Born in Istanbul in 1981, Tolga Karaçelik took a law degree in Turkey and studied film in New York. His debut Toll Booth (Gişe Memuru, 2010) won the Golden Orange for best first film. Ivy (Sarmaşık, 2015), set on a ship adrift at sea, won him the Golden Orange for best director, and Butterflies (2018) won the Grand Jury Award for world cinema at Sundance. He directed the Netflix series Yakamoz S-245 (2022) and the film Psycho Therapy (2024).
Filmography
- Gişe Memuru (2010)
- Sarmaşık (2015)
- Kelebekler (2018)
- Psycho Therapy (2024)