Zeki Demirkubuz was born in Isparta on 1 October, 1964. He graduated from the Department of Communications at Istanbul University. He began his career as an assistant to director, Zeki Okten in 1986. Then Demirkubuz established his own production company “Mavi Film”. He followed his first film, Block C (C Blok) in 1994, with Innocence (Masumiyet) (1997), The Third Page (Üçüncü Sayfa) (1999), Fate (Yazgı) (2001), Confession (Itiraf) (2001) and The Waiting Room (Bekleme Odası) (2003). His works have mainly been based on original screenplays conceived and written by Demirkubuz himself. Demirkubuz first gained the notice of film critics and international audiences with Innocence (Masumiyet), which was screened at numerous festivals and distributed in Turkey and Europe. This was followed but the successful reception of Fate (Yazgı) and Confession (Itiraf), which were both screened at Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
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With the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe
