Biography
He is a Turkish-Italian director, screenwriter and writer. In 1976, he first went to Perugia Foreigners University in Italy, learned Italian for a year, and then transferred to Rome La Sapienza University to study cinema. After completing his education there, he went to Accademia Navona and Accademia d'Arte Dramatica schools to study art history, costume and theater direction and took lessons from Silvio D'Amico. During this period, he worked with Julien Beck in various positions on the European...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Diamonds
2024
as Ferzan
A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal muc...

Diamonds
2024
Director, Story, Screenplay
A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal muc...

Musicanti con la pianola
2024
as Himself

Istanbul Trilogy: Music
2024
Director, Writer
A man facing some issues with his business gets the chance to see how a seemingly simple event from his childhood affected someone life's forever.

Istanbul Trilogy: Muhabbet
2024
Director, Writer
A man who moved away from his hometown engages in deep conversations with his friends and family while toasting, eating and celebrating life.

Istanbul Trilogy: Meze
2024
Writer, Director
In order to cope with a big disappointment on her wedding day, a woman gathers at the table with her loved ones to share delicious mezes.

Nuovo Olimpo
2023
Director, Writer
In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.

Buon compleanno Massimo
2023
as Sé stesso

L'uomo che inventò il futuro
2021
Director
A father, a son. Two distant words. United by the same story.

The Goddess of Fortune
2019
Writer, Director
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisi...

Stranger in My Pocket
2018
Producer
The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, i...

Naples in Veils
2017
Director, Screenplay
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden lo...

Red Istanbul
2017
Novel, Director, Screenplay
Orhan who lived in London for years and did not come back to Turkey agrees to help Deniz -a famous director- edit his first book. Deniz has been livin...

Fasten Your Seatbelts
2014
Director, Screenplay
Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate t...

A Magnificent Haunting
2012
Screenplay, Director, Story
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Aida
2012
Stage Director

Voi siete qui
2011
as Self

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
2010
as Self

Loose Cannons
2010
Director, Screenplay, Story
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip...

L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble
2009
Director

A Perfect Day
2008
Director, Screenplay
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intr...

Saturn in Opposition
2007
Director, Writer, Idea
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. L...

Sacred Heart
2005
Story, Director, Screenplay
Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.

Facing Windows
2003
Director, Writer
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to refle...

His Secret Life
2001
Screenplay, Director, Story
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholes...

Last Harem
1999
Director, Writer
A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Steam: The Turkish Bath
1997
Director, Writer
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turk...

OcchioPinocchio
1994
First Assistant Director
A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

The Pack
1994
Casting, First Assistant Director
In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard....

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima
1994
Assistant Director

Donne con le gonne
1991
First Assistant Director
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an h...

Ultrà
1991
Assistant Director
The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, ...

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
1989
First Assistant Director
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it...

Mortacci
1989
First Assistant Director
Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who reme...

The Man Who Didn't Want to Die
1989
Assistant Director
A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness,...

The Big Fox
1988
First Assistant Director
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltor...

Maramao
1987
Assistant Director
A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood, while experiencing his sexual awa...

Us Real Men, We Hard Men
1987
First Assistant Director
Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri
1986
First Assistant Director
Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is lin...

Son contento
1983
as Il madonnaro