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  • Nursel Köse

    Nursel Köse

    Born in Malatya. She moved to Germany at the age of 17. She studied architecture at Cologne University and worked as an architect for a while. In 1992 she co-founded the first cabaret group consisted of foreign women called Yerkozmetikçileri with Serpil Pak in Germany. She earned great success with this cabaret in Berlin. Along with acting, she performed stand-up shows and wrote poems and radio plays. She went on tour between 1992-2007 in Germany and German speaking countries. She managed many women theater groups in Germany. She gained worldwide recognition with her role in the film The Edge of Heaven (2007), winning Best Supporting Actress awards from various festivals. In 2013, she wrote and directed a short film called Wreck. With her role in the film The Lamb, she won the Best Supporting Actress award from Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in 2014. She continues acting in the theater plays, TV series and movies. 

  • Ramin Matin

    Ramin Matin

    Born in 1977. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Cinema at Loyola Marymount University and holds a master’s degree from the Istanbul Bilgi University Film Department. He is one of the founders of Giyotin Film established in 2005. His first feature The Monsters’ Dinner (2011) won various awards at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Montpellier Cinemed Film Festival and Ankara International Film Festival. His second film, The Impeccables (2013), premiered in Busan Film Festival and received Best Film and Best Director Awards at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Having directed short documentaries for Discovery Europe channel, Matin is one of the 5 directors of the compilation film Coastliners (2016). He is still working on his feature film projects, The Last Exit and The Steam. 

  • Murat Özer

    Murat Özer

    After Arka Pencere, the weekly online magazine has started to be published as a monthly hard-copy magazine as APM Arka Pencere Mecmua, he started to work as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. He hopes to maintain this partnership he established with his longtime colleagues Bilgehan Aras and Burçin S. Yalçın. Having been working as a film critic since 1990, Özer was the Chairman of the Board of SİYAD (Film Critics Association) between December 2007 - December 2010. Standing out with his ‘persistency’ on archiving, Özer feels ‘guilty’ because of his incomplete books and scripts drafts, and he feels like he will ‘die in disappointment’ if he doesn’t do anything about it.