Best Turkish animation movies

Çanakkale Geçilmez (2005)

“Çanakkale is Impassable” is the first and longest cartoon made about the Çanakkale War and has the distinction of being the first war cartoon in Turkey. It is also the first cartoon in which the most figures, ship models and special effects were used and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other important figures were drawn using animation techniques.

Fatih Sultan Mehmet (1994)

hypnagogia (2020)

As sleep takes hold, a strange light flickers in the darkness

Avarya (2019)

Embarked on a spaceship in the hope of finding a new habitable planet, the human trapped in his own ship after the robot overseer finds every single candidate planet unsuitable.

Uzay Kuvvetleri 2911 (2014)

Caught between rock and a hard place, how does one handle an ancient legend of an alien nation?

The Flying Fish (2019)

The journey of a flying fish marks the beginning of the transition to a new era.

Lal (2020)

Born with a word from nothing, the creature must eat one of its own kind to survive. Even though this word which the creature has managed to pronounce brings him friends, enemies and new prey, it is difficult to maintain the balance. A big fight is inevitable and it will take a long time to get back to the beginning.

Golden Shot (2015)

Numerous little robots, each in their own little lighthouse, work on keeping the light alive. This in anticipation of the appearance of a sun that will, literally, give them wings. Finally the moment seems to have arrived...

Rafadan Tayfa: Kapadokya (2024)

The Toymaker Hidden Heirloom (2020)

Sabahattin Parlar makes old Ottoman figures from electrical cables in his house on the island of Avşa. He travels to the memories of his childhood days by making these figures, which can be played like toys, in his small workshop at home, whenever he finds time.

Hay (1992)

Story of a child in no-man's land.

Rafadan Tayfa 6 (2025)

Bluefish (2017)

Can a documentary save a fish species from extinction?

King Shakir: Rise of the Giants (2024)

Thanks to the rapid development of technology, a famous technology company has created a system where electronic devices can become mobile and move in any direction. Şakir and his family are admirers of the products made by this company. However, the owner of the company, an investor named Harun, had organized exploration trips in the past under the leadership of Şakir’s grandmother, the archaeologist Seniha. During these trips, they discovered a stone from prehistoric times. The mysterious evil power trapped inside this stone, in which it had been locked for centuries, is released and possesses Harun. Harun activates the technological army which he has created to take over the world. Meanwhile, Şakir and his family will try to find their lost grandmother Seniha and simultaneously protect the world from evil.

Among the Ruins (2018)

A young poet named Lal (32) spends his endless days alone with his thoughts inside his small prison cell. A sparrow, not certain if its real or if its a product of his imagination, suddenly appears inside his cell. This sparrow flying frantically while looking for an escape, pushes Lal to go on a personal journey caught in between reality and a dream. As the poet returns to the streets of the city of his childhood, he will find time frozen, his memories destroyed and his people scattered.

Wicked Girl (2017)

S. is an eight-year-old Turkish girl endowed with an exuberant imagination, who loves nature and animals. When, from her hospital bed she recalls the happy days spent in her grandparents village, dark and terrifying memories rise to the surface and slowly start to make sense.

Fırıldak Ailesi: Batsın Bu Orta Dünya (2017)

One night, when all the women are abducted from the village, Sabri Firildak and his friends enter a magical forest to get their wives back.

On Color (2019)

Rumi, poet, scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic of the 13th century, in his famous Masnavi (Book I), asked a profound question: “As all colors emerged from the void of lack of color, how can color fight with lack of color? ” Da Cor (2019) is the story of light, after being born through the dark void that precedes the universe, it disperses in red, green and blue and from there to all the various colors of the visible spectrum, they emerge and flow into each other, creating all possible forms of tones. After the useful life of the light, it returns to the primordial state of the dark void of "Chaos".

Kaleidoscope (2017)

Flying through a tunnel made of kaleidoscopic photographs.

Stop (2014)

In a broken corner of the world, while awaiting at a bus stop people encounters the creature that causes strange events.

The Eye (2018)

The Box (2016)

The happy life of a Syrian kid alters instantly with the sudden war and he finds himself in a state of struggle. The war changes not only lives, but also the role of his box; first as a carefully built toy house, then as a place to take shelter in a refugee camp with full of dangers and finally as a boat that sails for a journey towards hope.

Primitive Geometry (2018)

Motion in a surreal world; this world is not chaotic, it's a simple environment and nothing is static.

Kaptan Pengu ve Arkadaşları 4: Buzuldaki Sır (2024)

The Garden (2016)

The story of a girl who spent her early childhood in nature but then had to grow up in a big city.

Kral Şakir: Cumburlop (2023)

Fish Out of Water (2021)

“Fish Out Of Water” is a short experimental animated movie. When the norms, traditions, customs and culture of the society are taken as the basis, there are individuals outside of them, they cannot adapt to the existing order and are labeled “misfit”. This is exactly the subject of this animation. “Fish Out Of Water”, whose main character is Osto, presents the society that caused the character's internal and external conflicts and the lost individual himself.

Mercury (2015)

A young artist who works as a gallery assistant is taken to a luxury dinner with her boss, the gallery owner, after an international art fair. An art collector, a curator and an institution director join the table where she is introduced to the absurd and corrupt hierarchy of the art world. She observes the table all night and tries to take part in the conversation, but is not acknowledged. In every attempt to communicate with the important figures of the art world, she is disappointed.

Kral Şakir: Oyun Zamanı (2018)

A favorite of audiences of all ages, King Shakir is ready to take you to a whole new adventure. When a lab experiment goes wrong, a portal opens between a game on Fil Necati's phone and real life. Shakir finds himself and his family trapped in the games on Fil Necati's phone, on a quest to save the world. Shakir and his family must now complete all the games and stop the game before the real world comes to an end. In this adventure, our heroes will face many enemies who will try to stop them, and go through many perilous video games. The fun-filled King Shakir by Grafi2000 and the BKM team will be in theaters on 11 May.

Tetrist (2011)

“Tetrist” is a lost Tetris game set-up of today’s Istanbul. The game starts with the image of a re-worked 16th century Pera District miniature of Nasuh the Macer, and moves on with the company of music art that documents the last century of Istanbul. The buildings in the district fall down like Tetris pieces, and get placed by an invisible player. Having been built faster and faster with the proceeding time and changing music art, buildings leave Galata Tower behind and move on to the point of “Game Over”.