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- Born in Isparta
in 1964, Demirkubuz is a graduate of the Istanbul University
Department of Communications. He began his career as an assistant to
director Zeki Okten. His first film, Block C
(C Blok), and his later works have mainly been based on original
screenplays conceived and written by Demirkubuz himself.
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- Demirkubuz
first gained the notice of film critics and international audiences
with Innocence (Masumiyet) and later with The Third
Page(Ucuncu Sayfa), which were screened at numerous film festivals in Turkey
and Europe, including the film festivals of Venice, Locarno and
Rotterdam and the Boston Turkish Film
Festival.
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- This was followed by the
successful reception of Fate
(Yazgi) and Confession (Itiraf),
which were among the films of the 2nd Boston Turkish Film Festival, and
both films were s creened at Un
Certain Regard at Cannes. Fate and Confession, are the first two features in Tales
About Darkness, a trilogy set to conclude with The Waiting
Room (Bekleme odası). With Fate and Confession, Zeki
Demirkubuz has become the first director to have two films screened
at the same time in Cannes.
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- Demirkubuz won a FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) Award and
the Best Director prize at the Istanbul
Film Festival for Fate
and Confession. Fate also won Best Director and Best 3rd Film awards, and
the Jury
Special Award at the 38th
Golden Orange Film Festival in Antalya, Turkey.
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- Filmography:
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- 1994 Block C (C Blok)
- 1997 Innocence (Masumiyet)
- 1999 The Third Page (Ucuncu Sayfa)
- 2001 Fate (Yazgi)
- 2001 Confession (Itiraf)
- 2003 The Waiting Room (Bekleme odası)
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