Yılmaz Özdil

Known for: Directing
Birthplace: Mardin,Türkiye

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.

Filmography

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The Banishment 2022
Director
The Heavy Burden 2019
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Ugly Ducking 2017
Assistant Director
My Sweet Pepper Land 2014
as Anwar (The Hanged Man), Second Assistant Director
If You Die, I'll Kill You 2011
as Abdullah

Credits from TMDB.