“An auteur with a genuine spiritual sensitivity, Zeki Demirkubuz (is) one of the world's few convincing existential filmmakers” (Boston Phoenix). Discover this Turkish director's acclaimed body of work, a compelling portrait of morality in the contemporary world.
Read full descriptionA husband's suspicions lead to “the most shattering depiction of marital life since Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.”-Edinburgh Film Festival
This prequel to Innocence develops that film's characters and won the Best Director prize at the 2006 Istanbul Film Festival.
Transplanting Camus's The Stranger to Istanbul, Demirkubuz's absurdism “suggest(s) Beckettian farce as realized by the Coen brothers.”-Village Voice
A young man just out of prison is drawn into a disturbing love triangle in Demirkubuz's acclaimed breakthrough film.
Another hapless hero-a suicidal movie extra-whose life is transformed and transfixed by a woman, Demirkubuz's own brand of irony.
In his most personal film, Demirkubuz himself plays an alienated auteur who can't wrap his mind around Crime and Punishment.
A provocative parable of modern living and female identity, Demirkubuz's first feature “portrays high-rise life as an inescapable moonscape.”-Village Voice