Yılmaz Özdil

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My Sweet Pepper Land TrailerIf You Die, I'll Kill You Trailer

Yılmaz Özdil is a film director born in Hakkari (1979). He did his master's degree at the Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University on the geopolitical border treatment in Kurdish cinema. In 2013 he defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The Visual Construction of Kurdish Identities in Cinema" at the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. From 2004 to 2016, he directed several documentary films and also worked as assistant director in several Kurdish films shot in Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan and France. His short film "The Heavy Burden" was screened at more then 100 festivals around the globe and picked up many awards. He is currently working at Mardin Artuklu University as an assistant professor.

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The Heavy Burden Trailer (2019)

17 September 2019

AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey.

My Sweet Pepper Land Trailer (2014)

20 March 2014

Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.

The Banishment Trailer (2022)

01 October 2022

Ziko is a young obsessed sleepwalker who has just been banished from his village for a serious crime.

Ugly Ducking Trailer (2017)

01 December 2017

Eylem is a young woman. She lives in a small Kurdish town and works at a rug workshop. She thinks her nose is too large, and dreams of having cosmetic surgery.

If You Die, I'll Kill You Trailer (2011)

23 March 2011

In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal.