# List of Turkish films of 2011

A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2011.

## Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing Turkish films of 2011 :
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
| 1 | Eyyvah Eyvah 2 | UIP | US$20,505,652 |
| 2 | Love Likes Coincidences | UIP | US$12,349,802 |
| 3 | Valley of the Wolves: Palestine | Özen Film | US$9,749,899 |
| 4 | God's Faithful Servant: Barla | Özen Film | US$8,797,985 |
| 5 | Sümela's Password: Basic | Pinema | US$8,612,691 |
| 6 | My Grandfather's People | Warner Bros. | US$6,130,561 |
| 7 | Anatolian Eagles | Fida Films | US$5,669,800 |
| 8 | And Then What? | Warner Bros. | US$4,260,060 |
| 9 | Free Man | Özen Film | US$4,044,207 |
| 10 | Kolpaçino: Bomba | Warner Bros. | US$3,764,575 |

## Events
### January

    21 — Haydar Demirtaş's My Father Is Making History (Turkish: Babam Tarih Yapıyor) receives Best Documentary Audience Award from 15th Boston Turkish Culture and Art Festival.
    30 — Seren Yüce's Majority (Turkish: Çoğunluk) shares Grand Jury Prize at 23rd Premiers Plans European First Film Festival in Angers, France.

### February

    11 — 61st Berlin International Film Festival holds gala in collaboration with 30th International Istanbul Film Festival to promote Turkish cinema.
    16 — 10th !f Istanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival opens with gala screening of Benedek Fliegauf's Womb.
    16 — Seyfi Teoman's Our Grand Despair premiers in competition at 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
    17 — Semih Kaplanoğlu honored at 4th Crystal Clapperboard Short Film Competition.
    19 — Hamo Beknazarian's Zare (1926) screens at 10th !f Istanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival accompanied by Kurdish harpist Tara Jaff.
    24 — 43rd SİYAD Awards presented at the Türker İnanoğlu Maslak Show Center in Istanbul.

### March

    6 — Derviş Zaim's Shadows and Faces gets special green line showing in the divided Cypriot capital.
    9 — 8th Paris Turkish Film Festival opens with screening of Reha Erdem's Cosmos (Turkish: Kosmos).
    12 — 9th Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels opens in Istanbul.
    12 — Selim Güneş's White as Snow (Turkish: Kar Beyaz) wins Special Jury Award at Sofia Film Festival.
    15 — Beirut Turkish Film Festival opens with gala at Metropolis Empire Sofil Movie Theater.
    16 — 22nd Ankara International Film Festival opens with gala at Ministry of Education Assembly Hall.
    17 — 16th Nuremberg Turkish-German Film Festival honors Fatih Akın at opening gala.
    17 — Awards presented at conclusion of 7th Akbank Short Film Festival at Akbank Art Center in Taksim, Istanbul.
    20 — 3rd Golden Okra Awards presented on final day of 9th Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels in Istanbul.
    21 — 4th Yeşilçam Week starts in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.
    24 — 10th Boston Turkish Film Festival opens with gala screening of Zeki Demirkubuz's Envy (Turkish: Kıskanmak).
    25 — Derviş Zaim receives Award for Excellence in Turkish Cinema at 10th Boston Turkish Film Festival.
    27 — Derviş Zaim's Shadows and Faces (Turkish: Gölgeler ve Suretler) wins Best Film at 22nd Ankara International Film Festival.
    28 — 4th Yeşilçam Awards presented at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress & Exhibition Hall in Istanbul at conclusion of 4th Yeşilçam Week.

### April

    1 — 30th International Istanbul Film Festival opens with a gala ceremony at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall.
    5 — Restored copy of Memduh Ün's 1958 melodrama Three Friends (Turkish: Üç Arkadaş) screens at special gala at Atlas Theater in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.
    9 — 22nd Turkish Film Days in Munich opens with Yasemin Şamdereli's Almanya: Welcome to Germany to mark the 50th anniversary of the guest worker agreement.
    10 — 3rd Turkish Films Week in Bosnia-Herzegovina opens with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys (Turkish: Üç Maymun).
    11 — Tindersticks start Claire Denis Film Scores 1995-2010 international tour at 30th International Istanbul Film Festival.
    12 — Nuri Bilge Ceylan presented with French Order of Arts and Letters.
    13 — 2nd Hong Kong Turkish Films Festival opens at Elements shopping mall.
    13 — 2nd Ankara Mountain Film Festival opens at Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center.
    13 — 30th International Istanbul Film Festival Labor Awards presented
    15 — 3rd Turkish Film Week in Pristine, Kosovo opens with Uğur Yücel's Dragon Trap (Ejder Kapanı).
    16 — 30th International Istanbul Film Festival closes with awards for Seyfi Teoman's Our Grand Despair (Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz) and Tayfun Pirselimoğlu's Hair (Saç).

## Released films
### January to June

| Opened | Opened | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| J A N | 7 | Eyyvah Eyvah 2 | Hakan Algül | Ata Demirer, Demet Akbağ & Salih Kalyon | Comedy | Sequel to Eyyvah Eyvah. |
| J A N | 7 | Free Man | Mehmet Tanrısever | Ahmet Yenilmez, Mürşit Ağa Bağ & Orhan Aydın | Drama | Historical biography of Said Nursî. |
| J A N | 14 | Paper | Sinan Çetin | Öner Erkan, Asuman Dabak & Ayşen Gruda | Comedy-drama | Premiered at Antalya Film Festival. |
| J A N | 21 | Scapegoat | Cenk Özakıncı | Şahin K, Nuri Alço & Coşkun Göğen | Comedy | |
| J A N | 21 | Kutsal Damacana: Dracoola | Korhan Bozkurt | Ersin Korkut, Şahin Irmak & Özge Ulusoy | Comedy | Part of Kutsal Damacana series. |
| J A N | 28 | Valley of the Wolves: Palestine | Zübeyr Şaşmaz | Necati Şaşmaz, Gürkan Uygun & Kenan Çoban | Action | Part of Valley of the Wolves franchise. |
| F E B | 4 | Love Likes Coincidences | Ömer Faruk Sorak | Mehmet Günsür, Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan & Altan Erkekli | Drama | |
| F E B | 11 | İncir Reçeli | Aytaç Ağırlar | Melike Güner, Sinan Çalışkanoğlu & Mustafa Uzunyılmaz | Drama | |
| F E B | 18 | 7 Avlu | Semir Aslanyürek | Evmorfia Anastasiou, Muhammed Cangören & Tansel Dogruel | Comedy-drama | |
| F E B | 18 | Çalgı Çengi | Selçuk Aydemir | Ahmet Kural, Murat Cemcir & Erdal Tosun | Comedy | |
| F E B | 18 | Signora Enrica | Ali İlhan | Claudia Cardinale, İsmail Hacıoğlu & Fahriye Evcen | Comedy-drama | Premiered at Antalya Film Festival. |
| F E B | 25 | And Then What? | Özcan Deniz | Özcan Deniz, Deniz Çakır & Barış Falay | Comedy-drama | |
| M A R | 4 | 72. Koğuş | Murat Saraçoğlu | Kerem Alışık, Hülya Avşar & Yavuz Bingöl | Drama | |
| M A R | 4 | Qirej (Kir) | Yusuf Çetin | Yusuf Çetin, Zilan Odabaşı & Yalçın Dümer | Drama | |
| M A R | 11 | Bir Avuç Deniz | Leyla Yılmaz | Berrak Tüzünataç, Engin Altan Düzyatan & Zeynep Özder | Drama | |
| M A R | 11 | Kolpaçino: Bomba | Şafak Sezer | Şafak Sezer, Aydemir Akbaş & Kemal İnci | Comedy | Sequel to Kolpaçino (2010). |
| M A R | 11 | Shadows and Faces | Derviş Zaim | Osman Alkaş, Hazar Ergüçlü & Popi Avraam | Drama | Part of a Turkish arts trilogy. |
| M A R | 11 | Saklı Hayatlar | Ahmet Haluk Ünal | Ceren Hindistan, Yusuf Akgün & Laçin Ceylan | Drama | |
| M A R | 18 | Çınar Ağacı | Handan İpekçi | Nurgül Yeşilçay, Nejat İşler & Celile Toyon | Drama | |
| M A R | 18 | Press | Sedat Yılmaz | Aram Dilbar, Engin Emre Değer & Kadim Yaşar | Drama | |
| M A R | 18 | Yürügari İbram | Harun Özakıncı | Osman Azman, Serhat Saylan & Yelda Günay Akbulut | Comedy | |
| M A R | 25 | Losers' Club | Tolga Örnek | Nejat İşler, Yiğit Özşener & İdil Fırat | Comedy-drama | |
| A P R | 1 | Hop Dedik: Deli Dumrul | Oğuz Yalçın | Atıf Emir Benderlioğlu, Orhan Bıyıklı & Ceren Şekerci | Comedy | |
| A P R | 1 | Merry-Go-Round | İlksen Başarır | Mert Fırat, Nergis Öztürk & Sema Çeyrekbaşı | Drama | |
| A P R | 1 | Meş (Yürüyüş) | Shiar Abdî | Selamo, Abdullah Ado & Aydin Orak | Drama | |
| A P R | 15 | Our Grand Despair | Seyfi Teoman | İlker Aksum, Güneş Sayın & Taner Birsel | Drama | Premiered at Berlin Film Festival. |
| A P R | 22 | Çok Mu Komik? | Adem Uğur | Taylan Güner, Aydan Burhan & Halil İbrahim Kalaycıoğlu | Comedy-drama | |
| A P R | 22 | İçimdeki Sessiz Nehir | Mustafa Serkan Eröz | Taies Farzan, Ali Yiğit & Asuman Şen | Drama | |
| A P R | 22 | Lost Freedom | Umur Hozatlı | Serdar Kavak, Vedat Perçin & Öznur Kula | Drama | |
| A P R | 29 | Zephyr | Belma Baş | Şeyma Uzunlar, Vahide Gördüm & Sevinç Baş | Comedy-drama | |
| M A Y | 6 | Ağır Abi | Oğuzhan Uğur | Halil Taşdemir, Senem Başak & Serhat Turan | Comedy | |
| M A Y | 6 | Devrimden Sonra | Mustafa Kenan | Fırat Tanış, Levent Ülgen & Şerif Sezer | Comedy | |
| M A Y | 6 | Küçük Günahlar | Rıza Kıraç | Macit Koper, Esra Ruşan & Berke Üzrek | Drama | |
| M A Y | 6 | Toll Booth | Tolga Karaçelik | Serkan Ercan, Zafer Diper & Nur Aysan | Drama | |
| M A Y | 13 | White as Snow | Selim Güneş | Hakan Korkmaz, Sinem İslamoğlu & Gürkan Piri Onurlu | Drama | |
| M A Y | 14 | Departures | Ali Yasin Akarçeşme | Gamze Ceylan, Ada Alize Ertem, Temi Hason & Yavuz Hekim | Drama | |
| M A Y | 19 | Şov Bizinıs | Mustafa Uğur Yağcıoğlu | Cengiz Küçükayvaz, Cem Kılıç & Zeynep Beşerler | Comedy | |
| M A Y | 19 | Türkan | Cemal Şan | Rüçhan Çalışkur, Ragıp Savaş & Tardu Flordun | Drama | Biography of Türkan Saylan. |
| M A Y | 20 | Misafir | Ozan Aksungur | Halit Ergenç, Lale Mansur & Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu | Drama | |
| J U N | 3 | Kaledeki Yalnızlık | Volga Sorgu | Numan Çakır, Özlem Tekin & Erkan Can | Drama | |
| J U N | 10 | Adalet Oyunu | Mahur Özmen & Ali Özuyar | Erol Keskin, Mustafa Uğurlu & Tolga Evren | Drama | |
| J U N | 17 | Öfkeli Çılgınlık Karamsar Çile | Hatice Yakar | Asiye Dinçsoy, Barış Koçak & Hatice Yalçın | Drama | |

### July to December

| Opened | Opened | Title | Director | Cast | Genre |
| J L Y | 15 | Bul Beni | Evre Türkel | Melih Ekener, Müşfik Kenter & Kenan Ece | Drama |
| S E P | 9 | Hair | Tayfun Pirselimoğlu | Ayberk Pekcan, Nazan Kesal & Rıza Akın | Drama |
| S E P | 23 | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Yılmaz Erdoğan, Taner Birsel & Ufuk Karaali | Drama |
| S E P | 30 | September | Cemil Ağacıkoğlu | Turgay Aydın, Görkem Yeltan & Elena Polyanskaya | Drama |
| S E P | 30 | Sealed Mansion | Serkant Yaşar Kutlubay | Sibel Gökçe, Murat Yatman & Özlem Yücel | Horror |
| S E P | 30 | Tales from Kars | Emre Akay, Özcan Alper, Zehra Derya Koç, Ülkü Oktay & Ahu Öztürk | Şebnem Köstem, Deniz Çevik & Birsu Demir | Drama |
| O C T | 14 | Bendeyar | Joel Leang | Ümit Olcay, Haşim Akten & Şemsa Deniz Tolunay | Action |
| O C T | 14 | The Son | Atilla Cengiz | Rıza Akın, Enes Atış & Nurinisa Yıldırım | Drama |
| N O V | 4 | Allah's Devout Servant: Barla | Orhan Öztürk Esin | Fatih Gök, Enver Seyitoglu, Engin Yuksel, Sener Savas, Ugur Aslanoglu | Drama, Animation |
| N O V | 11 | Anatolian Eagles | Omer Vargi | Engin Altan | Action, Adventure, Drama |