Known for Acting
Hayalimdeki Sahneler aims to explain and analyze scenes from 3 heavily queer coded Turkish films from 80s.
Berna, a theater artist, struggles for the sake of acting only for art at a time when popular culture is dominant. Meanwhile, during a visit to a museum on 'The First Women of History', she is very impressed by the hand-painted portrait of Afife Jale, the first Muslim Turkish actress to appear on stage.
A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.
An elderly couple invite their adult children to visit their country chateau. Among the children are Omer, his undemonstrative wife who knows about Omer's mistress, and Omer's children. The other son brings his seductive lover, and the daughter, a divorcee, brings her child. Mayhem ensues when their daughter's ex-husband makes a surprise appearance at the house.
Eda (Şahika Tekand) is the owner of a picture gallery. Her husband, Idris (Levent Özdilek), who is a popular poet, is an art consultant. This intellectual couple lives in harmony intellectually, especially in the sexual life of Eda. Because Idris is alcoholic and impotent. When her husband goes to Paris for work, Eda sleeps with her friend Erdal (Mahir Günşıray), one of the friends of the night, with the influence of alcohol. This relationship gradually becomes a sensual passion
After martial law is declared, Sibel is taken in. Sibel, who has completely lost her self after the torture, tries to hold on to life. But her husband Atilla's questions about what happened in Sibel's custody will become frequent.
Işık visits a friend's summer home to spend some time alone after growing up under the strain of her surroundings and family. Here, she reflects on her prior issues and the challenges she has encountered as a woman.
