Born in Ankara, in 1944, Kavur was raised in Istanbul. After studying journalism and sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Ecudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he went on to study film yat the Conservatoire Independent du Cinema Français. He started his master's on Film History at Sorbonne but has not completed it.

He returned to Turkey in 1971 and began making documentaries and commercials. In 1974, he made his first feature film, Yatık Emine / Emine. Kavur's earlier films are works that haunt you long after you have seen them; films that make you question the meaning of your own life as well as of the lives of his bizarre heroes only in death - or in conformity. A number of his films received awards at the Antalya Film Festival. Körebe / Blindfold (1984), Amansız Yol / Desperate Road (1985) and Gece Yolculuğu / Night Journey (1987) won prizes given by the Ministry of Culture. He has also received the Best Turkish Film of the Year Award four times at Istanbul Film Festival. A director of renown, he has won worldwide recognition and several retrospectives of his films have been held in different countries such as Germany, Portugal, France, Morocco, Finland, India, Greece, Holland, Italy, USA, Canada.

Kavur warns his foreign audience against searching for known references in his films. "They are difficult to find if you don't know Turkish culture... What influences me most is the search of an individual for his own cultural identity." In the universality of that search lies the quality and the beauty of Ömer Kavur's films.

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