Pelin Esmer

Pelin Esmer

Pelin Esmer, writer & director of both fiction and documentary films, studied sociology and afterwards moved on to cinema. She established her film company Sinefilm and since 2001 she has made her independent films The Collector, The Play, 10 to 11, Watchtower, Something Useful and Queen Lear together with her producer friends Nida Karabol, Tolga Esmer and Dilde Mahalli. A feature documentary, The Play made its international premiere in San Sebastian Film Festival. It has been screened over 50 festivals around the world and received many awards including “The Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award” in Tribeca Film Festival. Her first fiction 10 to 11 was one of the six projects chosen by Cannes Film Festival’s Résidence du Cinéfondation in Paris where she worked on the script. An official selection of San Sebastian Film Festival, 10 to 11 received many awards in various festivals around the world and was released in cinemas in Turkey, France and Germany. Her second fiction Watchtower which premiered in Toronto and Rotterdam Film Festival has been screened in many countries and five different states of USA as part of the Caravanserai Program. Something Useful received the best screenplay award in Tallinn International Film Festival besides several FIPRESCI awards in Turkey: best director, best screenplay and best actress. In 2018, Pelin Esmer was invited to Berlin by DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program where she developed her last documetary film Queen Lear. Having premiered in Sarajevo Film Festival, Queen Lear received Yılmaz Güney Award and SİYAD Cüneyt Cebenoyan Award at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival in Turkey while being screened in oversea festivals. Pelin Esmer was a guest artist in the residence of Camargo Foundation in Cassis-France between september-november 2019, working on her new project.

  • Title: Pelin Esmer
  • Popularity: 1.459
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1972-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Homepage: http://pelinesmer.com/hakkinda/
  • Also Known As: 佩林·埃斯默
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Pelin Esmer Movies

  • 2016
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    Only Blockbusters Left Alive: Monopolizing Film Distribution in Turkey

    Only Blockbusters Left Alive: Monopolizing Film Distribution in Turkey

    6.364 2016 HD

    Turkish film industry has been experiencing a breakthrough in the last ten years. According to 2015 figures, there is a bold uptrend in terms of...

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  • 2022
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    Dream Workers

    Dream Workers

    1 2022 HD

    Dream Workers is an intimate and daring journey into women's creativity, dreams, and unexpected confrontations by life through the intertwined...

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  • 2021
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    You Me Lenin

    You Me Lenin

    6.5 2021 HD

    One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the...

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  • 2009
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    10 to 11

    10 to 11

    6.9 2009 HD

    Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be...

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  • 2012
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    Watchtower

    Watchtower

    7.372 2012 HD

    Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with...

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  • 2012
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    Watchtower

    Watchtower

    7.372 2012 HD

    Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with...

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  • 1970
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    O da Bir Şey mi?

    O da Bir Şey mi?

    1 1970 HD

    Aliye, a young hotel clerk who carries the weight of her name and her life on the streets of a small city, wants to tell her story, which she has...

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  • 1970
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    O da Bir Şey mi?

    O da Bir Şey mi?

    1 1970 HD

    Aliye, a young hotel clerk who carries the weight of her name and her life on the streets of a small city, wants to tell her story, which she has...

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  • 1970
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    O da Bir Şey mi?

    O da Bir Şey mi?

    1 1970 HD

    Aliye, a young hotel clerk who carries the weight of her name and her life on the streets of a small city, wants to tell her story, which she has...

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  • 2017
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    Something Useful

    Something Useful

    7.4 2017 HD

    Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing...

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  • 2017
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    Something Useful

    Something Useful

    7.4 2017 HD

    Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing...

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  • 2017
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    Something Useful

    Something Useful

    7.4 2017 HD

    Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing...

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  • 2017
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    Something Useful

    Something Useful

    7.4 2017 HD

    Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing...

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  • 2019
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    Queen Lear

    Queen Lear

    6.333 2019 HD

    Shakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking...

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  • 2005
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    The Play

    The Play

    6.429 2005 HD

    When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their...

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  • 2002
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    The Collector

    The Collector

    5.7 2002 HD

    This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who...

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  • 2002
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    The Collector

    The Collector

    5.7 2002 HD

    This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who...

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  • 2009
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    10 to 11

    10 to 11

    6.9 2009 HD

    Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be...

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  • 2009
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    10 to 11

    10 to 11

    6.9 2009 HD

    Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be...

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  • 2009
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    10 to 11

    10 to 11

    6.9 2009 HD

    Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be...

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  • 2005
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    The Play

    The Play

    6.429 2005 HD

    When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their...

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  • 2002
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    The Collector

    The Collector

    5.7 2002 HD

    This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who...

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  • 2005
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    The Play

    The Play

    6.429 2005 HD

    When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their...

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  • 2005
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    The Play

    The Play

    6.429 2005 HD

    When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their...

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  • 2005
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    The Play

    The Play

    6.429 2005 HD

    When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their...

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