Tufan Şimşekcan

Directing

Tufan Şimşekcan

Born

1979-08-06 (47)

Place of birth

Ankara

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

1979 Ankara. Director, Engineer, Graphic Designer. City where he lives; Adana-Istanbul-Ankara. Overseas experience; America-Los Angeles, Boston, Paris, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf as part of Cinema Festivals and Cinema Workshops. Initiative Film Production and Atom Film Co-founder. President of the Mediterranean Cinema Amateurs Association. He has success in many national and international festivals with his short films. He worked as a director's assistant in domestic and foreign feature films. He gave cinema trainings in various EU projects and communication faculties. She works in Festival Organizations and Cinema Films. As a company, he shoots advertisement-promotional films of impo…

Known for

Behind the camera

Kafe poster
4.5

You always tried, always failed; try again, fail again, this time fail better.

Kafe

2010

Kafe poster
4.5

You always tried, always failed; try again, fail again, this time fail better.

Kafe

2010

Effect poster
NR

Supposing you received new eyes, donated by a man who recently died in a car accident This award-winning Turkish film tells the story of the recipient of an eye transplant who starts seeing the last hours of the donor's life through them, including his beautiful wife. An unsettling love story told in reverse.

Effect

2011

Aslı Gibidir poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aslı Gibidir

2021

Mevsimlik Yaşamlar poster
NR

"Seasonal farm worker families talk about their "seasonal life" in the fertile land of Çukurova, Adana."

Mevsimlik Yaşamlar

2018

Stain poster
10.0

A war correspondent is on his way back home, boarding a train at a border station. A stowaway child on the train takes refuge in his compartment, while the security is looking for the kid.

Stain

2018

Stain poster
10.0

A war correspondent is on his way back home, boarding a train at a border station. A stowaway child on the train takes refuge in his compartment, while the security is looking for the kid.

Stain

2018

Solidarity poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solidarity

2023

Ceylin poster
9.0

Ceylin is a fourteen-year-old seasonal agricultural worker living in a tent city. Ceylin, whose only dream is to go to school, knows that this is impossible. Her mother Meryem is bedridden. Her brother Adem has had a troubled life after his military service. Her father Cabbar, an agricultural worker, lives in the hope that one day he will get out of here. A documentary filmmaker named Bilge comes to the tent city. He meets Mehmet Emmi, who is in charge of the workers. As Bilge holds up a mirror to the tent city, one problem after another becomes visible. Everything is revealed with an event that affects Ceylin and the whole tent city.

Ceylin

2023

Ceylin poster
9.0

Ceylin is a fourteen-year-old seasonal agricultural worker living in a tent city. Ceylin, whose only dream is to go to school, knows that this is impossible. Her mother Meryem is bedridden. Her brother Adem has had a troubled life after his military service. Her father Cabbar, an agricultural worker, lives in the hope that one day he will get out of here. A documentary filmmaker named Bilge comes to the tent city. He meets Mehmet Emmi, who is in charge of the workers. As Bilge holds up a mirror to the tent city, one problem after another becomes visible. Everything is revealed with an event that affects Ceylin and the whole tent city.

Ceylin

2023