Yusuf Ölmez
- Directing
- Samsun, Türkiye
Biography
Graduated from Boğaziçi University with a major in Management and a minor in Film Studies. After completing his studies in Narrative Filmmaking at Prague Film School, he earned a Master’s degree at Boğaziçi University, focusing on media economics, political economy, and the cinema of Turkey. In 2023, he completed a second Master’s in Visual and Media Anthropology at MU Berlin, where he directed an ethnographic film in Togo. Based in Berlin, he works as a director, producer, and visual anthropologist.
Known for
Filmography
- Forgotten Solidarities · Associate Producer
- Alis · Co-producer
- All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz · Executive producer
- Wall, The Wall · Writer, Director
- Recce · Co-producer
- Distant Close · Director
- Wild Women of Anatolia · Producer
- Deceptive Depths · Producer
- The Breakdown · Producer
- A Glass of Desire · Writer, Director
- Venus in the Fog · Writer, Director
- Wind from the East (or 2021) · Executive producer
- The Cremation Society · Producer