Burak Dal

A Journey To The Black Sea (2025)

Adem Ekiz lives in Trabzon, Turkey, with his wife and 3 children. He is Muslim and his native language is Greek. He is playing "kemenche." Through his music, he silently breaks the chains between peoples by singing his traditional songs in both Turkish and ...

Fate (2024)

Having lost her husband, Sultan seeks remarriage to escape her loneliness. Despite her son's objections and her daughter's criticism that it's "too early," she is determined. To survive as a single woman, she breaks social norms, turns her house into a boa ...

Searching for Rodakis (2024)

As a Greek tombstone of unknown origin is discovered underneath the floorboards in an old village house in Turkey, an almost forgotten story from the country's creation unravels; the forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The engrave ...

Monologue (2023)

Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi border. When he was murdered in the 2011 Robozik (Roboski) Massacre, the responsibility of family's welfare was taken over by his younger brother Sinan, who ...

Doubt (2022)

Sait, a man committed to his faith, has turned his back on the material world. This peaceful existence is shattered by a news story he sees on television and a municipal worker who comes knocking on his door in the middle of the night. ...

Incomplete Sentences (2022)

Aslı Erdoğan, world-renowned author and activist, has fallen into silence after she fled to Germany. Incomplete Sentences is a feature documentary on her literature and life, leading to exile in Frankfurt, after the Turkish regime's oppression results in ...

Sahakyan, My Family: Samatya Sahakyan Choir (2021)

The Samatya Sahakyan Choir was founded in 1703 and is the oldest church choir in Turkey. This documentary follows the choir's preparation for their 2020 New Year's concert step by step starting from their first rehearsals. Along the way, the creative histo ...

North (2015)

Bakur (North) is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on its main subject, the PKK. The film follows the lives of the guerilla in three different camps on the Kurdish ...

Prison No. 5: 1980-84 (2011)

Following the military intervention of 1980 the number of people who died during interrogation or in prison increased. As a result of the unsanitary conditions and torture in prisons, 299 people died while incarcerated. ...

A Bridge at the Edge of the World (2007)

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile, on the eastern border of Turkey, in a Kurdish city between the borders of Iran and Iraq that is left to ...

Yıldız Alpar: Bedii Raks'tan Bugüne (2011)