Red Istanbul

Red Istanbul (İstanbul Kırmızısı, 2017) is Ferzan Özpetek's Turkish-Italian melodrama, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Orhan, a writer who spent years in London, comes back to Istanbul to edit the memoir of Deniz, a celebrated film director living in a once-grand family mansion.

What looks like a simple editing job pulls Orhan into Deniz's tangled world — secretive friends, an uneasy household, things left unsaid. Then Deniz vanishes without a trace, and the manuscript turns into a search for the man behind it. Halit Ergenç, Tuba Büyüküstün, Nejat İşler and Mehmet Günsür lead the cast. Özpetek adapted the film from his own novel, which gives it a confessional, personal pulse and his trademark eye for Istanbul as a character in its own right. Stream Red Istanbul online on iFILM.