A. Halûk Ünal

Directing

A. Halûk Ünal

Place of birth

Ankara, Turkey

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Hidden Lives poster
6.5

An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.

Hidden Lives

2011

Hidden Lives poster
6.5

An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.

Hidden Lives

2011

Esrarlı Gözler poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Esrarlı Gözler

2008

Esrarlı Gözler poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Esrarlı Gözler

2008

Little Black Fishes poster
6.0

A documentary about children in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey.

Little Black Fishes

2014

Diploma of Madness poster
6.5

Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?

Diploma of Madness

1998

Çökertme poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Çökertme

1997

Inside the Women’s Army poster
NR

The story of Jiyan Tolhildan who fights for women’s freedom and against ISIS. This is a shortened TV version of the documentary film “Jiyan’s Story”.

Inside the Women’s Army

2019

Jiyan's Story poster
9.0

The fascinating story of Jiyan, a female guerrilla fighter who devoted twenty years of her life in the Kurdish militant struggle, reveals women’s determination for freedom not only against another oppressive regime, but also against the patriarchy. Jiyan Tolhildan is a young Kurdish woman living in the Kurdish region of Syria. After years of oppression by her family, her teachers and the society as a whole, Jiyan decides to go to the mountains to join the Kurdish struggle for freedom. When the Arab Spring breaks out Jiyan and her friends decide to go into the cities in Syria to join the protests. They also set out to educate Syrian women on women’s rights in the Rojava region. Now, six years after the Arab Spring, Kurdish forces have a semi-autonomous region in Syria. For the first time in history, women have an autonomous political organisation and an army in Syria. The women named creating this organisation “the women’s revolution.”

Jiyan's Story

2017