Hasan Aslangiray

Dünya Bu (The World as It Is, 2023) is a Turkish anthology comedy series on Gain, featuring 32 different self-contained stories set in a single shared world. Each episode tells a different human story with a comedic lens. Comedy is the clear dominant, drama is medium, romance and suspense are both low given the short-form anthology format with no overarching plot.

Making his living from gardening and farming in the land he inherited from his father, Hasan tries to get rid of the power pole that is going to be installed in the midst of his land. His impending voyage to Mecca for pilgrimage leads to soul searching into his past.

The same route after three and a half centuries... A creative documentary following the footsteps of the Ottoman-Armenian intellectual and traveler Eremya Celebi Komurciyan into the cosmopolitan Istanbul of the 17th century. Long before the invention of cinema, Komurciyan situates himself as a subject who observes the city of Istanbul as if he had a camera in hand. Borrowing Komurciyan’s timeless cine-eye, we delve into contemporary Istanbul to capture what is “inaccessible to the human eye” through the remnants of his route.

Bayram, who lives with his mother, father, and grandmother, dreams of meeting Sinem, whom he fell head over heels in love with at his friend's wedding. Sinem, a young and successful businesswoman, is the advertising and marketing director at Koma Kola, one of the country's largest cola companies. Bayram believes that the only way to reach Sinem is to create his own cola brand. His father, Cemal, wants Bayram to take over the family-owned sherbet shop. Bayram refuses his father's request and, with the help of his friends Hamdullah, Talha, and Mehmet Bakkal, whom he considers his older brother, sets out to win the heart of the girl he loves.

Asli is an actress working hard for her next role, Iphigenia. One day, she auditions for "shoe advertisements" but agency employees won't let her finish her role. He steals the shoe he wore during the auditions and returns to the theater like a Cinderella.