Ufuk Bayraktar

When Cevahir, the village tinsmith’s eldest son, gets into mischief, his family sends him to Istanbul to work with Seyfi, a cafe owner. Little do they know, however, Seyfi’s cafe is actually an illicit casino, and soon brave and merciful Cevahir is on an unstoppable rise to the top of gangland Istanbul.

After training in a covert special operations squad, two unlikely best friends begin their first mission to rescue an ISIS-captured reporter in Iraq.

Oğuz and Bekir belong to a small troop of the Turkish army that gets ambushed on a mission and is completely decimated except for the two unequal comrades. Oğuz, who comes from Istanbul, is just completing the last months of his military service. The rebellious Bekir has to serve an extra two years of military service for disciplinary reasons. Until now, the two have not liked each other very much and have often clashed. Left to their own devices and with the enemy close on their heels, the two young men have to work together. Apart from their two rifles with their pitiful four shots, their courage and their will to survive are the only things they have left to free themselves from this adverse situation…

Kader (Destiny) tells the story of the younger years of two characters we met in Masumiyet (Innocence, 1997), the director’s second film. Bekir falls in love with Ugur. Ugur is in love with Zagor, who can’t seem to stay away from trouble. Zagor is arrested after getting involved in the murder of two police officers. Initially, this event gives some hope to Bekir, but it turns out to be the beginning of an incurable illness in the pursuit of merciless love that would last for years. As Bekir follows Ugur like a stubborn dog in run-down hotels, marijuana parties and seedy nightclubs, love grows with pain, poverty, tears and evil.