Ceylan Özgün Özçelik

Director

February 3, 1980 (46 years)

Rize, Türkiye

Biography

Born in 1980, in Turkey. Özçelik studied law at the Marmara University in Istanbul, but never practiced. After working as a text writer in TV channels and as a DJ in a radio station, started to produce, write and host a TV show on cinema called “En Heyecanlı Yeri”, which was aired for almost ten years. Add to that she produced and wrote four other culture-art TV programmes. For fourteen years, she had written film reviews for online and print media. A book of interviews and media memoirs calle…

Filmography

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Strange, Abandoned, Deranged

Turkey's first “eco” hotel, Naturland Eco Park and Resort, opened in 1991 and operated until 2014. A hybrid of documentary, black satirical comedy and circus-style performance, the film builds on fictional voice-overs that depict the experiences of hotel guests and staff and the gradual decay of the once-pompous and now dilapidated abandoned complex, which was closed due to overwhelming debts and left virtually untouched.

5.2

Witch Trilogy 13+

A fourteen-year old girl communicates with a spider in a dark basement, without knowing the time and place.

5.3

Inflame

Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?

5.4

Witch Trilogy 15+

Witch Trilogy 15+ tells the story of two women who killed their husbands who were violent to them. Aylin and Eve share their home, love, anger, childhood, children, dreams and nightmares. The documentary travels through genres from thriller to experimental as it conveys the emotions that Aylin and Eve have decanted into the letters. He questions the finding of two women “guilty” in the time-and-space-free cycle of violence.

6.0

In Ten Seconds

The struggle of a mother and guidance counselor who will do anything to get her child back to school, expelled from William College, one of the best and most prestigious schools in the country, for a crime she committed.

5.5

Ankebût

A woman, released from prison, drifts between nightmare and reality.

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By Any Means Necessary

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2.0

Ada

Ada spends one last day with her mother…underwater.

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