Heading the National Competition jury this year, Ümit Ünal is a film director, writer, and screenwriter, an interdisciplinary artist whose photographs will be on exhibition during the festival this year. The films he wrote and later wrote and directed are have been winning awards globally. He has published five books: a collection of short stories, three novels, and an autobiography. As an artist/illustrator his credits include two personal exhibitions and three illustrated books. At this festival chat which will be moderated by film critic Nil Kural–also an advisor to the Festival–Ümit Ünal will meet with fans and viewers to reveal his creative processes in film-literature-photography-painting, his journey from script to screen, and his long-lasting relation to the festival.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.