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Zarife, a trained bear and Imdat, her Gipsy master, earn their living on the streets by performing their traditional show. After getting caught and taken to forest by the city police one day, Zarife's natural instincts start to awake, making her restless to return back home, back to the forests.

In 1976, Suha Arin was a tutor at the faculty of Social Sciences of Ankara University at the Press and Publishing Department (today's Communication Faculty). Like many of his films, the documentary "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" was filmed with the help of a group of enthusiastic students. Safranbolu presents some of the few surviving examples of striking traditional Turkish architecture. The beauty of houses as well as the negative impacts of the passage of time are reflected in the documentary "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" one of the aims of the film was to raise public awareness of the need for protection for culture and nature. In 1977, the Culture Ministry declared Safranbolu to be a "Historic Site" and in 1995 UNESCO declared the area to be a World Heritage Site. Therefore, making the area not just ours but joint heritage with all the world. At the 1977 Antalya Film Festival "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" was chosen "Best Documentary Film" and won the Golden Orange Prize.

The "Until Eternity" documentary, which was prepared in commemoration of the 1988 International Mimar Sinan Year, reflects the life and works of the great architect. It is composed of six parts, each lasting half an hour. Many experts in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman languages, architects, art historians and social anthropologists worked for The Mimar Sinan Research Center which was founded within MTV for the preparation of the documentary. The Center mainly dealt with the life and structural activities of Mimar Sinan and held comparative studies on Ottoman administrators who lived in the same era while analyzing the political, social, economical and cultural events in Europe and Asia. More than ten thousand information tags were prepared for this purpose. The "Until Eternity" documentary was completed in a year and a half with shootings held in more than thirty provinces covering a total distance of 40,000 km within the Turkish borders. Shootings were also held in Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Syria. "Until Eternity" received the "Jury Special Award" at the 1989 Lausanne International Film Festival on Architecture and Urbanization, the "Architecture Award" at the 1990 UNESCO International Art Films Competition and the "Council of Europe Special Award" at the 1990 Bordeaux Festival of Films on Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Ayasofia (Hagia Sophia) of today, accepted as one of the greatest monuments of the history of architecture, was built approximately 1500 years ago by two architects from Western Anatolia, Isidoros of Miletos (Soke) and Anthmios of Tralles (Aydin). Approximately ten thousand laborers under the supervision of a hundred master craftsmen constructed the present building, commissioned by the Emperor Justinian and completed on December 27, 537. Ayasofia was regarded with great affection and solicitude by the Byzantine emperors who succeeded Justinian. It became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. This sacred building in Istanbul was also held in great esteem by the Ottoman Sultans. In the 16th century, during the reign of Selim II, Sinan, Architect-in-Chief to the Sultan constructed gigantic buttresses that prevented Ayasofia from collapsing. In the garden of Ayasofia is the biggest of the Ottoman royal tombs, containing the bodies of a number of Sultans and princes.

"Fatma of the Forest" documentary, screened in 1979, International Year of Children, reflects life, longings and a major "fear" in her subconscious of an 12-years old "woodcutter" girl living under very hard conditions in the forests of Toros Mountains at an altitude of approximately 2000 mt. The documentary, aiming to symbolize a little-known but common practice of child labor with Fatma, accomplishes a dramatic portrayal of laborers who work for Ministry of Forestry in works of lumbering and logging, totally deprived of social security. In the documentary, alongside with the daily lives of the woodcutters, Semah Dance, one of the most important elements of the folklore of woodcutters, is the final act. The Semah Dance symbolizes a "resistance" that was started about 400 year ago by the famous folk poet Pîr Sultan Abdal.

"The Western Black Sea" from the series "Old Houses Old Masters", tells the story of a world famous master and his world famous violin: Ayla Erduran and her Stradivarius... The beginning of the film "The Ballad of the Wood" documents the master craftsmen who are connoisseurs of the particular type of tree, which is said to be utilized for the making of these renowned violins. Directed by Suha Arin, "The Ballad of the Wood" reveals the traditional architecture of the houses of the Western Black Sea region for centuries has been passed down from father to son, from master to apprentice through secrets and a technique known as "canti". Some of the houses shown have been standing for the last 100 to 150 years. The film honors the great craftsman of the past who utilized the "dizeme" technique through an emphasis on structures that are 300 years old. These examples are some of the most unique to be found in the Western Black Sea region. This craft has been passed down from generation to generation. Now only a few old and tired practitioners are left and they reveal to the camera their anti-earthquake construction techniques. The average age of the craftsmen is 80 years old. The documentary not only portrays the famous "bagdadi" houses of the Western Black Sea region but also indicates the connection between the style and construction of housing found at Bolu, Göynük, Safranbolu, Mudurnu, Gerede, Boyabat, Inebolu, Kastamonu, Tokat and Amasya.

With ages ranging from 64 to 104, the film "When the Fog Dispelled" documents nine artisans who constructed many of these houses. Also revealing aspects of traditional Eastern Black Sea life.

On July 1, 1927 Gazi Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), addressing the guests filling the Main Hall of Dolmabahce Palace said "This palace is no longer the palace of the sultans called the shadows of God, but of the nation, a living real entity", emphasizing the beginning of a new era not only for the Palace but also for the whole Turkish nation. Dolmabahce Palace, completed in 1855 with the first foreign debt, was a flamboyant symbol of the Ottoman efforts to westernize. The palace hosted six sultans and witnessed the fall of the Empire. After the proclamation of the Republic, Ataturk spent almost four years in Istanbul mostly at Dolmabahce Palace. The Palace then played the role of a center for educational and cultural reforms which were a part of the Turkish revolution. In 1938 Ataturk passed away in Dolmabahce Palace, which is a museum today in service of all. The research for this documentary, planned for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ataturk, took one year and filming was completed in three months. The film compares the role of the Palace in the Ottoman period with its transformation in the Republic, enhanced by the incomparable presence of Ataturk, in a detailed portrait of space and structure.

Formed as a trade colony in a drought and rocky peninsula almost three thousand years ago, Byzantion looked down on Halkedon, abounding in vineyards and gardens on the coast of Asia, since Byzantion considered Halkedon as a "Land of Blinds". And, this was not groundless. Byzantion, located in the intersection of South and North, East and West, searched for power and fortune. This power and fortune was engraved on coins, turned into gold and accumulated. As the capital city of three empires, the city permeated the gold dust into icons, mosaics, foils, tombacs. The silhouette of the city, the hills of which were crowned by the domes united with Haliç at the sunset; Haliç began to be called as "golden horn". The time passed and the ages change, but Istanbul remained to be both the center and symbol of fortune. Assyrians, Armenians and Muslims engraved gold; the tradesmen of Covered Bazaar sold this gold for centuries. The golden ornament of synagogues and churches became a witness of Hebrew prayers and the sermons of Orthodox, Gregorian, Catholic and Protestan priests. Halic, the Golden Horn, where the sultans sprinkled gold in the glorious days of Topkapi Palace reverberated with the sounds of prayer calls from the mosques of Mehmet the Conqueror, Suleyman the Magnificent and Sultan Ahmet. And for many years people immigrated to Istanbul where they thought "the streets were paved with gold". The documentary examines the theme of "World City Istanbul", from the foundation of the city up to the present, by using the "gold" motif from Hagia Sophia to Suleymaniye, first coins to gold exchange, culture and art to daily life.

A 30-minute documentary about the life and works of Cemal Resit Rey, an eminent composer who did much to acquaint Turkish music lovers with Western classical music and to popularize it in Turkey.

This 30-minute documentary, commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari A.S., Turkey's biggest bottle and glass manufacturer and "World Youth Year" as well. It describes the daily lives of three young men employed in three different sections of the Pasabahçe Glassworks, the stages of their apprenticeship, which will lead one day to master craftsman status, their thoughts and feelings.

This documentary explores Istanbul's 700 year-old monument of art, the Chora, concentrating on the artistic rather than the spiritual aspects of the colorful paintings which decorate its galleries. The mosaics which decorate the walls of the Chora are considered to be the most distinguished and important in the history of mosaic, while the frescoes are regarded by some art historians as "the first glimmer of the Renaissance"". Originally built as a monastery in the 7th century, it did not achieve its current significance until the 14th century when it came under the artistic influence of the poet, scholar and statesman, Metokhites. The Chora, "woven with the delicacy of a silk carpet" and presented to mankind by Metokhites and his artists, was renamed "Kariye" and converted into a mosque following the Turkish conquest of Istanbul. After being used as a mosque for over 400 years, it was finally turned into a museum with the coming of the Republic. Kariye is a masterpiece of art and creativity which is visited by tens of thousands of tourists from every nation and religion each year. This documentary seeks to reveal the traces left behind by all those cultures and artists who have worked and worshiped within and around this extraordinary building for over 700 years. Whether it has been inspired by Byzantine hymns or Orthodox prayers, by the call to prayer or Ottoman formulas of faith, this film presents the continuity and universality of human creativity.

During the researches of Suha Arin and his team on Sinan the Architect which was intensified in 1988, a booklet called "Tezkiret-ül Bünyan" in which the memories of Sinan took place was translated to modern Turkish. Meanwhile, a painting of Sinan which was made while he was alive was discovered by chance in one of the miniatures brought from a library found in Ireland. Consequently, new details on Sinan was acquired. How did Hüseyin Anka interpret Sinan in his mental image with the limited data of that time as a sculptor, who had the responsibility to make a sculpture of Sinan, by winning a competition arranged upon the order of Atatürk to "make a sculpture of Sinan". After reading the memories of Sinan and seeing the miniature of him, how did Hüseyin Anka interpret and do it after 45 years old? "Re-evaluation of Sinan Through Hüseyin Anka" is the outcome of the searches of the director to find an answer for these questions. In this documentary, Hüseyin Anka, by working on a mud bust, reinterprets step by step the fifty-year period in which Sinan was a chief designer. This film is a phenomenon in which two artists, who came from a village and achieved a carrier with the state support, share their sorrow and question yesterday, today and tomorrow after 450 years by coming together in a workshop as the "real" artists who still perform their skills even in their 80s.

The Covered Bazaar (Kapalicarsi) is a 500-year-old hope chest of the city Istanbul which has a three-thousand-year past in the place where Europe meets with Asia. Resembled to a tiny town with its four thousand stores, eleven khans and more than fifty streets, the Covered Bazaar is like a mirror, reflecting the yesterday and today of Istanbul. The Covered Bazaar, the construction of which began during the period of Fatih in the 15th century, consisted of just two bedestens at the beginning, but as the centuries passed it has acquired its today's form by enlarging around a core area. This great architecture which reflected the whole wealth of the empire during the Ottoman period, with the precious presents coming from every corner of the world, was also a Anatolian bazaar where the unknown craftsmen exhibited their handicrafts. Nowadays, every day hundred kilos of gold are passed into other hands, processed and get new forms in the Covered Bazaar, the name of which associates with the gold. In this documentary, as the story of The Covered Bazaar is told by a sherbet maker who marched the bazaar up and down by taking 40.000 steps everyday, the artisanship and traditions inherited from the craftsmen to their apprentices for centuries are also emphasized.

A documentary describing the architectural, cultural and social aspects of Kula, a small town in the Aegean region which, with its historic houses and traditional Turkish architecture, is a veritable "museum". The film also aims to create a public awareness of the need to preserve such houses. This film was made in conjunction with students of the School of Journalism and Broadcasting of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University.