Zeki Demirkubuz

Directing

Zeki Demirkubuz

Born 1964-10-01 · Isparta, Turkey

Zeki Demirkubuz (born 25 July 1964) is one of Turkey’s prominent film directors. His retrospectives have been shown at the Viennnale, Boston Museum of Art, Toronto Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, University of Michigan, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Brussels Cinematheque, and New Horizons Film Festival, Cluj Film Festival among others. Fate (2001) and Confession (2001) were screened in the "Un Certain Regard" section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. Following The Waiting Room (2003), in which he also played the lead role, he directed Destiny (2006), which tells the prequel story of Innocence; he subsequently directed the films Envy (2009), Inside (2012), Nausea (2015), and Ember (2016).

Acting credits

Nausea poster
5.8

Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.

Nausea

2015

Block C poster
6.5

Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.

Block C

1994

The Waiting Room poster
6.2

Ahmet, a filmmaker on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', sinks into depression, alienates loved ones, and abandons his film.

The Waiting Room

2004

The Third Page poster
7.0

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.

The Third Page

1999

Destiny poster
7.4

Bekir loves Uğur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Uğur disappears.

Destiny

2006

At the Bar poster
6.4

A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center where they do not belong, where they are excluded. They adopted a brutal method to seize rights that were not granted to them. Unaware of what will happen to them, cheerful and well-to-do university students are helpless in the face of this gun-wielding mob that suddenly raids the bar where they are having fun.

At the Bar

2007

Asi Ruh poster
NR

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Asi Ruh

2008

Yoksul poster
6.9

A kind-hearted tea maker works in a bustling commercial inn, where his good nature makes him an easy target. The business owner takes advantage of his generosity, while the woman he loves manipulates him for money, playing on his trust. As he faces these challenges, his simple routine slowly begins to shift, leading to unexpected turns that force him to rethink his place in the world.

Yoksul

1986

Behind the camera

Envy poster
5.6

Seniha lives with her brother Halit and his wife Mükerrem. When Nüzhet, the handsome son of the richest family in town, sets his eyes on the married Mükerrem, she is at first disgusted with Nüzhet’s overt sexual innuendo. However, it isn’t long before Mükerrem yields to her lust and thus they embark on an affair. When Seniha finally reveals her sister-in-law’s un-virtuousness to her brother, Seniha has no idea what the consequences will be and how cruelly her destiny will change.

Envy

2009

Envy poster
5.6

Seniha lives with her brother Halit and his wife Mükerrem. When Nüzhet, the handsome son of the richest family in town, sets his eyes on the married Mükerrem, she is at first disgusted with Nüzhet’s overt sexual innuendo. However, it isn’t long before Mükerrem yields to her lust and thus they embark on an affair. When Seniha finally reveals her sister-in-law’s un-virtuousness to her brother, Seniha has no idea what the consequences will be and how cruelly her destiny will change.

Envy

2009

Innocence poster
7.6

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…

Innocence

1997

Innocence poster
7.6

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…

Innocence

1997

Innocence poster
7.6

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…

Innocence

1997

Life poster
6.8

Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the situation and embarks on a long search for her in Istanbul.

Life

2023

Life poster
6.8

Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the situation and embarks on a long search for her in Istanbul.

Life

2023

Life poster
6.8

Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the situation and embarks on a long search for her in Istanbul.

Life

2023

Nausea poster
5.8

Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.

Nausea

2015

Nausea poster
5.8

Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.

Nausea

2015

Inside poster
6.8

Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.

Inside

2012

Inside poster
6.8

Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.

Inside

2012

Inside poster
6.8

Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.

Inside

2012

Fate poster
7.2

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

Fate

2001

Fate poster
7.2

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

Fate

2001

Fate poster
7.2

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

Fate

2001

Block C poster
6.5

Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.

Block C

1994

Block C poster
6.5

Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.

Block C

1994

Block C poster
6.5

Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.

Block C

1994

The Waiting Room poster
6.2

Ahmet, a filmmaker on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', sinks into depression, alienates loved ones, and abandons his film.

The Waiting Room

2004

The Waiting Room poster
6.2

Ahmet, a filmmaker on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', sinks into depression, alienates loved ones, and abandons his film.

The Waiting Room

2004

The Waiting Room poster
6.2

Ahmet, a filmmaker on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', sinks into depression, alienates loved ones, and abandons his film.

The Waiting Room

2004

The Third Page poster
7.0

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.

The Third Page

1999

The Third Page poster
7.0

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.

The Third Page

1999