Name
Yılmaz Özdil
Known For
Directing
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
Mardin,Türkiye
Biography
Yılmaz Özdil is a film director born in Hakkari (1979). He did his master's degree at the Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University on the geopolitical border treatment in Kurdish cinema. In 2013 he defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The Visual Construction of Kurdish Identities in Cinema" at the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. From 2004 to 2016, he directed several documentary films and also worked as assistant director in several Kurdish films shot in Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan and France. His short film "The Heavy Burden" was screened at more then 100 festivals around the globe and picked up many awards. He is currently working at Mardin Artuklu University as an assistant professor.
Known For
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Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chie...
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In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of pris...
- 2014 My Sweet Pepper Land as Anwar (The Hanged Man)
- 2011 If You Die, I'll Kill You as Abdullah
