
Handan İpekçi
Directing
Known For

A matriarch and her grandson forge a special bond during family picnics every two months, until her health causes a conflict among the relatives.
The Plane Tree

Complex and intriguing Turkish drama about revenge killing. A young woman who went into hiding from her family talks about her life in a documentary. An uncle who sees the film in Germany won't let it rest .
Hidden Faces

An orphaned Kurdish child (Hêjar) and a Turkish pensioner (Rıfat) are thrown together by circumstance. Rıfat, a widowed retired judge, refuses to get involved in politics. He is forced out of his solitude, when Hêjar the only survivor of a police raid on his Kurdish neighbors, takes refuge at his home. Gradually, he warms up to the kid and decides to reunite her with her family.
Big Man, Little Love

Dream Workers is an intimate and daring journey into women's creativity, dreams, and unexpected confrontations by life through the intertwined stories of eight women filmmakers and a village women's theatre group from Turkey. The conditions of urban and cultural gentrification, pandemic, and isolation that initially threaten the film become part of the film. Listening to the creation stories of these women directors, including the director of the documentary, the audience experiences their different ways of living life and making art under the contemporary socio-cultural dynamics of Turkey.
Dream Workers

The story of three children whose parents are arrested during the coup...
Babam Askerde

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Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları

Abandoned by vacationers, distressed and angry dogs roam the streets of a seaside town but a far worse fate awaits them.
The Payoff
Through its protagonist Dicle, the film addresses how trapped women become in the triangle of patriarchal ideology, the beauty industry and media.