Özcan Alper
October 13, 1975 · 50 years old
Özcan Alper (b. 1975 Hopa, Artvin) is a Turkish director and screenwriter. He was born in Hopa district of Artvin. He graduated from Trabzon High School. In 1992, he started at Istanbul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. In 1996, he entered Istanbul University, Faculty of Letter…
Known For
5 titles
Sonbahar
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
The Festival of Troubadours
An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival
Memories of the Wind
Addresses the issues of ethnicity and belonging and conveys how it feels to be across the borders, not only in terms of dislocating out of the borders of a country but also in terms of struggling to exist at the margins of a society.
Black Night
Becoming part of a collective anger, Ishak copes with his conscience in a small village in Anatolia and struggles with the violence of collective silence.
Future Lasts Forever
Sumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country for a few months. The brief...