Social cinema platform Fil'm Hafızası will host a new event Joy of Discovery, which will put on display independent short movies that were acclaimed at international festivals.

Fil'm Hafızası is presenting its new short movie anthology at Asmalımescit Damdayiz on May 31 at 8 p.m.

Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı, who played Teoman in his first feature-length movie "Yazı Tura" and left his mark under successful projects such as "Being Italian with Signora Enrica" and "Eyyvah Eyvah 2," will host the event.

As part of the event, there will be interviews with Kumbaracıbaşı and a contest #SoundtrackQuiz.

Short Movies

Oxytocin (2016)

Ludwig Löckinger / Austria / 11'

A single woman who lives with a doll that looks like a newborn baby. The doll is not a real baby, but Eva has real maternal instincts... It is all about oxytocin, a cuddle hormone.

Picnic (2015)

Jure Pavlovic / Croatia / 13'

Emir is heading to Sarajevo, Igman with a social worker in order to have a picnic with his dad Safet, who is in prison. However, heavy traffic causes a delay in their journey.

Heverk (2016)

Ruken Tekeş / Turkey / 14'

Hevêrk tells the story of 7-year-old Zelal, who lives on soil where people from different religions, speaking different languages live together.

Dinner for Few (2014)

Athanassios Vakalis / U.S.-Greece/ 10'

Consume, consume, consume... What will happen when we approach the end? Are we going to be strong enough to stop ourselves? Dinner for Few touches on our current sociopolitical situation at a dinner starting with this question.

Black Circle (2016)

Hasan Can Dağlı / Turkey / 15'

Desire for beauty, which people tend to suppress, sometimes causes destruction. Do we have pure beauty or violence when these dark desires are aestheticized?

Lostfound (2016)

Shakti Bhacghandani / U.S. / 12'

While rules and limitations are useful to make our environment a better place, they sometimes make our lives harder in this modern era. People actually make their lives harder with their prejudices.

The Artist's Awakening (2016)

Daniel Mejia / U.S. / 10'

Imagine a painter, who lost all of her memories in her young age, and an inspiration fairy, which visits her just at the same hour every night. What makes the young painter to stick to life is only the stories that this inspiration fairy tells her. What happens if this fairy does not visit her anymore? The Artist's Awakening tells the adventurous story of young painter Ezequel, who pursues her memories.

When: Wednesday, May 31 at 8 p.m.

Where: Asmalımescit Damdayız