Can Candan

What happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender individuals in Turkey intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine what it means to be parents in this conservative society.

In 1991, both two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 30th anniversary of the guest worker agreement, Turkish filmmaker Can Candan interviewed members of Berlin's Turkish community about their experiences around German reunification and the racist violence that came along with it at the beginning of the 90s.

an agit-prop student film highlighting the Coca-Cola Company’s economic contribution to South Africa’s Apartheid regime.

a silent 16 mm. student film exploring the relationship between a young woman and horses.

In Turkey, once every year, about 1.5 million young people take the infamous Student Selection Exam hoping to have the right to a university education. “3 HOURS” focuses on the personal dimension of this “life-and-death matter” by following the lives of 6 high school seniors for a year, observing and witnessing their experiences before, during and after this exam. The thoughts, emotions and experiences of the candidates and those around them are not sifted through any kind of scientific procedure and are represented as directly as possible, as the filmmakers are the observers,ing witnesses, guestsintruders, and guests inof the lives of these young women and men.

an experimental student documentary about the mass exodus of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria to Turkey in the summer of 1989, filmed predominantly at the Bulgarian-Turkish border.