Short Film Competition Selection Committee

Aslı Ildır

After studying Political Science and Film Studies at Boğaziçi University, she completed her MA in Cinema-Television at Bahçeşehir University. She is currently working on her PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp and Koç University and as an co-editor at Altyazı Cinema Magazine, where she is on the editorial board. In 2017, she was selected for the Talent Campus programmes of Berlin Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival as a film critic.

Baran Bozdağ

He was born in 1993 in Istanbul. He graduated from Marmara University Radio Television and Cinema Department. After working in various fields in the cinema industry, he moved to the Netherlands in 2020. He works as a writer and programmer at Chute Film Cooperative, an experimental film collective based in Istanbul and Den Haag, which he co-founded. He is engaged in film production processes and prepares the cinema podcast called Judex Podcast.

Kaan Denk

He was born in Istanbul in 1992. He received his BA in Journalism and MA in Radio-Television and Cinema from Istanbul University Faculty of Communication. Since 2013, he has written and edited articles on cinema for various print and online publications. He took part in the collective author staff of several books and special publications on cinema. He created and hosted various podcasts and a special show for YouTube. He continues to work as the programme coordinator of Accessible Film Festival.