Nehir Tuna
Directing
Biography
Born in Tekirdag. After graduating from Marmara University, Department of Business Administration, he completed his first master's degree on film at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008. He worked at Greencard Pictures in New York for a while. He directed Sephora and Rootsein webisodes. He was the creative assistant of New York University Professor Marilyn Horowitz. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in film at Columbia University. He continues to work as a freelance advertising director. His first feature project, Yurt, for which he was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2019 and the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Lab in 2020, had its world premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. IMDb mini bio by yusufpiskin
Known For
Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father's behest, fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.
Dormitory
When Ali's father hires a new secretary, she awakens desires in Ali that the shy 22-year-old never knew he had. But working for his father, his mother reminding him he's the right age to marry, and trying to be a good Muslim complicate things. Now he must choose between family duty and true love. Can you really make yourself and your family happy at the same time?
Grandpas Know Best
In a religious dormitory where boys between the age of 10-15 live under the fear of God, the headmaster applies an unconventional method to find the missing shoes which ultimately scares the new boy, Ahmet, to death while teaching a life lesson to Hakan who is the most experienced of all.