Bingöl Elmas
Directing
Biography
Bingöl Elmas graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Communication. After working at various television channels, she joined the Documentary Filmmakers Association, where she served for eight years, actively organizing workshops, conferences, and nationwide screenings. She was part of the The International 1001 Documentary Film Festival committee and taught documentary workshops at several universities. She has served as a jury member at national and international festivals, including Antalya Golden Orange, Ankara, Film Amed, Istanbul Short Film, İfsak and Afsad. With her debut film CicadAnt (Ağustos Karıncası), she won the Best Documentary Award at the Antalya Golden Orange and later received the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award at the Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival. Filmography 2025 No Country for Others (Documentary, Director) 2014 Hey Neighbour! (Documentary, Director) 2013 A Handful of Land (TRT Documentary Series - 13 episodes, Director: Bingöl Elmas, Sultan İlhan ) 2012 Playing House (Documentary, Director) 2011 My Letter to Pippa (Documentary, Director, © ARTICLE Z / ASMİN FILM / ARTE France) 2008 TransAsia (Documentary, Director) 2005 CicadAnt (Documentary, Director ) 42 nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Best Documentary Film for National Documentary Film Category) Films in which she worked as an executive producer 2024 “A Terrible Thing Happened“ Film on the Madımak Massacre and Beyond 2019 Going To The Homeland) (Heimei Maru) 2019 Broken Balls (Documentary) 2013 I Chose Gurbet (Documentary)
Known For
Two film school graduates intimidated by the gender stereotypes that pervade film industry decide to make a documentary to explore the issue. The two women spend two years shooting, make 5000 kilometers, talk to established women directors and record every moment of this journey of discovery and self-discovery. But the real journey is just about to begin.
Her First
The relationship between an old single-floor house and her neighbor residence. There is the pink house and her ex-residents on one side, and the new neighbors on the other side. We witness their feelings and views about each other, and their dreams about the city, of course together with the scenery from their windows.
Hey Neighbour!
A film about migration, otherness, and the fragile possibility of living together. In Istanbul’s Aksaray district, traces of distant geographies collide — Syria, Somalia, East Turkestan, Kazakhstan. At the heart of this convergence is Yeni Han, where translated documents mirror transformed lives. It’s a place of hope and confusion, of shifting identities and uncertain futures. Meanwhile, just outside, locals and newcomers share the same streets yet remain separated by invisible distances. This film listens to the silence between them — the hesitation, fear, and unspoken boundaries that shape coexistence in today’s Istanbul.
Yeni Han
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Pippa'ya Mektubum
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