Directing
Enis Rıza
Place of birth
Ankara, Türkiye
Known for
Directing
Credits
3 titles
Enis Rıza, Turkish documentary filmmaker, educator, writer. He studied at Galatasaray High School. In 1969, he started working on documentary and short films with the ‘Genç Sinema’ group. He gave lectures on photography, cinema and documentary cinema at various schools and institutions. In 1996, he was among the founders of the Association of Documentary Filmmakers. He organises the ‘Documentary Days with Enis Rıza Sakızlı’ event organised by Ece Ayhan Civil Initiative.
Known for
NRThe 1st National Children's Congress, which was held for the first time in Istanbul in 1991, is a platform where the problems in the world are determined and discussed by children. The documentary asks, "What kind of world do we want to live in?" and looks at the answers from children's perspectives.
Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon
1991
6.0Survivors tell the inside story of the massacre of the leftist students at Istanbul University on 16 March 1978 and the political atmosphere before the coup of 12 September 1980.
Remembering 16 March
2014
10.0This story is about a beggar, a thief, and a child working on the street, a paper garbage collector, a leftist, a Muslim, a father, and a second-hand book dealer… Oktay Çetinkaya, full of life, tells us the stories of back streets, ghosts with whom he shared his own history, living as one of them.
Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage
2011
Behind the camera
NRThe 1st National Children's Congress, which was held for the first time in Istanbul in 1991, is a platform where the problems in the world are determined and discussed by children. The documentary asks, "What kind of world do we want to live in?" and looks at the answers from children's perspectives.
Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon
1991
6.0Survivors tell the inside story of the massacre of the leftist students at Istanbul University on 16 March 1978 and the political atmosphere before the coup of 12 September 1980.
Remembering 16 March
2014
10.0This story is about a beggar, a thief, and a child working on the street, a paper garbage collector, a leftist, a Muslim, a father, and a second-hand book dealer… Oktay Çetinkaya, full of life, tells us the stories of back streets, ghosts with whom he shared his own history, living as one of them.
Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage
2011