Kaan Müjdeci

Kaan Müjdeci divides his time between Istanbul, Türkiye, and Berlin, Germany. His feature debut Sivas premiered at the 71st Venice Film Festival in the Main Competition and was awarded the Special Jury Prize. In 2015, Sivas was the official nominee from Türkiye for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. His first exhibition, Iguana Tokyo Prologue, opened in Tokyo Art and Space in 2017. His second feature film Iguana Tokyo was selected to Cannes Cinefondation L'Atelier at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, and later to Venice Gap-Financing Market at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. In 2021, Müjdeci wrote and directed a seven-part series, based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. It had its world premiere at Series Mania in Lille, France.