https://burakcevik.com Burak Çevik Sat, 03 Aug 2024 11:59:03 +0000 https://burakcevik.com en https://burakcevik.com/Main-Page Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:28:44 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/Main-Page last update-14.06.2024 https://burakcevik.com/formsofforgetting Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:37:43 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/formsofforgetting <img width="5906" height="8268" width_o="5906" height_o="8268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/892c655d83f7a2a9bcb5944f14d492d926e296f4ea3e1681d56003d0cb6d32ac/Unutma_Bicimleri_Poster.png" data-mid="164890781" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/892c655d83f7a2a9bcb5944f14d492d926e296f4ea3e1681d56003d0cb6d32ac/Unutma_Bicimleri_Poster.png" /> Unutma Biçimleri Forms of Forgetting 2023, 70 min, Turkey, Turkish World Premiere: Berlinale Forum 2023 A couple who broke up 14 years ago find that they can't remember how they broke up when they meet again years later. Over time, memories and places have been mixed. Everything overlaps in memory. Forms of Forgetting is an exploration of how history is layered and rewritten over a couple. The film turns into a recall exercise on the axis of stories, dreams and memories that emerged as a result of the interviews with the couple. Some memories are remembered with the images taken, and some images are taken again thanks to the memories. Screenings- Nov 27th, @University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee / USA- October 22th, @Viennale, Vienna / Austria- October 3rd, @Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City / Mexico - June 17th, @Istanbul Modern, Istanbul / Turkey- May 12th, @Beldocs,&nbsp; Belgrade / Serbia- April 30th, @Hot Docs, Toronto / Canada- March 31th, @Hong Kong Int. Film Festival, Hong Kong - March 25th, @Cinéma du Réel, Paris / France - March 3th, @True/False, Missouri / USA - March 2nd, @MoMA, Doc Fortnight, NYC / USA https://burakcevik.com/nothing Sat, 03 Aug 2024 11:59:03 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/nothing <img width="2953" height="4134" width_o="2953" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e286be1c00d19d393d20d2fbc091842592af7970a866b85f621889018f09bca4/Poster.png" data-mid="215750567" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e286be1c00d19d393d20d2fbc091842592af7970a866b85f621889018f09bca4/Poster.png" /> Hiçbir Şey Yerinde Değil Nothing in Its Place 2024, 76 min, Turkish Turkey, Germany, South Korea Commissioned by Jeonju Cinema Project International Premiere: Karlovy Film Festival, Proxima Competition In 1978, five leftist youths, who believed that the leftist revolution could be achieved through politics, not violence, gathered in a house and began to discuss the magazine they had published. The subsequent events, which took place that night, revealed the political chaos that existed in Turkey prior to the 1980 coup d’état. Festivals Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea (1 - 10 May, 2024) Jeonju Cinema Project ScreeningKarlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic (28 June - 6 July, 2024) Proxima CompetitionAdana Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey (23 - 29 September, 2024) National Competition Won: Best Director, Special Jury Prize &amp; Best Art DirectionFilmfest Hamburg, Germany (26 September - 5 October, 2024) VETO! ProgramFIC Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico (25 September - 2 October, 2024) International Fiction/Animation Feature Film Competition São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil (17 - 30 October, 2024) International PerspectiveBelgrade Auteur Film Festival, Serbia (22 - 29 November, 2024) Official SelectionPune International Film Festival, India (13 - 20 February, 2025) Global Cinema Selected Reviews‘‘Nothing in Its Place was the result of two years of research and interviews; such fieldwork is not only related to character-building, but is also an excavation of memory. Born in 1993, Çevik can only gain access to the ’80s through other people’s stories, archives, and writings. But the film is much more than an exercise exploring second-hand memory; it is a living, breathing object that is not only period-accurate, but looks, smells, and tastes like the 1980s. A stale whiff of the old order combined with the fear and the hope for the future gives the film a paradoxical vitality, even when locked in the vicious cycles of ideological violence nations just can’t seem to break.’’ · &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; “Burak Çevik Explores Turkey’s Political Complexities in Nothing in Its Place” by Savina Petkova, The Film Stage, July 2024 ‘‘The remainder of the film, leading to the predetermined ending, is excruciating to watch — not so much because of the explicit verbal and physical violence, but due to the slow but sure trampling of the hope that civilised debate and a “velvet” revolution in politics is a real prospect when power is on the side of one of the two rival camps.’’· &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; “Nothing in Its Place: The historic drama centred on Turkey's deadly 1978 Bahçelievler massacre” by Mariana Hristova, The Film New Arab, August 2024 https://burakcevik.com/awomanescapes Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:45:13 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/awomanescapes <img width="2000" height="2963" width_o="2000" height_o="2963" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/011db518b5e785d0abc9c85f3e5a50d2269d29fd26fe5a995261232c6acdc577/AWE_BlakePoster-1.jpg" data-mid="148124586" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/011db518b5e785d0abc9c85f3e5a50d2269d29fd26fe5a995261232c6acdc577/AWE_BlakePoster-1.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="4050" height="6000" width_o="4050" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d89eb62667631834ce2ee52523e39d62501b4370a22e15f10d4712ec00cdedea/AWE_SofiaPoster_CMYK_27x40in.jpg" data-mid="148124585" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d89eb62667631834ce2ee52523e39d62501b4370a22e15f10d4712ec00cdedea/AWE_SofiaPoster_CMYK_27x40in.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2000" height="2963" width_o="2000" height_o="2963" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44a177c42fb04693baa11748b0abbdb7ba26dcd8dbd6bc638848e96235a3b0e4/AWE_BurakPoster.jpg" data-mid="148124565" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44a177c42fb04693baa11748b0abbdb7ba26dcd8dbd6bc638848e96235a3b0e4/AWE_BurakPoster.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Three different poster artwork choosed by three directors. From left to right: first poster designed by Blake Williams, second poster designed by Thomas Cecchelani and third poster designed by Dilsad Aladag. A Woman Escapes 2022, 81’, English &amp; Turkish 16mm, 4k, 3dCanada &amp; Turkey&nbsp; A co-direction with Sofia Bohdanowicz &amp;&nbsp; Blake Williams.World Premiere:&nbsp;FIDMarseille, International Competition 2022 Audrey Benac lives alone in Paris after having moved there to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend, Juliane. Moving through the days without any clear motivation or sense of purpose, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by beginning video correspondences with two filmmakers — Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. This exchange of words and footage initiates a healing process, but the nature of the interaction is not what it seems. Press Kit&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Trailer https://burakcevik.com/cursedbyspecters Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:34:03 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/cursedbyspecters <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/938470e137078a91c5f6dcab73bd2b6e6f7705ae356cfdffb8d5b7e449e8db66/whilecursedbyspecter_STILL1.png" data-mid="80729427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/938470e137078a91c5f6dcab73bd2b6e6f7705ae356cfdffb8d5b7e449e8db66/whilecursedbyspecter_STILL1.png" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd43b991842c58b589a4c017e6bce5d2298016d7ec1f8fb7ec200ecdc189b485/whilecursedbyspecter_STILL2.png" data-mid="80729428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd43b991842c58b589a4c017e6bce5d2298016d7ec1f8fb7ec200ecdc189b485/whilecursedbyspecter_STILL2.png" /> <img width="1418" height="1985" width_o="1418" height_o="1985" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bb4592da44076f1be228b6eca387650c481712eca5cddeea521ab41541c6cbe/whilecursedbyspecter_WEB.png" data-mid="80728964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bb4592da44076f1be228b6eca387650c481712eca5cddeea521ab41541c6cbe/whilecursedbyspecter_WEB.png" /> While Cursed By Specters2020, 10’, without dialogue Turkey Burak Çevik’s film reworks the stark black-and-white compositions of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1984 film Klassenhältnisse (Class Relations) in which German locations stand in for the imagined country of Kafka’s unfinished novel, Amerika. Here, however, depopulated interiors and desolate outdoor spaces carry the phantasmic traces of humanity – voices, shadows, photographs, cars – but never let them appear, suggesting a world in which all connections to the social have come untethered. [58th New York Film Festival’s Currents.] https://burakcevik.com/center Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:07:06 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/center <img width="1066" height="1440" width_o="1066" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f286fc83432163436c38515e617e450dc86d5095d2259895dc1eea03b919d69b/Screenshot-2023-12-20-at-02.06.23.png" data-mid="199806060" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f286fc83432163436c38515e617e450dc86d5095d2259895dc1eea03b919d69b/Screenshot-2023-12-20-at-02.06.23.png" /> Center / Merkez2024, 5’, without dialogueTurkeyShot on the night of November 24th.Edited on the night of December 19th.In the year of 2023, at MacDowell.‘‘There will be 3 copies of this video. The first one is here (MacDowell, Putnam Studio), the second one is with Seda M. and the third one is with me. Please don’t copy it and take it with you because nothing is permanent.’’ <img width="2072" height="1490" width_o="2072" height_o="1490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be701ebd6fa723827f0051e8073e5afb224e8168c06a09dcdbe9bbd7c5b63561/Screenshot-2023-11-22-at-13.01.04.png" data-mid="199806887" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be701ebd6fa723827f0051e8073e5afb224e8168c06a09dcdbe9bbd7c5b63561/Screenshot-2023-11-22-at-13.01.04.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2072" height="1490" width_o="2072" height_o="1490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13005745c2e91fd2a3d8383021e203e2457ed20a55fcb5569c836bf27c61a3fc/Screenshot-2023-11-22-at-13.01.09.png" data-mid="199806962" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13005745c2e91fd2a3d8383021e203e2457ed20a55fcb5569c836bf27c61a3fc/Screenshot-2023-11-22-at-13.01.09.png" /> https://burakcevik.com/topographyofmemory Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:43:03 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/topographyofmemory A Topography of Memory 2019, 30’, TurkishTurkey This subtly expansive new work by Burak Çevik (Belonging, ND/NF 2019) combines CCTV footage of urban Istanbul with audio of a family heading to vote in the controversial June 2015 Turkish general election. As talk ranges from domestic matters to political affiliations, shots of the city’s skyline, coastal architecture, and religious landmarks captured the day after the election slowly scroll past. Underlying these eerily serene images is the knowledge that in a follow-up vote five months later, the right-wing government would regain power. [57th NYFF] Premiered at Locarno Film Festival then screened Toronto Film Festival’s Wavelenghts section &amp; looped 2 days at 57th New York Film Festival’s Projections. Various opinions, arguments, and hopes succeed one another in the time that separates the intention from the vote. Invisible to our eyes, this family becomes a symbol of a driving force in contrast to the impersonal images of the city’s surveillance cameras, which film everything but capture nothing. Who preserves a country’s memory? —Daniela Persico <img width="702" height="386" width_o="702" height_o="386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ec2bfa9b0d6235bb2fbc8f14495362500fbb1c3ad572a15408ca2ce78520c2a/get-1.jpg" data-mid="60225373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/702/i/5ec2bfa9b0d6235bb2fbc8f14495362500fbb1c3ad572a15408ca2ce78520c2a/get-1.jpg" /> <img width="702" height="386" width_o="702" height_o="386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0519438e1806d53a8b3c03b51bae4959acef45a70420ba13fcadceffd1b608f/get-2.jpg" data-mid="60225372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/702/i/f0519438e1806d53a8b3c03b51bae4959acef45a70420ba13fcadceffd1b608f/get-2.jpg" /> https://burakcevik.com/belonging Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:30:47 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/belonging Screenings + Awards Berlinale Forum 2019 New Directors / New Films 2019Fajr Film Festival Transilvania Film FestivalFIRST Film FestivalSarajevo Film FestivalThessaloniki Film FestivalVancouver Film FestivalLa Plata Festi-FreakSao Paulo Film FestivalDokufest &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; + moreBogaziçi Film Festival, Best Film + ScreenplayOpen City Documentary Festival, Emerging International Filmmaker PLUS: Screened various theathers around 15 cities in Turkey. Belonging / Aidiyet 2019, 73’, TurkishTurkey &amp; Canada <img width="2048" height="822" width_o="2048" height_o="822" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f121d48387270303fc0a8eccdb5e0b0ede136614d54b64616ef6b16bd02fdee/Belonging_Still1.png" data-mid="60224078" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f121d48387270303fc0a8eccdb5e0b0ede136614d54b64616ef6b16bd02fdee/Belonging_Still1.png" /> <img width="2048" height="837" width_o="2048" height_o="837" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/193a8785de796e1e0950685267a8040fca169d18b58e68a24ee610a87dd0d3df/Eylul-Su-Sapan_Caglar-Yalcnkaya.png" data-mid="60224079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/193a8785de796e1e0950685267a8040fca169d18b58e68a24ee610a87dd0d3df/Eylul-Su-Sapan_Caglar-Yalcnkaya.png" /> Belonging is one of the best undistributed films of 2019 accordingly Film Comment Magazine. Aidiyet is a contemporary thriller that maps out a criminal case, though it’s the very opposite of a genre film. In a voice-over delivered in the sober tone of a confession, a man reconstructs the murder of his future mother-in-law. Acting on the wishes of her daughter, his lover, he hired a contract killer to murder her because she opposed their relationship. All that the film shows are the many locations that make up the tragedy: a tidy apartment, the bus station in Ankara, the parking lot, the hallway, the murder victim’s bed… On the way back to Istanbul, the motorway by night becomes a screen onto which the terrible inner torment of someone with a life on his conscience is projected. Then the film changes perspective and shows how the lovers met and what preceded the bloody deed.These seemingly harmless images and conversations become charged by the viewer’s prior knowledge, as if in a psychosis. Why did the mysterious Pelin hate her parents so much? That’s a question the film doesn’t answer. In Aidiyet, Burak Çevik conducts an elegant, exciting, and instinctual experiment with the detective impulses of his audience. —Dorothee Wenner A stylistically different quest drives Burak Çevik’s noir, Belonging. The film’s first part comes across as an essay film, and hints at why Çevik made the film. (...) Çevik knows instinctively that once he’s sent us down the path of trying to ferret out how Belonging’s introduction and the main act fit, we can’t escape the morbid fascination of trying to put it all together. by Ela Bittencourt for Mubi.com The writer-director Burak Çevik then flips the switch and the movie shifts into a more lyrical narrative register, one that fills in all the little nuances, most notably the intimate in- between moments that both explain and obscure so much. by Manohla Dargis for The New York Times Çevik’s second feature, Belonging, continues his existential explorations through the story of a crime committed on Istanbul’s outskirts. (...) Driven by a belief in cinematic language, Belonging&nbsp;is a therapeutic gesture that rises above psychological and moral judgments to navigate the complexity of family history. by Yonca Talu for Film Comment The dramatisation of this night-time encounter is excellent, thanks to the sustained dialogue between the protagonists, written as if it were at a kind of crossroads between Éric Rohmer and Richard Linklater. by Carlota Moseguí for Cineuropa Çevik’s script underscores the questions of fate with explict conversations about fortune-telling, as well as a poetry reading that segues into a bucolic dream sequence —conspicuously florid touches in this film of spare, unforced elegance. Nonetheless, Belonging impresses for its conceptual deftness and suggestive power. by Lawrence Garcia for Film Comment’s Jan-Feb 2020 Issue https://burakcevik.com/pillarofsalt Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:41:38 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/pillarofsalt A pregnant young woman who lives in a sort of cave is looking for her vanished sister, yet this plot summary hardly does justice to the charm, richness and radical nature of Burak Çevik’s first feature – all of which a result of the liberties he takes in creating an extravagant cinematic world to tell this story. The protagonist leaves her almost fairytale-like cave to set out across a river, taking up her sister’s trail. This trail leads her to a botanical garden, a bird shop, and a darkroom. The photo lab technician compares the effect of photographs to God turning Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt because she couldn’t resist the temptation of turning around to see Sodom be destroyed. Captured for eternity, transfixed for eternity – should we take it at face value when the protagonist tells the boatwoman that she is a part-time vampire? The dreamlike way in which the film digresses to show us a plant, a strip of negatives, or a table tennis match contributes considerably to the strange fascination it develops. Some things remain mysterious – which only makes us even more curious about what they might be referring to. —Anna Hoffmann The Pillar of Salt / Tuzdan Kaide 2018, 71’, Turkish, Turkey <img width="1500" height="1132" width_o="1500" height_o="1132" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85d4ffdea9c2eb828468a69cd7bbfb69405bdabce41290fbb1f25330f270811d/TK_Stills4_Zinnure_Ture_Dila_Yumurtaci.jpg" data-mid="60225223" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85d4ffdea9c2eb828468a69cd7bbfb69405bdabce41290fbb1f25330f270811d/TK_Stills4_Zinnure_Ture_Dila_Yumurtaci.jpg" /> Screenings Berlinale Forum 2018 Skopje Film FestivalIstanbul Film FestivalAdana Film FestivalAnkara Film FestivalEskisehir Film FestivalBogaziçi Film FestivalKaunas Film FestivalRabat Film FestivalSudan Film Festival Cinemistica FestivalMadrid, La Casa Encendida on The Pillar of Salt by Burak Çevik for manifold.press [Turkish]Part I: Durmak Mümkün müdür?Part II: El Yordamıyla Ama ElsizPart III: Biçimsel KararlarPart IV: Bir Yönetmen Filmini Kimin İçin Yapar?<img width="1280" height="1545" width_o="1280" height_o="1545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d07eeafe3368459b90f93d3028fd228c809268402736734138d5c2d62ccd839f/manifold-bc-01-burak-cevik-defter.jpg" data-mid="60225222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d07eeafe3368459b90f93d3028fd228c809268402736734138d5c2d62ccd839f/manifold-bc-01-burak-cevik-defter.jpg" /> ‘‘Tuzdan Kaide travels by keeping a record of strange moments, familiar but foreign places, contactless encounters, untargeted monologues, undefined humming in a land that falls far away from the common cinema understanding centered on storytelling. It is obviously looking for something. What it is looking for is not something that can be reached through all these moments, places, words, sounds, but something hidden inside them. There are no functional steps bounced to reach a place in this film; There is a desire to hang in some sounds and images that promise an instant spell. What is sought is perhaps the origin of this desire; the secret of the charm of the cinema that gives rise to this desire.’’ From an interview by Ayça Çiftçi, Berke Göl for Altyazi Magazine. [Turkish] <img width="1890" height="1350" width_o="1890" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d17a354cfd19faaae84cefd52dce6ee054158f26253d9b6bea9cd1ae3d815ce7/manifold-manifold-seyler-kitap-tuzdan-kaide-burak-cevik-foto-manifold-00.jpg" data-mid="163720139" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d17a354cfd19faaae84cefd52dce6ee054158f26253d9b6bea9cd1ae3d815ce7/manifold-manifold-seyler-kitap-tuzdan-kaide-burak-cevik-foto-manifold-00.jpg" /> A book consisting of my writings about the production process of The Pillar of Salt and the script of the film was published by Manifold.Tuzdan Kaide: Bir İlk Filmin Yapımı Author: Burak Çevik Editor: İpek Şoran Design: Esen Karol Photos: Rafi Baysal [digital photos], collective [Polaroids] Sketches: Dilşad Aladağ Language: Turkish 978-605-81555-4-1 Closed size: 15 × 23 cm Number of pages: 104 + cover + accordion fold insert Binding: Thread stitching, soft cover Inner paper: Sappi matte coated 90 g + Munken Print Cream 70 g Offset Printing: Offset Production House https://burakcevik.com/screenings Sun, 17 Jul 2022 22:56:39 +0000 Burak Çevik https://burakcevik.com/screenings 2024 - July 18th, Belonging, @Gumusluk Akademisi, Bodrum / Turkey - July 17th, The Pillar of Salt, @Gumusluk Akademisi, Bodrum / Turkey - June 4th, Nothing in Its Place, @Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Karlovy Vary / Czechia - May 29th, Forms of Forgetting, @Este Film Festival, Sibiu / Romania - May 3rd, Nothing in Its Place, @Jeonju Film Festival, Jeonju / Korea - May 3rd, Center, @Jeonju Film Festival, Jeonju / Korea - April 29th, Belonging, @Izmir Ekonomi University, Izmir / Turkey - Feb 1st/08th, A Woman Escapes, @ICALondon, London / UK 2023 - Nov 27th, Forms of Forgetting, @University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee / USA - Nov 13th, Belonging, @Wagner College Int. Film Festival, NYC / USA - Nov 5th, A Woman Escapes, @Cinematheque of Bogotá, Bogotá / Colombia - October 22th, Forms of Forgetting, @Viennale, Vienna / Austria - October 3rd, Forms of Forgetting, @Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City / Mexico - August 29th, A Woman Escapes, @Cineastas na Fronteira - V Fronteira, Goiania / Brazil - June 22th, A Woman Escapes, @Taipei Film Festival, Taipei / Taiwan - June 17th, Forms of Forgetting, @Istanbul Modern, Istanbul / Turkey - June 14th, Belonging, @Anthology Film Archives, NYC / USA - June 12th, The Pillar of Salt, @Anthology Film Archives, NYC / USA - June 9th, A Woman Escapes, @Anthology Film Archives, NYC / USA- June 7th, A Woman Escapes, @Filmadrid, Madrid / Spain - June 7th, A Topography of Memory, @Filmadrid, Madrid / Spain- May 12th, Forms of Forgetting, @Beldocs, Belgrade / Serbia - May 5th, A Woman Escapes, @Jeonju Film Festival, Jeonju / Korea - May 4th, Forms of Forgetting, @Jeonju Film Festival, Jeonju / Korea - April 30th, Forms of Forgetting, @Hot Docs, Toronto / Canada- April 19th , While Cursed by Specters, @Istanbul Bilgi Universiy, Film Encounters, Istanbul / Turkey - April 18th, A Woman Escapes, @Int. Frauen Film Festival, Dortmund / Germany - April 12th, A Woman Escapes, @TIFF Bell Lightbox Wavelengths &amp; Images Festival, Toronto / Canada- April 9th, A Woman Escapes, @Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul / Turkey- March 31th, Forms of Forgetting, @Hong Kong Int. Film Festival, Hong Kong - March 29th, A Woman Escapes, @Institut Français Izmir, Izmir / Turkey - March 25th, Forms of Forgetting, @Cinéma du Réel, Paris / France - March 3th, Forms of Forgetting, @True/False, Missouri / USA - March 2nd, Forms of Forgetting, @MoMA, Doc Fortnight, NYC / USA- February 18th, Forms of Forgetting, @Berlinale Forum, Berlin / Germany- February 11th, A Woman Escapes, @Kino Armata, Prishtina / Kosovo - February 10th, A Topography of Memory, @Kino Armata, Prishtina / Kosovo- February 10th, Belonging, @Kino Armata, Prishtina / Kosovo - February 9th , While Cursed by Specters, @Kino Armata, Prishtina / Kosovo - February 9th, The Pillar of Salt, @Kino Armata, Prishtina / Kosovo 2022 - November 9th, A Woman Escapes, @Cámara Lúcida - Int. Contemporary Film Festival, Cuenca / Ecuador - November 6th, A Woman Escapes, @Mar del Plata Int. Film Festival, Mar del Plata / Argentina - October 26th, The Pillar of Salt, @Wolf Kino, Berlin / Germany- October 26th, Belonging, @Wolf Kino, Berlin / Germany- October 24th, A Woman Escapes, @daadgalerie, Berlin / Germany - October 22th, A Woman Escapes, @Memphis Film Festival, Memphis / USA - October 18th, A Woman Escapes, @Container: Brisbane Film Society, Brisbane / Australia - October 16th, A Woman Escapes, @Doclisboa, Lisbon / Portugal- October 13th, A Woman Escapes, @Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Lima / Peru- October 10th, A Woman Escapes, @Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal / Canada - October 10th, A Woman Escapes, @Festival Int. de Cine de Valdivia, Valdivia / Chile -&nbsp;October 3rd, A Woman Escapes, @Antalya Film Festival, Antalya / Turkey -&nbsp;October 2nd, A Woman Escapes, @Vancouver Film Festival, Vancouver / Canada -&nbsp;October 1st, A Woman Escapes, @Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City / Mexico - September 28th, The Pillar of Salt, @Universal Sci-Fi &amp; Fantastic Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey -&nbsp;September 30th, A Woman Escapes, @Bucharest Int. Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest / Romania - August 5th, A Woman Escapes, @Dokufest, Prizren / Kosova- July 27th, Belonging, @Apartment Project Galerie, Berlin / Germany- July 12th, The Pillar of Salt, @Arsenal Kino, Berlin / Germany - AWARD: A Woman Escapes, @FIDMarseille, Honourable Mention - CNAP Award- July 7th, A Woman Escapes, @FIDMarseille, Marseille / France- June 20th, Belonging @DAADGalerie, Berlin / Germany 2021 - November 8th, Belonging @Galatasaray University, Istanbul / Turkey - May 21th, While Cursed by Specter, @Images Festival, Toronto / Canada 2020 - November 4-5-8-9th, Belonging, @The Cinematheque, Vancouver / Canada- September 17th , While Cursed by Specters, @New York Film Festival, NYC / USA - March 29th, Belonging @Türkische Filmtage München, Munich / Germany- March 11th, Belonging @Izmir Economy University, Izmir / Turkey- March 10th, Belonging @Eskişehir Kanatlı Cinema Pink, Eskisehir / Turkey - March 9th, Belonging @Bilkent University Media Talks, Ankara / Turkey - March 8th, The Pillar of Salt @ODTU SiTop Sinema Festivali, Ankara / Turkey- March 7th, Belonging @Kizilay Buyulu Fener, Ankara / Turkey - February 29th, Belonging @Keswick Film Festival, Keswick / UK- January 31th, Belonging @Cinemaximum Kanyon, APlus, CKM Budak, City’s, Istanbul / Turkey- January 31th, Belonging @Cinemaximum Piazza, Samsun / Turkey- January 31th, Belonging @Cinemaximum Podyumpark, Bursa / Turkey- January 31th, Belonging @Cinemaximum Antalya Migros, Antalya / Turkey - January 24th, Belonging @Karaca Sinemasi, Izmir / Turkey - January 21th, The Pillar of Salt @Sudan Independent Film Festival, Khartoum / Sudan - January 17th, Belonging @Kizilay Buyulu Fener, Ankara / Turkey - January 16th, Belonging @Ardahan Sinema Society, Ardahan / Turkey - January 15th, Belonging @Kars Sinema Society, Kars / Turkey - January 13th, Belonging @Atasehir Belediyesi, Istanbul / Turkey- January 9th, Belonging @Beyoglu Sinemasi, Istanbul / Turkey - January 9th, The Pillar of Salt @Beyoglu Sinemasi, Istanbul / Turkey 2019 - December 24th, Belonging @Kadikoy Sinemasi, Istanbul / Turkey - December 14th, Belonging @Bezgin Bekir, Diyarbakır / Turkey - December 13th, Belonging @Sinemardin Film Festival, Mardin / Turkey - December 12th, Belonging, @New York Turkish Film Festival, NYC /USA- December 10th, Belonging @Gezici Festival, Kastamonu / Turkey - December 8th, Belonging @Gezici Festival, Sinop / Turkey - December 3rd, Belonging @Gezici Festival, Ankara / Turkey - November 30th, Belonging @Zvezda: Panaroma, Moscow / Russia - November 22th, Belonging, @Belgrad Auteur Film Festival, Belgrad / Serbia- November 16th , Belonging, @Rabat Film Festival, Rabat / Morrocco - AWARD: Belonging, @Malatya Film Festival, Contribution to Turkish Cinema Award - November 15th, Belonging, @Malatya Film Festival, Malatya / Turkey - November 14th, Belonging, @RIDM, Montreal / Canada- November 12th, Belonging, @Hollywood Turkish Film Festival, LA / USA- November 10th, The Pillar of Salt, @La Casa Encendida, Madrid / Spain- November 5th, The Pillar of Salt, @Cinemistica Festival, Granada / Spain - October 31th , Belonging, @Thessaloniki Int. Film Festival, Thessaloniki / Greece- AWARD: Belonging, @Bogazici Film Festival, Best Film &amp; Best Screenplay- October 21th, Belonging, @Bogazici Film Festival, Istanbul / Turkey - October 17th , Belonging, @Sao Paulo Film Festival, Sao Paulo / Brasil- September 30th , Belonging, @Vancouver Film Festival, Vancouver / Canada - September 27th , A Topography of Memory, @New York Film Festival, NYC / USA - September 23th, Belonging, @Adana Film Festival, Adana / Turkey- September 19th , Belonging, @Calgary Film Festival, Calgary / Canada- September 11th, Belonging, @Izmir Sinema Burada, Izmir / Turkey - September 8th , A Topography of Memory, @Toronto Film Festival, Toronto / Canada - AWARD: Belonging, @Open City Documentary Festival, Emerging International Filmmaker - September 6th , Belonging, @Open City Documentary Festival, London / UK- September 5th , Belonging, @La Plata Festi-Freak, Buenos Aires / Argentina- August 23th, Belonging, @Sahalin Film Festival, Sahalin / Russia- August 16th, Belonging, @Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegovina - August 2nd, Belonging, @Dokufest, Prizren / Kosova - August 7th, A Topography of Memory, @Locarno Film Festival, Locarno / Switzerland - July 21th, Belonging, @First International Film Festival, Xining / China- July 7th, Belonging, @Golden Apricot Film Festival, Yerevan / Armenia- June 1st, Belonging, @Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore / Singapore - May 31th, Belonging, @Transilvania Film Festival, Cluj / Romania- May 8th, The Pillar of Salt, @Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul / Turkey- April 24th, The Pillar of Salt, @Karlstorkino - Medienforum, Heidelberg / Germany- April 18th, Belonging, @Fajr Film Festival, Tahran / Iran- April 4th, Belonging, @New Directors / New Films, NYC / USA- February 7th, Belonging, @Berlinale Forum, Berlin / Germany - January 5th, The Pillar of Salt, @Sinema Nereye?-Event Series, Istanbul / Turkey 2018- December 17th, The Pillar of Salt, @Sakarya University, Sakarya / Turkey - December 10th, The Pillar of Salt, @Bogazici University-Sinebu, Istanbul / Turkey- December 8th, The Pillar of Salt, @Randevu Film Festival, Istanbul / Turkey- November 29th, The Pillar of Salt, @Deutsch-Türkische Filmtage, Stuttgart / Turkey- November 28th, The Pillar of Salt, @Sinopale Film Festival, Sinop / Turkey - November 28th, The Pillar of Salt, @Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul / Germany- November 19th, The Pillar of Salt, @Eskisehir Film Festival, Eskisehir / Turkey- November 16th , The Pillar of Salt, @Rabat Film Festival, Rabat / Morrocco- October 26th, The Pillar of Salt, @Bogazici Film Festival, Istanbul / Turkey- October 5th, The Pillar of Salt, @Ayvalik Film Festival, Ayvalik / Turkey- September 24th , The Pillar of Salt, @Adana Film Festival, Adana / Turkey- September 22th , The Pillar of Salt, @CerModern Museum, Ankara / Turkey- September 21th , The Pillar of Salt, @Kaunas Int. Film Festival, Kaunas / Lithuania- September 7th, The Pillar of Salt, @Fol Destek Gecesi, Istanbul / Turkey- May 9th, The Pillar of Salt, @Kayseri Film Festival, Kayseri / Turkey- April 23th, The Pillar of Salt, @Ankara Film Festival, Ankara / Turkey- April 19th, The Pillar of Salt,&nbsp; @Skopje film Festival, Skopje / Macedonia- April 14th, The Pillar of Salt, @Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul / Turkey- February 19th, The Pillar of Salt, @Berlinale Forum, Berlin / Germany