Çagla Zencirci
Directing
Biography
Çagla Zencirci was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1976. Along with Guillaume Giovanetti, they form a directorial duo based in Paris and Istanbul, and they directed several short films in the Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, and Far-East, (among which Ata, France/Turkey 2008 and Six, Japan/France 2009) selected in more than 200 Festivals worldwide (Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Tampere, FIDMarseille, Clermont-Ferrand, etc.) and awarded more than 40 times. In 2012, the co-directors achieved Noor, their first feature film (France/Turkey/Pakistan), which they developed in France’s Moulin d’Andé and shot in Pakistan thanks to the support of the MEDIA Program. The film premiered at the ACID section of the 65th Cannes International Film Festival 2012, competed in the 47th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, was selected in Busan IFF, and was awarded several Grand Prix (Paris’ “Chéries-Chéris” Festival; Dieppe, France; New York Asian Film Festival; Bogota, Colombia; Mississauga, Canada) and many other Awards (Rome, Milan, Vancouver, Dublin, Toulouse, etc.). After more than 80 invitations from Festivals worldwide, the film has been theatrically released in France in April 2014, with a very good reception from critics and the audience.
Known For
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
Sibel
Ankara, 1999. Arzu takes one call after another in the sex call centre where she works. When an earthquake hits Istanbul, a young client she spoke to earlier phones her back, begging her to rescue him from the rubble.
Confidante
Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life. Now, he is doing a man's job in a Truck Decoration Center and he made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is.
Noor
Filmmaking partners Guillaume Giovanetti and Cagla Zencirci immersed themselves in the magical world of Japanese folklore to create this intricate and delightfully amusing modern-day parable. Starring Masahiro Yoshino, Masako Wajima, Xiao Mu Lee and Megumi Ayukawa.
Ningen
The linguistic ordeal of a Hungarian and a Finnish guy on an international flight in the European night.
On a Train
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Ata
Mehmet comes together with 13 visually handicapped people aged between 18 and 47 to take part in a month-long scriptwriting and film directing workshop. Will they be able to use cinema as a medium for expressing themselves? More importantly, what will they want to convey? Camera Obscura is a documentary about people who perceive life through their emotions.