Born in Ermenek, Karaman, in 1974, Emin Alper graduated in economics from Boğaziçi University and later took a PhD in modern Turkish history, teaching at Istanbul Technical University. He made short films before his debut feature Beyond the Hill (2012), which won the Caligari Film Prize at the Berlinale. Frenzy (2015) won the Special Jury Prize at Venice. Burning Days (2022) premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and won him the Golden Orange for best director; it also ran into a demand from the Turkish cinema directorate to repay its production funding.
Filmography
- Tepenin Ardı (2012)
- Abluka (2015)
- Kız Kardeşler (2019)
- Kurak Günler (2022)