Biyograficim
İncir Reçeli 2

Fig Jam 2 (İncir Reçeli 2) (translated)

Movie · 2014 · 3 people

Aytaç Ağırlar wrote and directed İncir Reçeli 2 (Fig Jam 2), a 2014 Turkish film that follows up the 2010 film İncir Reçeli. Combining drama, romance and comedy, it opened on October 17, 2014 and was re-released on August 29, 2025. It runs about 99 minutes and was produced for BKM Film by Arda Erkmen and Necati Akpınar. Halil Sezai and Şafak Pekdemir share the lead roles.

Metin, the musician who lost his beloved Duygu in the first film, is still in mourning. Though he made İncir Reçeli, he has lost his desire for life and spends his evenings singing his own songs at a bar. His path unexpectedly crosses with Gizem, who starts work as a bartender there. Both have known similar pain, and a new story between them becomes possible. Halil Sezai plays Metin and Şafak Pekdemir plays Gizem. Sinan Çalışkanoğlu (Erol), Tuğba Sarıünal (Aslı), Ahmet Uz (Fikret) and Hakan İlçin (the bar owner) are also in the cast, and the director himself plays a travesti character.

The first film found a limited audience on its early-2011 release, then spread by word of mouth, earned a re-release. The sequel's music is by Tamer Çıray and Halil Sezai, and Müslüm Gürses lends his voice to one song.

DirectorAytaç Agirlar
Production companyBKM Film
Fig Jam 2 (İncir Reçeli 2) Fig Jam 2 (İncir Reçeli 2) Fig Jam 2 (İncir Reçeli 2)

Reactions

You can pick up to 3 reactions.

Cast

Şafak Pekdemir Şafak Pekdemir Actor · 38 years old Onur Bilge Onur Bilge Actor · 43 years old Halil Sezai

More from this director

Through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The hardest question for a sequel is how it justifies its existence. Fig Jam 2 answers with an intriguing layer: Metin is a character who turned his own loss into a film called Fig Jam, so in a sense the story is about someone living in the shadow of the first film. Yet without developing that meta layer enough, it leans on a more familiar romantic-drama template about grief and a new beginning. The meeting of two people who have suffered similar pain risks repeating the emotional register of the first film and, in my view, hovers on the edge of melodrama. Aytaç Ağırlar's direction is sincere, but the unexpectedness that made the first film special is replaced here by a more predictable sentimentality.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

This is not a children's film. It is a heavy, sad story about grief, loss and a new love, with a bar at its centre. Little ones would get bored and would not really follow the subject. Suitable for older teenagers and adults. It could be watched with a family member who enjoys emotional films, but anyone hoping for a cheerful family evening should pick something else.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The first Fig Jam's journey is an audience story in its own right: a film that opened in limited release, then spread by word of mouth and earned a re-release. It is one of the rare cases showing that box office and distribution do not always have the last word, and that a community of viewers can rescue a film. The making of a sequel, and its re-release years later, also suggest this cult devotion lives on. Hearing Müslüm Gürses's voice in one of the songs ties the film to the arabesk sensibility through which Turkey lives out separation and grief in music, but this time through a young musician singing his own songs in a bar.

These are not reader reviews: they are short editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives with AI assistance. Reader reviews are below.

Reviews (0)

Log in Log in to write a review.

Comments