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Complete Filmography

Hysteria
2025
as Majid
A film shoot takes a dark turn when the burning of a Quran throws the crew into turmoil. Caught in accusations, intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous ...

One Bad Day
2025
as İhsan
Ahmet is an 11-year-old middle school student. Since he ripped his trousers while playing ball at school, he needs to have his trousers patched with t...

The Flying Meatball Maker
2025
as Kadir
Kadir, a meatball maker, father of three and native of Diyarbakır, is determined to fly, and he won’t let tradition, his family, the state and his tro...

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, thei...

Der gute Bulle: Heaven Can Wait
2024
as Kassem Haddad
Chief Inspector Fredo Schulz receives a surprising diagnosis: the doctor tells him that he has colon cancer and only has three months to live. He shou...

Elaha
2023
as Father
Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an opera...

Once Upon a Time in Diyarbekir
2023
as Horozcu
Three friends embark on a life-changing journey triggered by a mysterious white pigeon. Experience a heartwarming tale of perseverance and self-discov...

Heartsong
2022
as Seymen
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
2022
as Mehmet
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at t...

BA HAM
2021
Pouya is a political refugee from Iran who lives in Hamburg and is doing everything he can to bring his wife Nikta to safety. As a political activist ...

The Verdict in the Case of K.
2020
as Mustafa
Following a trial and a verdict, a family tries to find their way back to normality. They are forced, however, to deal with the expectations of the Tu...

Gipsy Queen
2019
as Attila
Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader, falls in disgrace when she gives birth to her se...

Miracles Of Love
2019
as Şemsettin
During the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful girl in the village.

The Heavy Burden
2019
as Manager
AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to ...

The Announcement
2017
as Nazif
May 22nd, 1963. Unhappy with the existing social and political situation in Turkey, a group of military officers has planned a coup d’état to take dow...

The Nested Game
2017
An unfair game filled with lies and tricks played around a table covetously by big brothers of the neighbourhood... The nested game...

Bizans Oyunları: Geym of Bizans
2016
Fed up with South America’s heat, the Maya, lured by rumors of golden soil, migrate to Anatolia, settling near Bağcılar and blending their advanced te...

The Miracle
2015
as Şemsettin
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and esp...

Memories on Stone
2014
as Alan
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn...

Letter to the King
2014
as Miro
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his fo...

Government Woman 2
2013
as Ferhat
Seven years before the first film, Xate, still living in her husband Aziz Veysel’s shadow, is about to become the region’s first female mayor when a r...

The Blue Van
2013
Pınar, who works as a specialist at Eskişehir State Hospital, is sent to a place she has never seen before, on a mission she received from the chief p...

Government Woman
2013
as Ferhat
Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, t...

Before Snowfall
2013
as Refugee
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of...

Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing
2012
as Vater
The twelve-year old immigrant Veysel and his family have a hard time to become integrated into Austrian life. They have more and more inner family-ori...

If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011
as Mamat
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track ...

Pandora's Box
2008
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care ...

Maman est folle
2007
as Jallal

Dol: The Valley of Tambourines
2007
as Azad
On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.

The International
2006
as Tekin Yayladalı
It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.

Magic Carpet Ride
2005
as Hıdır Durulmaz
A struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.

Kilometer Zero
2005
as Ako
Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.

A Little Bit of Freedom
2003
as Haydar
In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor, an openly gay African youth with blond hair, makes his money by dealing drugs and drea...

Journey to the Sun
1999
as Berzan
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. ...