Black Dogs Barking

Black Dogs Barking (Turkish: Kara Köpekler Havlarken) is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Er Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixed up with the mob in pursuit of his dream of running his own car park.

A naive young man without any special training or expertise, he likes to feed pigeons on the rooftop of the building he lives in.

Selim and Çaça work for a man they refer to as Usta, running car parks in the ritzy neighborhood on the other side of the road.

[4] After postponing its much anticipated release for months, the film opened across Turkey on March 19, 2010 (2010-03-19).

[2] Emrah Güler, writing in Turkish Daily News, states that the film "delves into a recurring theme in Turkish cinema for the last couple of years, the existential angst faced by second-generation men whose families have migrated to Istanbul in the hopes of better lives," and recommends it to those "who are curious about the hype surrounding Turkish cinema's answer to Martin Scorsese and Guy Ritchie," but not to those "who are bored by the recurring theme.