Tatlı Maya

SWEET YEAST BREAD OF HOPE Fiction; Turkish; English Subtitles; Turkey; 2026; Color; 91 minutes DIRECTOR: Biket İlhan PRODUCERS: Biket İlhan, Yalçın Akyıldız, Görkem Yeltan, Nihan Belgin SCREENPLAY: Nihan Belgin, Nazlı Pınar Ünlü CINEMATOGRAPHER: Refik Çakar EDITOR: Macit Panahi CAST: Ayça Bingöl, Cansu Tosun, Suna Yıldızoğlu, Erdem Kaynarca, Emre Altuğ, Erdem Ergüney, Fatih Serdar Yılmaz SYNOPSIS: Nazan's life, who runs the small bakery "Sweet Yeast," changes when Rana, a Syrian woman with nowhere to go, gives birth in the bakery. Nazan opens her home and her business to Rana and her newborn baby. As a silent bond of solidarity forms between the two women, rumors and prejudices begin to spread throughout the town. The pressure intensifies, fueled by Sami, a man obsessed with Nazan, and eventually leads to the bakery being shut down. Nazan is forced to pay the price of her conscience through the town's rejection.