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Bay Okan was born on 18 August 1942 in Istanbul, Turkey. He is an actor and director, known for The Yellow Mercedes (1992), Otobüs (1975) and Umut Üzümleri (2013).- Director
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Demirkubuz dropped out of high school and started working in a textile workshop. He then worked as a street vendor for some time. After the 1980 coup d'état, he was imprisoned without trial for three years at the age of 17 for alleged communist activities and was tortured.
At the time, he was studying Communications Engineering at Istanbul University. Following his graduation, he became involved with movie making. After working as an assistant director, he established his own production company called "Mavi Film". Uncompromising and fiercely independent, Demirkubuz controls almost every aspect of his films, making few concessions to prevailing trends.
He started in the movie business as the assistant of director 'Zeki Okten' in 1986 and made his first film, "C Blok" in 1994. He was able to manage his projects with very low budgets due to the experience he gained while working as an assistant.
Some of his films are "Masumiyet" (1997), which was shown at Venice Film Festival and "Ücüncü Sayfa" (1999), also shown at many international film festivals like Locarno and Rotterdam. The films "Yazgi (2001) and "Itiraf" (2001) included in his "Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales" trilogy [written by Zeki Demirkubuz] were shown at Cannes Film Festival's "Uncompetitive section". He made "Bekleme Odasi" in 2003.
Demirkubuz refers to Dostoevsky in his cinematographic mentality. His scenarios grow on the ethical dilemmas of the human condition. He usually uses basic concepts such as love, passion, self-sacrifice, and the absurdity of life and death.
Zeki Demirkubuz's "Kader" won "The Best Film" prize at 2006 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.- Director
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Emin Alper (born in Karaman, Turkey) is a Turkish filmmaker and historian. His directorial debut, Beyond the Hill won the Caligari Film Prize in the 62nd Berlinale and Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His second feature Frenzy won the Special Jury Prize after premiering in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.
During his university years, Emin Alper was an active member of the cinema club at Bogaziçi University, spending most of his time with friends thinking on and discussing about cinema. They would organize seminars with the prominent filmmakers of their time, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Zeki Demirkubuz. He began writing scripts and film reviews. Together with his friends, he published the film magazine "Görüntü." It was during his university years that his lifelong love for cinema shaped, persuading him to pursue filmmaking as a career.
After graduating from the university with a degree in Economics, Alper furthered his Academic work, receiving his PhD in Modern Turkish History. Emin Alper subsequently began teaching at the Department of Social Science at Istanbul Technical University. He wrote on cinema and politics at several magazines including Tarih ve Toplum, Birikim, Mesele and Altyazi.
Gaining experience from watching other filmmakers and taking role in their short films, Emin Alper went on to make his first independent short films, The Letter in 2005, and Rifat in 2006; the latter won Best Short Film at the Bucharest International Film Festival (2008) and the Special Audience Award at the !F Istanbul International Film Festival.
His breakthrough came in 2012, with his directorial debut, ''Beyond the Hill, "about the repressed violence and projections of a Turkish family on holiday."
Following his first feature, Alper made his second feature, Frenzy (2014), a psycho-social drama/thriller about a society" brought to heel by its fear of terrorism" in which two brothers - one a paroled convict secretly recruited to ferret out terrorists by examining the contents of trash bins, the other hired to kill stray dogs - are sucked into a whirl of state-sponsored distrust. Frenzy was profoundly timely in its subject matter, loudly echoing the current turmoil of politics in Turkey and the Middle East. Alper says of Frenzy, 'It shows how the political system turns "little men" into the cogs of its violent mechanism by providing them with authority and the instruments of violence, which in the end turn against them and lead to their destruction.'
Premiering in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, Frenzy was awarded the Special Jury Prize. The film won the Jury Grand Prize at the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Both Beyond the Hill and Frenzy were chosen as the Best Turkish Film by the Turkish Critics' Association in 2012 and 2015.- Director
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Özcan Alper (b. 1975 Hopa, Artvin) is a Turkish director and screenwriter.
He was born in Hopa district of Artvin. He graduated from Trabzon High School. In 1992, he started at Istanbul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. In 1996, he entered Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History of Science and graduated in 2003.
Since 1996, he has participated in cinema workshops in places such as Mesopotamia Cultural Center, Nazim Culture House (now Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center).
Since 2000, he worked as an assistant in various motion pictures, including Yesim Ustaoglu's films.
The short "Momi" is the first film shot in "Hemsin". "Tokai City'de Melankoli ve Rapsodi/Melancholy and Rhapsody in Tokai City" is a documentary shot in Japan.
"Bir Bilimadamiyla Zaman Enleminde Yolculuk / A Journey through the Time Latitude with a Scientist" is his other documentary.
Alper won awards in many festivals with his first feature-length film, "Sonbahar/Autumn", which was released on December 19, 2008.
While the successful director will meet with the audience with the "Asiklar bayrami" he made for Netflix in 2022, he will compete with the film "Karanlik Gece" at the Antalya Film Festival.- Director
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Pelin Esmer, writer&director of both fiction and documentary films studied sociology and afterwards moved on to cinema. She established her film company Sinefilm and since 2001 she has made her independent films The Collector, The Play, 10 to 11, Watchtower, Something Useful and Queen Lear. A feature documentary The Play made its international premier in San Sebastian Film Festival. It has been screened over 50 festivals around the world and received many awards including "The Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award" in Tribeca Film Festival. Her first fiction 10 to 11 was one of the six chosen projects by Cannes Film Festival's Résidence du Cinéfondation in Paris where she worked on the script. An official selection of San Sebastian Film Festival, 10 to 11 received many awards in various festivals around the world and was released in cinemas in Turkey, France and Germany. Her second fiction Watchtower which was premiered in Toronto and Rotterdam Film Festival has been screened in many countries and five different states of USA as part of the Caravanserai Program. Something Useful received the best screenplay award in Tallinn International Film Festival besides FIPRESCI, best director, best screenplay, best actress awards in Turkey. In 2018, Pelin Esmer has been invited to Berlin by DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program where she has developed her new documetary film Queen Lear. She will be one of the artist in residency of Camargo Foundation in Cassis-France in the fall of 2019 where she is going to be working on her new script.- Director
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Handan Ipekçi was born on 9 May 1956 in Ankara, Turkey. She is a director and writer, known for Büyük Adam Küçük Ask (2001), Babam Askerde (1995) and Diyet (2023).- Director
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After making several award - winning shorts in Turkey, Yesim Ustaoglu made her feature film debut with 1994's 'The Trace' (Iz). The film was presented at numerous international festivals, including Moscow and Gotenburg and won the Best Film Award at Istanbul Film Festival. Yesim Ustaoglu received international recognition for her 1999 film, 'Journey To The Sun' (Günese Yolculuk) which competed in Berlinale and received the Blue Angel Award (Best European Film) and the Peace Prize before sweeping the Istanbul Film Festival by winning Best Film, Best Director, the FIPRESCI Prize and the Audience Award. Launching her own production company Ustaoglu Film in 2003, her third film, 'Waiting for the Clouds' (Bulutlari Beklerken) premiered in 2014 Berlinale Panorama and was awarded NHK Sundance - International Film-maker's Award. Ustaoglu's fourth feature, 'Pandora's Box' (Pandora'nin Kutusu) premiered in Toronto (TIFF) and won Golden Shell for the Best Film and Silver Shell for the Best Actress Award in San Sebastian FF. Her fifth feature 'Somewhere in Between' (Araf, 2012) premiered in Orrizonti section in 69th Venice FF, won Best Film Award in Abu Dhabi FF and Split Mediterranean FF, as well as Best Performance in Moscow, Tokyo and Pune Film Festivals. Her latest film 'Clair Obscur' (Tereddut).- Producer
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. There, he developed a strong interest in image, entering the photography club at the university. This is also where he fed his taste for visual arts and classical music, by means of the vast resources of the faculty librarians. He also began to take film classes and attend screenings at the Film Society, which reinforced his love of cinema, born years earlier in the dark rooms of the Istanbul Cinematheque. After his 1985 Graduation, he traveled to London and Kathmandu, which allowed him to take the opportunity to reflect upon his future. He returned to Turkey for his 18 months military service and at that moment decided to dedicate his life to cinema. Thereafter, he studied film at the University Mimar Sinan, and worked as a professional photographer to make a living. After 2 years, he decided to abandon his studies to practice. He started with acting, in a short film directed by his friend Mehmet Eryilmaz, while helping with the technical production process. In late 1993, he began shooting his first short film, Koza. The film was screened at Cannes in May 1995 and became the first Turkish short film to be selected for competition. Three full-length feature films followed -the "provincial trilogy": Kasaba (1997), Mayis Sikintisi (1999) and Uzak (2002). In all of these films, Ceylan took on just about every technical role himself: the cinematography, sound design, production, editing, writing and direction. Uzak won the Grand Prix and Best Actor (for the two main actors) in Cannes in 2003, making Ceylan an internationally recognized director. Continuing his tour of festivals after Cannes, Uzak won no less than 47 awards, including 23 international prizes, and thus became the most awarded film in the history of Turkish cinema. His subsequent films were all awarded at Cannes : Iklimler won the FIPRESCI Prize in 2006, Üç Maymun won Best Director in 2008 and Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da won the Grand Prix in 2011. In 2014, his seventh feature film Kis Uykusu won the Palme d'Or as well as the FIPRESCI prize.- Director
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Erden Kiral was born on 10 April 1942 in Gölcük, Turkey. He was a director and writer, known for On Fertile Lands (1980), The Blue Exile (1993) and Hakkari'de Bir Mevsim (1983). He was married to Tezer Özlü. He died on 17 July 2022 in Antalya, Turkey.- Director
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Seyfi Teoman was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1977. After studying economics at Bogazici University in Istanbul, he worked as assistant director in various short films and advertisements. He lived in Lodz in Poland for two years, studying film directing at Polish National Film School where his tutor and supervisor was acclaimed Polish director Mariusz Grzegorzek. He shot his graduation movie, Apartman (Apartment) in 2004 which has been officially screened in many international film festivals. His feature debut, Tatil Kitabi (Summer Book), was the only Turkish production accepted to the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. After its world premiere at Berlinale's Forum section, the film won Best Film and Fipresci Prize at the 27th Istanbul International Film Festival. His second feature, Bizim Buyuk Carsizligimiz (Our Grand Despair), is selected for the competition at Berlinale 2011. Before his death he was working on his third feature, which had been provisionally titled as Evliya (Saints).- Director
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Tolga Karacelik is one of the promising new generation Turkish directors who is known for his own unique style.
After receiving law degree in Turkey he studied film in New York City. He had been writing short stories and poetry.
I addition to writing and directing five short films that have been shown and won awards at various festivals domestically and internationally, he wrote and directed music videos and served as director of photography on a documentary feature.
His award-winning feature debut Toll Booth has screened at numerous prestigious festivals. He was one of the youngest directors to win Golden Orange (best first film, best actor and best cinematography), a prestigious Turkish Film Festival, where most of the Turkish directors show their first works.
Toll Booth was selected as the opening film for Global Film Initiatives Global Lens 2012 series and had been screened more than 35 cities across the US and Canada and in institutions like Smithsonian and MOMA, New York.
His second feature IVY had premiered in Sundance and continues its festival circuit at prestigious festivals and acclaimed highly by the critics all around the world.
His next film Butterflies won The Binger award at Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop and had been selected for Sundance Lab and CineLink Co-Production Market.
Butterflies won the Grand Jury Award for World Cinema - Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival 2018.
Tolga Karacelik, whose poems and stories have been published in various magazines, sometimes continues to work freely as a short film director and cinematographer, and also takes part in some productions as a producer, screenwriter and actor.
Tolga Karacelik got married to actress Tugçe Altug on October 3, 2018 in Bozcaada.
In 2022, he directed the Netflix project Yakamoz S-245 series.- Producer
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Turkish football player, film director, actor, editor, screenwriter, producer, lecturer and Honorary Professor.
He graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1937. In 1938, he dropped out of Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in the third year of his education.
Ün changed the language of cinema by going beyond the melodrama mould with the film Üc Arkadas in 1958. The film was considered one of the best films of Turkish cinema. Thanks to his success in this film, he was invited to the Film Friends Association and became one of the important directors of Turkish cinema. During this period, he started to live with Fatma Girik and the couple's relationship continued for life.
In 1960, he started the era of child stars in Turkish cinema history with the film Aysecik. After his success with Aysecik, his partnership with Arsavir Alyanak at Yakut Film ended and he founded Ugur Film.
In 1990, he made his first self-financed film, Tüm Kapilar Kapaliydi, in which he turned to a subject and cinematography not seen in his previous films. This was followed by the films Gün Ortasinda Karanlik and Zikkimin Kökü, which received many awards. The last film he directed was Sinema Bir Mucizedir (2005), but due to his illness he could not complete the film and handed it over to Tunc Basaran.
He worked as a lecturer at Mimar Sinan University Cinema-TV Department.
Film worker Memduh Ün died on 16 October 2015 at the age of 95 in Bodrum where he was being treated.- Director
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Turkish film director, screenwriter, academician. Who directed movies from 1948 to 1990. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye ("Strike the Whore") an adaptation of Halide Edip Adivar's book of the same title. He became one of the pioneers of the period in the "Director Generation". His 1970s trilogy comprising The Bride, The Wedding and The Sacrifice, is considered his masterpiece. Afterwards, he withdrew from movie making instead directing adaptations for TV.
Akad was born on September 2, 1916. Following his secondary education at French Jeanne d'Arc School and Galatasaray High School, he studied finance at Istanbul Economy and Commerce Higher School. Beside his occupation as financial advisor at Sema Film company, he wrote articles on theatre and cinema. After directing more than 100 movies, Akad taught twenty years at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts.
He died on 19 November 2011 at the age of 95 in Istanbul.- Producer
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Ilksen Basarir was born on 3 November 1978 in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a producer and director, known for Love in Another Language (2009), Atlikarinca (2010) and Bir Varmis Bir Yokmus (2015).- Director
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In 2011 Ergüven was invited to attend the Cannes Film Festivals Atelier to help develop her project, The Kings. While there she met fellow director Alice Winocour who was there to develop her first feature film Augustine. After Ergüven was unable to find financing for her film Winocour suggested she write a more intimate piece leading the two to begin work on the script for Mustang.
Her debut film Mustang premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. It later played in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards It was later shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Ergüven was also nominated for multiple César Awards, winning the César Award for Best First Feature Film as well as the César Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Ergüven was the first person surprised by the film's overwhelmingly positive welcome. "During Cannes I was telling this joke: Tuesday we'll show the movie, Wednesday we'll talk to the press, Thursday we'll be old news. But that Thursday never came! We're still Wednesday and it's just getting more intense.", she says.- Writer
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Yavuz Özkan was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer who was active in the Turkish film industry from the 1970s to the 2000s. He is best known for his films that deal with social and political issues, and for his collaborations with some of the leading actors of Turkish cinema.
Özkan began his career as an assistant director on several films in the early 1970s. He made his directorial debut in 1975 with the film "Anayurt Oteli" (The Hotel Anatolia), which was a critical and commercial success. The film won several awards at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, including the award for Best Film.
Özkan went on to direct a number of successful films, including "Nehir" (The River, 1977), "Yol" (The Road, 1982), and "Hakkari'de Bir Mevsim" (A Season in Hakkari, 1983). These films are known for their realistic portrayal of Turkish society and for their strong political messages.
Özkan was also a prolific screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for many of his own films, as well as for films directed by other directors. He was a member of the Writers' Union of Turkey and was awarded the union's Grand Prize for his screenplay for the film "Yol".
Özkan was a leading figure in Turkish cinema for over three decades. His films were widely acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, and he won numerous awards for his work. He was a committed and passionate filmmaker who used his films to explore important social and political issues.
In addition to his work in film, Özkan was also active in theater and television. He directed several plays and television series, and he was a member of the board of directors of the Istanbul State Theater.
Özkan passed away in 2019 at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife and two children. His legacy lives on through his films, which continue to be screened and studied by film lovers around the world.- Director
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Ertem Egilmez was born on 18 February 1929 in Trabzon, Turkey. He was a director and producer, known for My Dear Brother (1973), Kalbimin Efendisi (1970) and Bir Millet Uyaniyor (1966). He died on 21 September 1989 in Istanbul, Turkey.- Producer
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Ahmet Boyacioglu was born in 1953 in Zonguldak, Turkey. He is a producer and director, known for Black and White (2010), Funeral (2001) and Paranin Kokusu (2018).- Director
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Born in 1964 in Famagusta, North Cyprus, Dervish Zaim graduated from Warwick University. He took a course in independent film production, organized in London by the Hollywood Film Institute. In 1995 his first novel won the prestigious "Yunus Nadi" literary prize in Turkey. Tabutta Rövasata (Somersault in a Coffin) is his debut as director and screenwriter.- Director
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Born in Istanbul, Reha Erdem began his studies in History at Bogazici University in Istanbul. He graduated from Cinema Department of Paris 8 University. He obtained his M.A. in Plastic Arts at the same university. He shot his first feature-length film Oh Moon in 1989 as a French-Turkish co-production. He shot Run for Money in 1999, Mommy, I'm Scared in 2004, Times and Winds in 2006, My Only Sunshine, Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian co-production, in 2008 and Kosmos in 2009. His latest two films are Jîn (2012) and Singing Women (2013), Turkish-French-German co-production. He wrote all of his films except for Mommy I'm scared, for which he was one of the co-writers. He also has short films and directed a theater play, Maids (Les Bonnes) by Jean Genet. He is now working on two new projects.- Director
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Atif Yilmaz Batibeki was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. After finishing high school in Mersin, he attended the Law School of Istanbul University. Because of his interest in arts, he dropped out of Law School and entered the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. After graduating from the Academy, he did some painting works in workshops. His education in painting helped him when he was directing his movies, as he once remarked. In the beginning, he worked as a film critic, made paintings and wrote film scripts to earn a living. After co-directing two movies as an assistant director to Semih Evin in 1950, his directing career began with the film Kanli Feryat (The Bloody Cry). In 1960, he established his film company "Yerli Film" with the actor Orhan Günsiray.
The most important movies in his filmography were: Hickirik (The Sob), Alageyik (The Fallow Deer), Suclu (The Guilty One), Seni Kaybedersem (If I Lose You), Yaban Gülü (The Wild Rose), Kesanli Ali Destani (Kesanli Ali's Epic), Tacsiz Kral (The Crownless King), Topragin Kani (Blood of the Earth), Olum Tarlasi (Death Field), Utanc (The Shame), Zavallilar (The Poor People), Selvi Boylum, Al Yazmalim (My Girl with the Red Scarf), Baskin (The Raid), Adak (The Sacrifice), Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Sip of Love), Adi Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye), Berdel, Düs Gezginleri (Walking After Midnight), Eylül Firtinasi (After the Fall) and Mine.
He made movies that were both fluent and had mainly social messages. Most of the themes of his movies were taboo when they were produced. Particularly "Mine" and "Her Name is Vasfiye" were both revolutionary at the time of their release with themes regarding sexuality and the reaction of society.
He never gave up making movies throughout his life and even in the time when the industry stopped filmmaking due to economic reasons.
Atif Yilmaz played an important role in the professional career of notable Turkish film directors like Halit Refig, Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören, Zeki Ökten and Ali Özgentürk.
During the Antalya Film Festival in September 2005, he was admitted to hospital with gastro-intestinal complaints. He died on 5 May 2006 in Istanbul.- Director
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Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage. He began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. His collaboration with Wueste Film also dates from this time. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, "Sensin - You're The One!" ("Sensin - Du bist es!"), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. His second short film, "Weed" ("Getürkt", 1996), received several national and international festival prizes. His first full length feature film, "Short Sharp Shock" ("Kurz und schmerzlos", 1998) won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Director) in 1998. His other films include: "In July" ("Im Juli", 2000), "Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren" (2001), "Solino" (2002), the Berlinale Golden Bear-winner and winner of the German and European Film Awards "Head-On" ("Gegen die Wand", 2003), and "Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul" (2005).- Director
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Halit Refig, Turkish filmmaker, film critic and theoretician and an intellectual was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1934 to an industrial family. He attended Sisli Terakki High School and briefly attended Robert College Engineering Dept. During his military service he started making documentaries in Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka with a Super 8 camera. In 1957 he started the Turkish Film Review (Sinema Dergisi) with fellow film critic Nijat Ozon. Later he assisted director Atif Yilmaz in two films. In 1961 he directed his first feature, Yasak ask (1961). His approach to filmmaking was influenced by his friendship with the famous Turkish novelist Kemal Tahir. This collaboration gave fruit to Four Women in the Harem, which Refig scripted and later production of Yorgun Savasci (1979) in 1979, the most controversial film ever made in Turkish film history. Refig defended it and published a theory of national cinema, which he named Ulusal Sinema (national cinema). Later he revised his theory and called his work ATUT (Asiatic Mode of Production) cinema or Halk Sinemasi (Cinema of the People). Refig collected his articles on national cinema in a volume; Ulusal Sinema Kavgasi (Fight for a national Cinema). Refig and his fellow filmmakers like Metin Erksan and Lütfi Ö. Akad made nationalist films until late 1960s. In 1974, the newly established Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) commissioned Refig to make a literary adaptation of a Turkish novel of his choice. The result was _Ask-i memnu (1974) (TV)_ (Forbidden Love) which was hailed as the first Turkish TV mini series. In 1975 Refig joined fellow filmmakers to establish the Turkish Cinema and TV Institute. In 1977 he was invited to teach at University of Wisconsin where he made a Victorian period drama, Intercessors. In 1979 he was invited once again by the TRT to make Yorgun Savasci (Tired Warrior) Kemal Tahir's controversial novel. Described as the ultimate national cinema piece, the production and later on burning of the negatives by the military government in 1982 of Tired Warrior. The film was later aired in 1992 from a restored 1 inch tape. After this Refig made popular films for Turker Inanoglu. This gave Refig the opportunity to realize his smaller and more personal projects like Hanim (Madame). After nearly a decade Refig made Köpekler Adasi (1997) (Island of Dogs). The film received mixed reviews. As a filmmaker he made over 50 popular and personal films in Turkish film industry since 1961. As a film critic and theoretician he produced a significant body of film criticism and literally created a theory of national cinema, one that predates the theories of third cinema initiated in Latin American and African countries. Finally, as an intellectual he practiced what he preached. Refig focused on national and cultural identity in the young Turkish Republic, critiquing the westernization and nationalist ideologies in Turkey and favoring the traditional values and the Ottoman past. Refig deconstructed the Republican Kemalist ideology and the position of the Kemalist intellectual in Turkish society, discussed east-west and rural-urban tension in a rapidly changing social environment and the position of women in defining the new Turkish national identity. His work is also influenced by the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung's idea of collective consciousness. Refig likes applying a dialectical intellectual montage and German expressionist framing. Since 1975 Refig has taught at the Cinema and TV Institute of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey.- Director
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Serif Gören was born on 14 October 1944 in Ksanthi, Greece. He is a director and editor, known for Yol (1982), Endise (1974) and Derman (1983).- Writer
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Yavuz Turgul was born in Istanbul, 1946. He worked as journalist for many years. In 1976 he started to write scripts with the support of Ertem Egilmez. His first directing experience came with the movie Fahriye Abla, in 1984. He worked with famous Turkish actor Sener Sen in so many movies. Turgul is one of the best directors in Turkey and he is still working on new movie projects.- Cinematographer
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Ilhan Arakon was born on 22 July 1916 in Adrianople, Ottoman Empire [now Edirne, Turkey]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Garipler adasi (1955), Efe aski (1948) and Efsuncu baba (1950). He died on 3 February 2006.- Director
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Serdar Akar was born in 1964 in Ankara, Turkey. He is a director and writer, known for Gemide (1998), Dar Alanda Kisa Paslasmalar (2000) and At the Bar (2007).- Director
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He is a Turkish-Italian director, screenwriter and writer. In 1976, he first went to Perugia Foreigners University in Italy, learned Italian for a year, and then transferred to Rome La Sapienza University to study cinema. After completing his education there, he went to Accademia Navona and Accademia d'Arte Dramatica schools to study art history, costume and theater direction and took lessons from Silvio D'Amico. During this period, he worked with Julien Beck in various positions on the European tour of The Living Teather. In 1982, he was assistant director to Massimo Troisi in the film Scusate il Ritardo, and later to Maurizio Ponzi in the film Son Contento. Ferzan Özpetek worked as an assistant director for nearly 15 years with different directors such as Ricky Tognazzi, Lamberto Bava, Francesco Nuti, Sergio Citti, Giovanni Veronesi and Marco Risi.
American singer Madonna stated that Ferzan Özpetek was "a genius" in an interview with a television program. Özpetek received congratulations from names such as John Travolta and Andy Garcia after the screening of his 2009 film, Serseri Mayinlar, at the opening of the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Ferzan Özpetek served as the jury president of the committee consisting of actors Hülya Kocyigit, Zuhal Olcay, Aytac Arman, Kenan Isik and director Nuri Bilge Ceylan at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival held in 2005.
In 2007, he was a jury member at the 75th Venice Film Festival.- Director
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He began filmmaking with directing documentaries in year 2000. He made his first fiction film Wrong Rosary (Uzak Ihtimal) in 2009 with which he won several national and international awards including Rotterdam Film Festival's Golden Tiger Award and Istanbul Film Festival's Best Director award. His second film Yozgat Blues was finished in 2013 and premiered at San Sebastian Film Festival. The Announcement (Anons) is his third film.- Director
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Çagan Irmak is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya (2004-2005) and Asmali Konak (2002-2004), and for the hit films Alone (2008) and My Father and My Son (2005), for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director.- Director
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He was born on 27 April 1964 in Ankara, graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Communication. His professional career started in TRT between years 1987 - 1990 as assistant cameraman and 1990 - 1995 as a cameraman. From 1995 on, he has worked as DOP and Director. He has directed numerous commercials, music videos, TV shows, documentaries and feature films in Böcek Yapim, the production company he has incorporated in February 1998.
His feature film directorial debut is Vizontele (2001) that he co-directed with Yilmaz Erdogan and marks a new era in Turkish cinema as the first film passing 3 million local admissions. His second film the sci-fi comedy G.O.R.A. (2004) brought him another record, being the first film that surpassed 4 million local admissions. His next feature Exam (2006) is an edgy youth comedy criticizing the educational system which also features Jean-Claude Van Damme in its cast. His fourth film Yahsi Bati (2009) pioneers in the genre of Turkish Western Comedy. His latest film Love Likes Coincidences (2011), the sensational romantic drama has been received with great attention nationally and internationally and attracted more than 2,5 million admissions...- Writer
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Tolga Ornek started his career writing, producing and directing the award-winning documentaries ATATURK (1998), MOUNT NEMRUD: THE THRONE OF THE GODS (2000), THE HITTITES (2003) and GALLIPOLI (2005) all of which have been distributed internationally to great critical acclaim. GALLIPOLI was the fifth highest grossing film in Turkey in 2005 and has been theatrically released in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In recognition of his documentary, Tolga was awarded an Order of Australia honorary medal by the Australian government.
In 2008, he co-wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, CARS OF THE REVOLUTION, based on the true story of the production of the first Turkish car in 1961. The film received critical acclaim and has won many international awards. Tolga's next film THE LOSERS CLUB which he co-wrote, produced and directed, was released in March 2011. Inspired by a cult, irreverent radio show from the 90's, the film, upon its release, became a box office and cult phenomenon and has been listed as one of the best Turkish films ever produced. Ornek's third film, which he wrote, directed and produced, LABYRINTH, a present-day espionage thriller supported by the European film fund, Eurimages, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Germany's HessenInvestFilm, was released in 2012 in Turkey and several territories in Europe and South America. LABYRINTH has received critical and popular acclaim and has paved the way for Tolga's move to Los Angeles where he's slated to begin THE SYNDICATE, a new international TV show he's created about a secret DEA Task force determined to take down an international heroin syndicate smuggling drugs from Afghanistan to Europe. In 2013, Tolga directed a romantic comedy based on his own experiences, YOUR STORY, and in 2016 he adapted and directed the Turkish version of the Mexican hit INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED.
Tolga has written, produced and directed ten films across a wide range of genres in very diverse locations such as Turkey, Egypt, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Tolga has lived in the US for more than 14 years in Rhode Island, Florida, Washington DC, New York as well as three years in London and two years in Italy. He lives in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Ezel Akay was born in 1961. He studied engineering at Bosphorus University, and theatre arts at Villanova University. He took part in many theatre productions as an actor and director before entering film production as a founding partner of IFR, where he was the director of more than 900 commercials. In 1996, he produced Dervis Zaim's feature film debut, "Somersault in a Coffin." The film won the highest number of international awards ever received by a Turkish film. Following this film, he was the executive producer of Yesim Ustaoglu's "Journey to the Sun", which also won many awards at international festivals including the prestigious Berlin Film Festival.- Director
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Born in 1929, Metin Erksan is one of the first Turkish filmmakers who saw cinema as an art form apart from a mass entertaining medium. Having studied art history in Istanbul University and being the brother of a little known director named Cetin Karamanbey, Erksan found himself at a very early age in a favourable position to combine film practice with aesthetic concerns. He worked as his elder brother's assistant for a short while and made his first debut with the script of "Binnaz" (1950) shot for Atlas Film Production Company. As many other filmmakers of the era who took the seventh art seriously, Erksan worked as a columnist in papers and film periodicals before engaging in active filmmaking. Metin Erksan's first film as a director that also heralded the unique and controversial place he would later occupy in the history of Turkish cinema was 'Asik Veysel' in "Hayati" (1952). Telling the dramatic life of the famous blind poet and song writer Asik Veysel, the film was later prohibited by the censure committe for showing the Turkish land as "infertile". With the advent of the social realist movement following the 1960 Coup d'Etat in Turkey, Erksan established himself as the "enfant prodige" of the post 60 era. Among the best films made during this period (including the Golden Bear Awarded Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer)) Erksan's work occupy a central place. His films are the fruits of an eclectic mixture of modernist themes (i.e. individual loneliness), metaphysics (the fight of good vs evil), and notions of Marxism. As other "engagé" directors of the era who did not only saw them as artists but also as "social engineers", Erksan played a major role in the foundation of the Union of Turkish Film Workers and the Association of Turkish Filmmakers. He was also Turkish Labour Party's candidate of Istanbul in the General Elections of 1965. But it is important to stress that Erksan's films are primarily praised for their aesthetic maturity which coexisted (until 1965) with a firm social commitment. Like other filmmakers who had to work within the narrow confines of the Turkish film industry, Erksan also shot commercial films to survive within the liberal minded Pine Tree (Yesilcam) system. After 1965, he gradually abandoned his social outlook and made either market oriented popular films or violent personal phantasies focusing on themes of loneliness and obsessive love. After shooting short films and serials for the Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) in the 70s, Erksan completely gave up filmmaking after 1983. He started to teach at Istanbul Mimar Sinan University and is still working there, mostly isolated from the current discussions on modern Turkish cinema.- Director
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Çagri Vila Lostuvali was born on 27 October 1978 in Edirne, Turkey. He is a director and assistant director, known for For My Son (2015), The Innocents (2020) and Suskunlar (2012).- Director
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Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world.
His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards.- Actor
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Güney and his work were almost entirely unknown outside of his homeland Turkey until his 1981 escape from imprisonment in Turkey and his "discovery" the following year at the Cannes Film Festival for his autobiographical screenplay for Yol (1982), the festival's grand prize winner. Born in 1937 in a village near the southern city of Adana, Güney studied law and economics at the universities in Ankara and Istanbul, but by the age of 21 he found himself actively involved in filmmaking. As Yesilcam, the Turkish studio system, grew in strength, a handful of directors, including Atif Yilmaz, began to use the cinema as a means of addressing the problems of the people. Only state-sanctioned melodramas, war films and play adaptations had previously played in Turkish theaters, but these new filmmakers began to fill the screens with more artistic, personal and relevant pictures of Turkish & Kurdish life. The most popular name to emerge from the Young Turkish Cinema was that of Yilmaz Güney. Güney was a gruff-looking young actor who earned the moniker "Cirkin Kral," or "the Ugly King." After apprenticing as a screenwriter for and assistant to Atif Yilmaz, Güney soon began appearing in as many as 20 films a year and became Turkey's most popular actor. More than a screen idol, Güney was a Kurdish who believed in the Kurdish people and their way of life, as well as being personally committed to social change. Although the early 1960s brought some political reform to Turkey, Güney was imprisoned in 1961 for 18 months for publishing a "communist" novel. The country's political situation and Güney's relationship with the authorities only became more tense in the ensuing years. Not content with his star status atop the Turkish film industry, Güney began directing his own pictures in 1965 and, by 1968, had formed his own production company, Güney Filmcilik. Over the next few years, the titles of his films mirrored the feelings of the Kurdish people: Hope (1970); Agit (1972); _Acý (1971)_; Umutsuzlar (1971). After 1972, however, Güney would spend most of his life in prison. Arrested for harboring anarchist students, Güney was jailed during preproduction on Zavallilar (1975) (completed in 1975), and before completing Endise (1974), which was finished in 1974 by Güney's assistant, Serif Gören. This was a cherished role that Gören would repeat over the next dozen years, directing several scripts that Güney wrote laboriously while behind bars. Released from prison in 1974 as part of a general amnesty, Güney was re-arrested that same year for shooting a judge. During this stretch of incarceration, his most successful screenplays were The Herd (1978) and Düsman (1980), both directed by Zeki Ökten. After escaping from prison in 1981 and fleeing to France, Güney was greeted at the Cannes Film Festival with a Palme d'Or for Yol (1982), again directed by Gören. It was not until 1983 that Güney resumed directing, telling a brutal tale of imprisoned children in his final film, The Wall (1983), made in France with the cooperation of the French government. At that point, Güney's name was unspeakable in his homeland; eleven of the films he directed or appeared in were confiscated and reportedly burned to ashes; even so much as writing about Güney was forbidden. Despite the great international success of Yol and Duvar, Güney was ultimately a Kurdish director for the Kurdish people; his final separation from his home audience must have been even more painful to endure than his years of imprisonment.- Director
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Cigdem Vitrinel was born on July 2, 1973 in Karabuk. She has a sister named Sebnem Vitrinel. His parents divorced when he was very young. He graduated from Eskisehir Anadolu University Cinema and Television Department.
She started his career as an assistant director for Mehmet Eryilmaz in documentary films. She also worked with the director, screenwriter, Ahmet Uluçay and Yesim Ustaoglu.
Her first movie; In 2012, she won the Best Director Award at the 48th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, where Müjde Ar was the head of the jury, with the movie Geriye Kalan. She wrote the script of this movie with his sister Sebnem Vitrinel and his daughter Nisan also acted as an actress.
Erdal Besikcioglu and Sezin Akbasogullari starred in the movie titled "Fakat Muzeyyen Bu Derin Bir Tutku", written and directed by Cigdem Vitrinel, and these two names are Erdinc Gülener, Ege Aydan, Harun Tekin, Hare Sürel, Derya Alabora, Baris Yalcin, Esra. Kizildogan and Idil Yenereslik.
Çigdem Vitrinel is married and has a daughter named Nisan Özcan (b.2004).- Director
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Ahmet Uluçay was born on 2 December 1954 in Kütahya, Turkey. He was a director and writer, known for Karpuz Kabugundan Gemiler Yapmak (2004), Minyatür Kosmos'da Rüya (1995) and Exorcise (2000). He died on 30 November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey.- Writer
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Seren Yüce was born in 1975 in Istanbul, Turkey. Seren is a director and assistant director, known for Majority (2010), Rüzgarda Salinan Nilüfer (2016) and The Edge of Heaven (2007). Seren has been married to Elif Bereketli since October 2022. They have one child.- Writer
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Born in 1965 in Turkey, Ünal wrote and directed nine feature films including Istanbul Tales (2004), Ara (2007), Gölgesizler (2008), The Voice (2010), The Pomegranate (2011), Serial Cook (2017). He has published five books: a collection of short stories, three novels and an autobiography. Themes related to class, as well as queer love, have often appeared in Ünal's films, in one way or the other, and in his latest, he elaborates such themes where they intersect and reveal various facades of power dynamics in a class-based society. Together with this, Love, Spells and All That is an elegant love story rendered through a fascinating visual language.
Love, Spells and All That (2019), the latest film of Ümit Ünal has currently gained significant international acclaim receiving awards including Audience Award in Inside Out Toronto, Best Screenplay in Outfest LA, Best Film in Mostra Fire Barcelona, and Best Narrative Film in aGliff/ Prism in 2021, in addition to the Best Film award it received in 2020 in Istanbul Film Festival among various other national awards.- Director
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Kazim Öz was born in 1973 in Tunceli, Turkey. He is a director and writer, known for Once Upon a Time (2014), Zer (2017) and Fotograf (2001).- Writer
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Deniz Akcay Katiksiz was born in 1981 in Izmir, Turkey. Deniz Akcay is a writer and director, known for Nobody's Home (2013), Bride of Istanbul (2017) and The Affair (2021).- Director
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Yagmur Taylan was born in 1966 in Bursa, Turkey. He is a director and producer, known for Vavien (2009), Wounded Love (2016) and The Magnificent Century (2011).- Director
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Durul Taylan was born in 1969 in Bursa, Turkey. He is a director and producer, known for Vavien (2009), Wounded Love (2016) and The Magnificent Century (2011).- Director
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Asli Özge was born in 1975 in Istanbul, Turkey. Asli is a director and writer, known for Köprüdekiler (2009), All of a Sudden (2016) and Faruk (2024).- Director
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Gürcan Keltek was born in 1973 in Izmir, Turkey. Gürcan is a director and producer, known for Meteors (2017), Gulyabani (2018) and Colony (2015).- Script and Continuity Department
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Senem Tüzen is a Turkish director, screenwriter, and producer. She graduated from the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. After co-founding Zela Film with her friends, Tüzen produced the travel documentary Adem'in Seyir Defteri (Adam's Travelogue), which aired on TRT Türk for 39 episodes between 2009 and 2012.
Her short films have won awards in many countries around the world. Her first feature film, Ana Yurdu (Homeland), which had its world premiere at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, was nominated for several awards at various other film festivals. The film won five awards at the 22nd Adana Golden Boll Film Festival and the FIPRESCI and NETPAC awards at the 31st Warsaw Film Festival.- Director
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Erdem Tepegoz was born in 1982. Graduated from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Economics. He studied film directing in Prague. He traveled all around the world for making many documentaries.
Zerre (The Particle), his first feature film that he had written and directed, won almost 23 awards including Best Film Golden St. George at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival and the movie was screened in 30 countries. The director received many praises from cinema critics on his social realist cinema.
He continues his master degree in the field of anthropology.- Director
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Ceylan, who was born on February 3, 1980 in Rize, is a graduate of Marmara University Faculty of Law. She started his career as a radio and television programmer in 2002 and made many radio programs. Ceylan, who also shot various short films, realized his first feature film project with the movie Kaygi which was released in 2017.- Director
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He was born in 1990 in Bolu/Turkey. He dropped out collage (Istanbul Marmara University) and followed his target. He has always dreamed about cinema. After a few short films and directing experiences, he wrote and directed his first feature medium length film "The First Day of Human History" in 2015 and his first feature "Snow" in 2017.- Director
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Born in Istanbul. She worked as copy writer, editor, producer for companies like ARD German TV (Istanbul Office) and BBA (Independent Press Agency Istanbul). She made music videos and promotion films as a director and producer. Her short films and documentaries have been screened in international film festivals like Toronto, Göteborg, Sarajevo and received a number of awards nationally and internationally. Her films were broadcast on TV Channels such as ARTE France/Germany, SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland) SBS (Australia). Her films have also participated in exhibitions such as "Call me Istanbul", ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany and 'Free Kick'- the 9th Istanbul Biennial. She is working on her first feature-length fiction film "Present Tense".- Director
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Mehmet Sertan Ünver was born in 1980. Mehmet Sertan is a director and editor, known for Kolej Havasi (2019), Blue (2017) and Oak & Scott: Pausing at High Speed (2014).- Director
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Murat Düzgünoglu was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey. Murat is a director and producer, known for Halef (2018), Neden Tarkovski Olamiyorum... (2014) and Köpekle Kurt Arasinda (2024).- Director
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Kaan Müjdeci is based in Berlin. His feature debut "Sivas" premiered on the 71st Venice Film Festival in the main competition and awarded with the Special Jury Prize. In 2015, Sivas was the official nominee from Turkey for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the 88th Academy Awards. His first exhibition "Iguana Tokyo Prologue" opened in Tokyo Art and Space in 2017. His second feature film "Iguana Tokyo" was selected to Cannes Cinefondation L'Atelier at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. The project is in post-production.- Producer
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Huseyin Karabey is regarded as one of Turkey's new directing talents at a time when the independent film scene in Turkey is gaining recognition and Turkish films are receiving a wider distribution worldwide. In the 1990's Karabey was heavily involved in the Democracy Movement and these experiences have informed much of his subsequent film work. His determination to expose human rights violations through the film was motivated both by his experiences in prison and his confrontations with the state when he tried to capture and explain human rights abuses on camera. Karabey entered the Cinema-TV department of the Fine Art Faculty of Marmara University and graduated in 2001. Karabey is committed to making independent films that tell fresh and first-hand stories from his region. His documentary films and films have been selected for festivals worldwide and picked up various awards. See below. "Gitmek - My Marlon and Brando", his first feature film, was selected for 37th Rotterdam International Film Festival and had its North American premiere at 6th New York Tribeca International Film (Best Director Award). To this date, the film has been screened in 36 international film festivals and won numerous awards. He was involved as Artistic Director in the production of an Omnibus project entitled Do not Forget me Istanbul. His last movie "Come to my voice" had its world premiere in Berlinale 2014 and won many awards including Best film in Mar Del Plata FF Argentina, the Best Balkan film in Sofia FF. His new project Hamarat Apartment selected to No borders/ IFP and Cinelink in Sarajevo.- Director
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Born in 1980, Istanbul. He is not only a director but a producer as well. He became known to festival programmers with his very first feature-length movie, the co-directed documentary On The Way to School (Iki Dil Bir Bavul, 2009). Focusing on a lonely Turkish teacher in a remote Kurdish village, the film received support from the Sundance Institute and the Jan Vrijman Fund. In addition to screening at top film festivals, it was a hit with Turkish audiences. His feature debut Voice of My Father (Babamin Sesi, co-director Zeynel Dogan), which also unfolds in a Kurdish setting, was selected for the main competition at the 2012 Rotterdam International Film Festival and won several festival prizes. Stone (Tas), the director's second feature, received support from the Karlovy Vary IFF when it was selected for last year's Works in Progress.- Actor
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Arif Onur Saylak (born 12 May 1977, Ankara) is a Turkish actor and director. He is also a lecturer at Kadir Has University in the field of film and drama.
He was born in Ankara. He studied at the Middle East Technical University, Department of Physics.
He left the university and tried his luck in Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration, which is a completely different field.
Meanwhile, he started acting by joining the theater club of the university (Communication Faculty Theater Group). He took part in amateur theater plays. After that, he decided to continue the rest of his life as an actor and won the Bilkent University Theater Department. He was immediately accepted and focused entirely on acting. During his education at Bilkent University, he took part in several theater plays, including the "Getto" and "Üc Kurusluk Opera/Die Dreigroschenoper" plays at Ankara State Theatre, and Nazim Hikmet's "Herseye ragmen", at the Bilkent Theatre.
He played the character named "Cetin" in the TV series "Hisarbuselik".
He expanded his audience with the Code Name series. He also worked as a theater director at TED College. Due to her singing voice, she took part in the university choir and was interested in musical theater (Biedermann and Arsonists). He wrote lyrics for some theater plays. He presented a 13-episode youth program called Let's Go (2003), on TRT 2 television. He stepped into the world of cinema with the feature film "Sonbahar/Autumn", which was screened for the first time on 6 June 2008 within the scope of the 15. Altin Koza Film Festivali and also won the Best Film Award.
Later, he also took a role in the movie "Guz Sancisi". In 2009, she played the leading role in the movie "Denizden Gelen" directed by Nesli Cplgecen, which won the Yilmaz Güney Special Award.
He married Tuba Büyüküstün, an actress like himself, on July 28, 2011 in Paris, France.
He founded a company called B.i.t arts and entered the film industry. His wife Tuba Büyüküstün also acted in "Orman", her first short film experience.
Saylak, who will meet with cinema lovers in 2023 with the movie Boga Boga, worked with Hakan Günday in this movie as in his previous movie MORE.- Actor
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He spent his childhood in Ankara until he moved to Istanbul along with his family. His family is of Kurdish origin. In 1987, he dropped out of his civil engineering studies at Istanbul Technical University and joined the On Duty Theater Staff (Turkish: Nöbetçi Tiyatrosu) managed by Ferhan Sensoy. He also became chief screenwriter at Levent Kirca's long-running television sketch show, Olacak O Kadar. In 1988, he founded his own theatre company, Güldüsündürü, and staged a successful production of his self-penned Suleiman the Magnificent and Rambo (Turkish: Kanuni Sultan Süleyman and Rambo).- Director
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Born in Eskisehir in 1978, Aciktan received his undergraduate degree from Ankara University, Faculty Of Communication, Radio Tv and Cinema, in 2000.
During his studies he started shooting short films that later have been screened and awarded internationally. Ozan has worked as an assistant director in films and TV serials.
Following his undergraduate studies, between 2002 - 2004, Aciktan continued his studies in the department of director of photography in Lodz, Polish National Film School. After coming back to Istanbul in 2006, Aciktan received the best 2nd short fiction film award from Metro-Tursak Short film Contest, and he was granted to study in Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, in Ludwigsburg, Germany, focusing on script-writing and dramaturgy. The same year he attended Berlinale Talent campus.
He was awarded the "crystal apple", for "The Best Director", by Turkish Association of Advertising Agencies at the end of 2006 with the "Antalya Film Festival Spots" and he has received his second 'crystal apple' for the "The Best Director" with the "Ipragaz-the dog" spot, in July 2008.'- Director
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Özgür Dogan was born in 1978 in Mus, Turkey. Özgür is a producer and director, known for On the Way to School (2008), Babamin Sesi (2012) and Rüzgarda Salinan Nilüfer (2016).- Director
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Yüksel Aksu was born in 1966 in Mugla, Turkey. He is a director and actor, known for Dondurmam Gaymak (2006), Entelköy Efeköy'e Karsi (2011) and 61 Days (2016).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Çigdem Sezgin was born on 20 September 1972 in Istanbul, Turkey. She is an assistant director and director, known for Kasap Havasi (2015), Suna (2022) and Artik Sevmeyecegim (2000).- Director
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Levent Semerci is known for Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun (2009) and Ayhan Hanim (2014).- Director
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Inan Temelkuran was born on 3 August 1976 in Izmir, Turkey. He is a director and writer, known for Made in Europe (2008), Bornova Bornova (2009) and Siirt'in Sirri (2012).- Director
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Özer Kiziltan was born on 17 January 1963 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was a director and actor, known for Takva (2006), Beni Unutma (2011) and Sehrin Melekleri (2015). He died on 5 May 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey.- Director
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Reyan Tuvi is known for No Place for Tears (2017), In the Shadow of War and Love Will Change the Earth (2014).- Producer
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Burak Cevik (1993, Istanbul) founded Fol Cinema Society and curated experimental and art-house Film screenings. He was lecturer on Non-Fiction between 2018-2020 at Istanbul Bilgi University. His Films The Pillar of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019) and Forms of Forgetting (2023) premiered at Berlinale Forum. His video works have screened at various festivals.- Director
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After studying bio engineering at Ege University, he started making short films. In 2007, after studying film editing in Italy, where he went with an Erasmus scholarship, he returned to Turkey and started working in the cinema and television industry. He also continued to produce documentaries and short films. His first feature film Babamin Kanatlari (2015) premiered in the Main Competition section of the 51st Karlovy Vary Film Festival. His second film, Little Things (2019), which he also produced, was selected for the 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Main Competition section. Both of his films have received more than fifty awards at national and international festivals.- Producer
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Emre Yeksan was born in 1981 in Izmir, Turkey. Emre is a producer and director, known for The Gulf (2017), Yuva (2018) and Hosgeldin Lenin (2016).- Director
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He was born In 1964 Istanbul. He was graduated from Marmara UnIversIty FIne Art- CInema Tv department. He worked for TRT Istanbul tv between 1985-1994. SInce 1994 he Yönetmen hundereds of TVC's such as Coca-Cola, TurkIsh AIrlInes, P&G.. FILMOGRAPHY AYLA - 2017 "THE OFFICIAL ENTRY FROM TURKEY FOR THE 90th ACADEMY AWARDS-BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM"- Director
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Belma Bas was born in 1969 in Ordu, Turkey. Belma is a director and writer, known for Zefir (2010) and Poyraz (2006).- Actor
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Baris Atay was born on 22 September 1981 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Aden (2018), Eksik (2015) and Arka Siradakiler (2007).- Producer
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He was born in 1964, Konya, Beysehir. He completed his primary and secondary education in Beysehir. He graduated from Konya Selçuk University, Faculty of Education, Department of Physics in 1985. He worked in the advertising industry for many years. He has respectively worked as: Darkroom Technician, Media Officer, Copywriter and Creative Director. He directed more than three hundred commercials. He took part in nearly thirty campaigns as a creative director. In 1993, he was the scriptwriter and director of the Turkish-Russian-Uzbek co-production "Camp Number 5". This movie was released on TGRT. Director Filmography; Kan Kirmizi -2020 Birakin çocuk oynasin (Documentary -2018 Search Engine - 2016 Ah Yalan Dünyada-2015 Mahmut and Meryem - 2013 Mommo - My Sister - 2008 Number 5 Camp - 1993- Writer
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Ali Aydin was born on 25 September 1981 in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a writer and director, known for Mold (2012), Chronology (2019) and Crash (2018).- Producer
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Tomris Giritlioglu was born in 1955 in Adana, Turkey. She is a producer and writer, known for Mrs. Salkım's Diamonds (1999), 80. Adim (1996) and Suyun Öte Yani (1991).- Producer
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Turkish director Sinan Cetin founded Plato Films in 1986. Since then he has shot 11 feature films and has become one of the most famous and successful directors in Turkey. He has also directed and produced hundreds of commercials. Plato Film Prod. is now a creative pool for young people enamored of scriptwriting, directing, or post-production and allows a unique independence most film-makers only dream of.- Director
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Melisa Omer, born in Izmir in 1980, is a director and screenwriter. She graduated from Tufts University's Department of International Relations in Conflict Reconciliation and Peace. She worked as a photography assistant at Tufts University and took classes in theater directing, writing, video art, and acting. She is still doing her master's degree at Istanbul Bilgi University Cinema and Television Department and continues her studies in Istanbul.