Nowhere (Hiçbiryerde) (translated)

Hiçbiryerde (international title In Nowhere Land) is a 2002 film written and directed by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, his first film. Its producers are Zeynep Özbatur, Kadri Yurdatap and Gudrun Ruzickova-Steiner; the cinematographer is Colin Mounier and the music is by Cengiz Onural. It was first shown on April 26, 2002, at the 21st Istanbul International Film Festival and opened in cinemas on September 20, 2002.

Şükran (Zuhal Olcay) is a woman in her forties who works at the ticket window of Haydarpaşa station. Her husband went through very hard times because of his political past, and she tries to keep her son Veysel (Ruhi Sarı) away from politics. One day Veysel disappears. Şükran applies to the authorities and is turned down every time. Veysel's girlfriend Şule (Devin Özgür Çınar) says the son was killed, but Şükran is not convinced. From what people tell her she comes to believe he is in Mardin and travels there to look for him. Meral Okay plays Melek, Cezmi Baskın plays Muzaffer, Sermet Yeşil plays Halil and Michael Mendl plays Gerhard.

While the film was competing at the festival, the censorship sub-board found it objectionable, but the higher board decided to grant it an exhibition license. Zuhal Olcay won best actress at the Istanbul festival and at the SİYAD awards, and the film took the Special Grand Prize of the Jury in Montréal.