Nurşen Bakır

Nurşen Bakır is a Turkish documentary and experimental filmmaker born in 1962 in İznik. She began studying Philosophy at Hacettepe University in Ankara but left to pursue cinema in the United States, where she earned a BA in Film and Video from the City University of New York (1992) and an M.F.A in Cinema from San Francisco State University (2002).
Her filmography spans three decades, from early 16mm works like Sounds of Euphrates (1990) to more recent documentaries such as Şu Fatsa'nın Yolları (2021), frequently exploring themes of memory, displacement, and social issues. Since 2005, she has been a lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University and remains active within the Sine-Yol documentary collective.