Koray Kesik

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 ...

Rojbash (2024)

Rojbash is the story of a group of Kurdish actors, coming together to restage a play from 25 years ago. Their journey straddles between the play, their dreams and the reality. For Kemal who dedicated his life to Kurdish theatre, political conditions of Kur ...

The Decree (2023)

When a wave of dismissals follows the attempted coup in Turkey, Yasemin, a doctor, and Engin, a teacher, are among those who suddenly find themselves on the streets. ...

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 ...

Jiyana Rewsenbireki Kurd: Casimê Celîl (2021)

Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located in Digor, Kars. The village and family life, which he longed to remember throughout his life, ends with the massacre they endured in 1918. During his lon ...

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 ...

My Child (2013)

What happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender individuals in Turkey intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine what it means to be parents in this co ...

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)