EMİNE YILDIRIM
European Union, 2026
After graduating from the Department of Business Administration at Middle East Technical University, Emine Yıldırım completed her master’s degree in Cinema at Istanbul Bilgi University. She has worked in Turkish cinema for more than twenty years as a director, producer and screenwriter.
She directed and produced her first feature film, Gündüz Apollon Gece Athena (2024), which won Best Film in the Asian Future section of the 2024 Tokyo Film Festival and the Film Critics Association (SİYAD) Award in 2025. She previously produced award-winning films including Son Çıkış (2018, Tokyo Film Festival Main Competition), Kusursuzlar (2013), Ziazan (2014, Cannes Diversity) and Gri Bölge (2015, Berlin Film Festival Generation). Her screenplay for Kusursuzlar won Best Screenplay at the Ankara Film Festival and the Flying Broom Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award.
As a director, she also made the experimental documentary Androktones (2018), screened at Pera Museum and Korea’s CICA Museum, as well as the short film Kadıköy’ün En İyi Falcısı.
Yıldırım currently teaches screenwriting at the Department of Cinema and Television at Kadir Has University and has also been performing stand-up comedy for the past five years.
