Serhat KARAASLAN

Serhat Karaaslan was born in 1984 in Varto, Turkey. He moved to Istanbul to study at the Faculty of Pharmacology at Istanbul University. After his graduation, he made his first short film. He was then accepted to the master’s program for Directors of Film & Drama at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He made two more shorts, Bicycle (2010) and Musa (2012), while earning his degree. His most recent short film, Ice Cream, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival Short Cuts Competition in 2014. His short films have won more than 50 awards and have been screened at major film festivals, including Toronto, Locarno, Thessaloniki, Montpellier and Istanbul. In 2014, he has participated in Festival del film Locarno Filmmakers Academy. He has been selected for Berlinale Talent Campus 2015. His first feature film project “Passed by Censor” has been selected for Berlinale Talent Project Market 2015.

Currently, he’s been working on his project, Passed by Censor.

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