Zeki Demirkubuz

Zeki Demirkubuz(born 1964)

He graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Communications. He began his film career as assistant director to Zeki Ökten in 1986, and worked as assistant director for various directors until making Block-C (1994), his first feature film. After this first film, Demirkubuz continued to work as an auteur and independent filmmaker writing his own original screenplays. Film critics and international audiences noticed Demirkubuz with his second film, Innocence (1997) which was screened at Venice IFF and The Third Page (1999) which was screened at several festivals in Turkey and Europe, including Locarno and Rotterdam. Following The Third Page, Demirkubuz started to work on his trilogy called Tales of Darkness. The first two parts of the trilogy Fate (2001) and Confession (2001) were screened at Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2002. The Waiting Room (2003) in which Demirkubuz also played the leading role, concluded the trilogy. Destiny (2006), the prequel to Innocence, Envy (2009), has been followed by Inside (2012), Nausea (2015), Ember (2016).

Filmography

Block C (1994), Innocence (Masumiyet) (1997), The Third Page (1999), Confession (2001), Fate (2001), The Waiting Room (2003), Destiny (2006), Envy  (2009), Inside (2012), Nausea (2015), Ember (2016).