Fırat Yücel

Firat YÜCEL is a documentary producer and editor who lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. He is also the curator behind the video series Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema, which is part of the Altyazı Cinema Association, dedicated to supporting political film and video makers at risk in Turkey and elsewhere. His work is centred around collective filmmaking and resistance against censorship, while his documentaries focus on topics like exile, surveillance and the right to the city – in forms including the video essay, desktop documentary and biopic, among others. Yücel is part of the BAK Cell, Utrecht, in the Fellowship for Situated Practice. The feature documentary he co-directed with Image Acts Collective, Translating Ulysses (2023), received awards at Bloomsday Film Festival, Dublin and FIC.UBA, Buenos Aires.

Filmography

Kapali Gise (co-dir. 2016, doc), Bastan basa (co-dir. 2019, doc), The Thing That Goes Through Everything (co-dir. 2022, short doc), March 8, 2020: A Memoir (2023, short doc), Translating Ulysses (co-dir. 2023, doc), Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship (co-dir. 2024)