G.O.R.A.

G.O.R.A. (full title G.O.R.A.: A Space Movie) is a Turkish science-fiction comedy written by and starring Cem Yılmaz and directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak. Filming began in 2002, and the film opened in November 2004. It drew about four million viewers and was one of the most expensive productions in Turkish cinema. Sequels followed with A.R.O.G (2008) and Arif V 216 (2018).

Arif is a shrewd young man who sells carpets in a small town. Foreign customers who walk into his shop turn out to be aliens; Arif is abducted and taken to a planet called GORA. True to character, he looks for ways to escape and runs into love instead. The cast includes Özge Özberk, Ozan Güven, Rasim Öztekin, Özkan Uğur, Şafak Sezer and Cezmi Baskın. The film parodies popular Hollywood titles such as The Matrix and Star Wars while drawing on local films like Turist Ömer Uzayda in an absurdist comedy.

Production fell to TürkFilmi, owned by the Uzan family, and to Sorak. When the state seized the family's banks, the film came under the deposit insurance fund's control and its release was delayed; BKM bought it through Yılmaz and could release it. Ozan Çolakoğlu composed the music and Sagopa Kajmer wrote the closing song.