed him, he juggles three girlfriends in three different neighbourhoods, treating love like a game he has already mastered. His days are a blur of flirtation, spontaneity, and the intoxicating attention of women who never suspect they are sharing him. Then he meets Zehra — a fiercely intelligent, utterly unimpressed university student who sees through his charm like it’s made of glass. She is not dazzled, not available, and not interested. For the first time in his pampered life, Ferit has to work for something. As he finds himself abandoning his roster of admirers to chase a woman who refuses to be chased, he stumbles into the terrifying realisation that love might not be a game after all — and that the player can become the played. A hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy about growing up, letting go of old patterns, and finding the one person who makes you want to be a better man.

as Ece

Korkut Ali has spent his life as an outsider — raised in Germany by foster families who never truly loved him, he carries a bullet lodged in his brain from a shooting that gave him less than a year to live. With nothing to lose, he travels to Istanbul to find the birth parents who abandoned him, only to discover that his mother is a famous singer named Gönül, who has another son, Tolga, whom she raised in comfort and fame. The betrayal burns, and Korkut finds himself torn between a desperate hunger for his mother’s love and a furious need for revenge. Into this storm steps Ceylan, a naive fashion designer who has spent years nursing an unrequited love for Tolga, unaware that the man who will truly change her life is the dying stranger with vengeance in his eyes. As Korkut’s clock runs down, he must decide whether to spend his final months destroying the family that rejected him or building something beautiful with the woman who has shown him what love actually looks like. A sweeping, tragic romance that asks whether a life cut short can still be made whole.