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Ceylan Özgün Özçelik

Born February 3, 1980 · Rize, Türkiye (age 46)

Born in 1980, in Turkey. Özçelik studied law at the Marmara University in Istanbul, but never practiced. After working as a text writer in TV channels and as a DJ in a radio station, started to produce, write and host a TV show on cinema called “En Heyecanlı Yeri”, which was aired for almost ten years. Add to that she produced and wrote four other culture-art TV programmes. For fourteen years, s…

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Witch Trilogy 13+

Witch Trilogy 13+ · 2019

Witch Trilogy 13+

MovieDramaHorror

A fourteen-year old girl communicates with a spider in a dark basement, without knowing the time and place.

Witch Trilogy 15+

Witch Trilogy 15+ · 2022

Witch Trilogy 15+

MovieDocumentary

Witch Trilogy 15+ tells the story of two women who killed their husbands who were violent to them. Aylin and Eve share their home, love, anger, childhood, children, dreams and nightmares. The documentary travels through genres from thriller to experimental as it conveys the emotions that Aylin and Eve have decanted into the letters. He questions the finding of two women “guilty” in the time-and-space-free cycle of violence.

Dump of Untitled Pieces

Dump of Untitled Pieces · 2025

Dump of Untitled Pieces

MovieComedyDrama

Facing imminent eviction, an idealistic young photographer and her hapless roommate attempt to sell her work to galleries for the first time, embarking on a bumpy journey through the collapsing art market of Istanbul.

Ada

Ada spends one last day with her mother…underwater.

Strange, Abandoned, Deranged

Strange, Abandoned, Deranged · 2024

Strange, Abandoned, Deranged

MovieDocumentaryMystery

Turkey's first “eco” hotel, Naturland Eco Park and Resort, opened in 1991 and operated until 2014. A hybrid of documentary, black satirical comedy and circus-style performance, the film builds on fictional voice-overs that depict the experiences of hotel guests and staff and the gradual decay of the once-pompous and now dilapidated abandoned complex, which was closed due to overwhelming debts and left virtually untouched.

Inflame

Inflame · 2017

MovieThrillerDrama

Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?

In Ten Seconds

In Ten Seconds · 2024

MovieDramaThriller

The struggle of a mother and guidance counselor who will do anything to get her child back to school, expelled from William College, one of the best and most prestigious schools in the country, for a crime she committed.

Ankebût

Ankebût · 2020

MovieDocumentary

A woman, released from prison, drifts between nightmare and reality.

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Witch Trilogy 13+

Witch Trilogy 13+ · 2019

Witch Trilogy 13+

MovieDramaHorror

A fourteen-year old girl communicates with a spider in a dark basement, without knowing the time and place.

Director

Witch Trilogy 15+

Witch Trilogy 15+ · 2022

Witch Trilogy 15+

MovieDocumentary

Witch Trilogy 15+ tells the story of two women who killed their husbands who were violent to them. Aylin and Eve share their home, love, anger, childhood, children, dreams and nightmares. The documentary travels through genres from thriller to experimental as it conveys the emotions that Aylin and Eve have decanted into the letters. He questions the finding of two women “guilty” in the time-and-space-free cycle of violence.

Director

Dump of Untitled Pieces

Dump of Untitled Pieces · 2025

Dump of Untitled Pieces

MovieComedyDrama

Facing imminent eviction, an idealistic young photographer and her hapless roommate attempt to sell her work to galleries for the first time, embarking on a bumpy journey through the collapsing art market of Istanbul.

Nurdan

Ada

Ada spends one last day with her mother…underwater.

Director

Strange, Abandoned, Deranged

Strange, Abandoned, Deranged · 2024

Strange, Abandoned, Deranged

MovieDocumentaryMystery

Turkey's first “eco” hotel, Naturland Eco Park and Resort, opened in 1991 and operated until 2014. A hybrid of documentary, black satirical comedy and circus-style performance, the film builds on fictional voice-overs that depict the experiences of hotel guests and staff and the gradual decay of the once-pompous and now dilapidated abandoned complex, which was closed due to overwhelming debts and left virtually untouched.

Director

Inflame

Inflame · 2017

MovieThrillerDrama

Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?

Director

In Ten Seconds

In Ten Seconds · 2024

MovieDramaThriller

The struggle of a mother and guidance counselor who will do anything to get her child back to school, expelled from William College, one of the best and most prestigious schools in the country, for a crime she committed.

Director

Ankebût

Ankebût · 2020

MovieDocumentary

A woman, released from prison, drifts between nightmare and reality.

Director

By Any Means Necessary

By Any Means Necessary · 2011

By Any Means Necessary

Director

7 Faces

7 Faces · 2017

SeriesDramaMystery

Featuring seven different yet intertwined stories of modern life in Istanbul, 7 Faces is a thought-provoking drama centering on seven characters living in the same city apartment building. Each of them faces a major change in their lives, which requires them to confront their biggest fear or weakness.

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