* Producer : Gülseven Güven Yaşer

   * Director : Atıf Yılmaz

  *  Cast  : Türkan Şoray-Tarık Akan-Mine Çayıroğlu-Fusun Demirel-Gülsen Tuncer-Levent     

             Yılmaz-Taner Barlas

   * Screenplay : Atıf Yılmaz-Yıldırım Türker (Based on Esma Ocak’s story)

  * Berdel was invited to 26 film festivals around the world. It won four very distinctive awards:

• Berlin Film Festival, Jury Special Award to Director Atif Yılmaz, April, 1991

• The Europa Cinema 91/ Fellini Award (Viareggio, Italy) 28 September-5 October 1991
  (This is called “The Best Film of Europe” Award)

• 12th Mostra De Valencia Cinema Del Mediterrani 10-18 October 1991
  (Golden Palm Award)

• 1991 Best Film Award by the Population Institute (13 December 1991)

  *  " Berdel” one of the best pictures  unveiled in Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama Showings, is a simple but emotionally devastating indicement of arcane customs persistent in some rural areas of Turkey.  This production of Turkey’s TAP Foundation has a message to get across, but director Atıf Yılmaz makes his point without undue propaganda.

Omer loves his wife Hanım, who has given him five daughters, but his macho image demands a son.  When another baby girl is born, he reluctantly decides he must get a new wife, but since he can not afford a dowry, he decides to follow an age –old custom and exchange eldest daughter Beyaz for a wife.

Director Yılmaz tells this sad little story without fuss, moving the narrative along briskly.  As lives are destroyed because Omer’s pride insists that he have a son, emotions in the film are very strong.

David Stratton (Variety Magazine)

  *  " Hope Was Always There” (UMUT HEP VARDI) (Feature film on safe motherhood, healthy and educated children, youth and health services)

This is a movie which tells the story of a midwife who works in a rural village, often snowbound in the winter, where a midwife is the only health personnel not only in that village but also several other villages nearby.  She tries to show these people in this rural area that skilled care of women during pregnancy, child birth and the postpartum period associated with each child decreases maternal and child deaths. She also communicates to the people that investment in maternal health improves the lives of poor and marginalized women. The process of raising the standard of maternal health includes investing in the empowerment of women so that they have the ways and means to make themselves heard and additonally to be aware of the fact that they have choices.  

  “Sparrows Don’t Migrate”(SERÇELER GÖÇ ETMEZ) 3 episodes serial on social and economic problems concerning migration from rural areas to big cities.

  “ Where The Sun Sets”(GUNEŞİN BATTIGI YER) tells about women’s human rights, domestic violence, Women’s Asylum  Shelters. The drama of girl children being forced to get married at young ages and what ordeals they are forced to go through.  

  * Documentaries:

  “ A Child Is Crying There”(ORADA BİR ÇOCUK AGLIYOR) A documentary comparing  the social and economic systems of the developed versus developing countries   and the cultural and educational problems caused by excessive population growth in the developing countries.  

  * Blue House Communication Campaign:

An IE&C Campaign was carried out in collaboration  with the Johns Hopkins University/Population Communication Services in October-December 1988. This first mult-media communication  campaign in Turkey to promote family planning nation-wide specificaly supported the design, pretesting and production of experimental radio and television dramas, comedy spots and serials.  It also helped develop a family planning strategy based on research, audience segmentation and testing of the materials.