Five films debut in Turkish theaters this week

"Im Labyrinth des Schweigens" (Labyrinth of Lies)

Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli, Germany's "Labyrinth of Lies" is an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Starring Alexander Fehling, Andre Szymanski, Friederike Becht and Johannes Krisch, the film sheds light on the post-Nazi period in Germany. Thirteen years after the war, the world still does not have any idea about what happened to the Jews in concentration camps, especially in Auschwitz. Although hundreds of thousands of documents about these camps are in the hands of officials, neither German authorities nor those who managed to survive the camps have spoken about what happened. All this changes when Johann Radmann, a young prosecutor, decides to investigate. Despite the fact that nobody is aware of what was going on, the investigation marks the beginning of a new era.

"İftarlık Gazoz" (Soda for Iftar)

Written and directed by Yüksel Aksu, the Turkish production "İftarlık Gazoz" stars Cem Yılmaz, Berat Efe Parlar, Ümmü Putgül, Okan Avcı and Yılmaz Bayraktar in the leading roles. Set in an Aegean town in the 1970s, the film is about a boy who starts working as an apprentice for a soda seller during his summer break in the holy month of Ramadan. This work relationship leads to tragi-comical incidents and a friendship between soda expert Cibar Kemal and the boy.

"Her Şey Aşktan" (Everything for Love)

Pelin learns that the love of her life, her fiance, whom she is planning to marry, cheats on her and her whole world comes apart. A handsome rock drummer, Burak, accompanies Pelin on her journey of revenge and changes her life forever. Starring Hande Doğandemir, Şükrü Özyıldız, Mithat Can Özer, Hakan Meriçliler and Öznur Serçeler, the Turkish production "Her Şey Aşktan" is directed by Andaç Haznedaroğlu.

"Spotlight"

A team of journalists, follows a story about a priest that has been sexually abusing children for the last 30 years. As the team digs deeper, they unearth that the Catholic Church is involved in a decades-long cover-up involving the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams, the Academy Award nominated film is based on a true story by a team of journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize for their story.

"The Finest Hours"

Starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, Eric Bana and Academy Award winner Casey Affleck, the film, which was directed by Craig Gillespie, is inspired by a true story. In February 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly sinking vessel.