Enis Rıza
Directing
Biography
Enis Rıza, Turkish documentary filmmaker, educator, writer. He studied at Galatasaray High School. In 1969, he started working on documentary and short films with the ‘Genç Sinema’ group. He gave lectures on photography, cinema and documentary cinema at various schools and institutions. In 1996, he was among the founders of the Association of Documentary Filmmakers. He organises the ‘Documentary Days with Enis Rıza Sakızlı’ event organised by Ece Ayhan Civil Initiative.
Known For
Survivors tell the inside story of the massacre of the leftist students at Istanbul University on 16 March 1978 and the political atmosphere before the coup of 12 September 1980.
Remembering 16 March
This documentary presents the past and present of Istanbul’s famed Grand Bazaar, whose history spans nearly five centuries. The film offers an intimate portrait of the bazaar through the perspective of a sherbet seller who has walked its streets for forty years, capturing the rhythms of daily life and the continuity of tradition within one of the city’s most enduring cultural spaces.
40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar
This story is about a beggar, a thief, and a child working on the street, a paper garbage collector, a leftist, a Muslim, a father, and a second-hand book dealer… Oktay Çetinkaya, full of life, tells us the stories of back streets, ghosts with whom he shared his own history, living as one of them.
Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage
The 1st National Children's Congress, which was held for the first time in Istanbul in 1991, is a platform where the problems in the world are determined and discussed by children. The documentary asks, "What kind of world do we want to live in?" and looks at the answers from children's perspectives.