STFFShorts - Narrative Selection 2

Films are in alphabetical order:

Alis
Beril Tan | TURKEY, ARMENIA, GERMANY, US | 2025 | 17 min
Alis, an Armenian woman in Turkey, returns to her summerhouse to find her surroundings gone. Urban change threatens her home.

Ankara 1979
Can Karayalcin | TURKEY | 2025 | 19 min
In the late 1970s, as political turmoil gripped Ankara, Turkey, Faruk returns home wounded after posting illegal flyers. As political unrest seeps into daily life, he struggles between his ideals and his family duties.

Feridun
Utku Ali Güler | TURKEY | 2025 | 13 min
Feridun, a reclusive man crippled by a fear of the outside world, lives a quiet, isolated life - until one day, he discovers a mysterious note inside his washing machine.

Not Built to Last
Deniz Arikan | NETHERLANDS | 2026 | 20 min
Two architects meet for a single day in Rotterdam. What begins as a professional tour gradually reveals their differences in freedom, identity and the idea of home.

Retreat
Saim Güveloglu | TURKEY | 2025 | 15 min
Berna rents all the rooms of a boutique hotel, 'a meeting point for people longing for nature', in order to rest her head for a while. Things do not go as she expects because she overlooked something while making all these plans.

The Hotel
Halil Tanısan | TURKEY | 2025 | 11 min
A man finds himself alone in an eerie hotel, at the center of a dark plan. Everything in the hotel seems to operate according to a rule he does not know