Kazım Öz

Kazım Öz

52 (1973-01-01)
Tunceli, Turkey

Kazım Öz is an awarded Kurdish director, scriptwriter, and producer. He started to produce art with Kurdish theater. In the 1990s, he continued to work with Yapım 13 Production Company which is affiliated with Mesopotamia Culture Center. His short film Ax (Land, 1999) received many awards in A-class film festivals. He shot his first feature film Photograph in 2002.

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Journey to the Sun 1999 (5.8)

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.
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The Storm 2008 (7.8)

Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.
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Zer 2017 (6.2)

Zer is the story of a song, whispered to Jan's ear on his grandmother's deathbed. A survivor of Dersim Massacre, Zarife hid her identity, her past in her memory of this song. Raised in NYC, Jan begins a journey through Kurdistan, searching for his grandma's past and his own self.
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Ankara - Heart of Turkey 1934 (4.7)

A Soviet documentary made for the 10th anniversary of the new Turkish Republic in the year 1934.