
Selman Nacar
Directing
Biography
Selman Nacar is a filmmaker, with an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University in New York City. He gave lectures on fictional filmmaking at the same university. He graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law in 2015 and from the Faculty of Film in 2016. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents 2019 and the First Films First 2020. Nacar’s debut Between Two Dawns premiered at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival and received many awards, including the Best Film Award at the 39th Torino Film Festival. Nacar’s second film premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival, and received many awards, including the Best Film Award at the 19th Zurich Film Festival, Best Screenplay Award at APSA also known as Asian Oscars. He is the writer & director of the Netflix Original Series Istanbul Encyclopedia, which will be released in 2025. - IMDb Mini Biography By: kuyufilm
Known For

A young student moves in with an estranged family friend in Istanbul, trading her humble hometown for a city that tests her identity — and convictions.
Istanbul Encyclopedia

After a worker is severely injured in their family business, Kadir is forced into making a moral decision, which will have an impact on his dreams, his family, and the life of injured worker’s wife
Between Two Dawns
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Palas Pandıras

A criminal lawyer Canan, divides her time in the courthouse and mother's hospital bed at night. She has to make a moral choice that will affect lives of her mother, judge and murder suspect client.
Hesitation Wound

A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.