Kivilcim Akay, Director in Turkey

Amina (2019) Director | Screenwriter

Amina is a 29-year-old Senegalese woman who works as a dress model in a textile company in Istanbul. Leaving her daughter behind, she immigrated to Turkey 7 years ago to earn money and to take care of her daughter’s needs. Amina faces many challenges each day in Turkey as an African woman. While she fights against these difficulties she’s going through with the hope that she will go back to her daughter and her country, she also dreams of being a real model one day. As an immigrant, Amina is in two minds between her realities and her dreams.

My Wish is Peace (Dileğim Barış Olsun) (2014) Director | Producer | Screenwriter

The story of 10 children and 3 mothers from Diyarbakır, Lice, Ergani, Cizre, Mardin, Nusaybin, Kızıltepe and Varto... The children, the biggest victims of a 30 year ongoing war and mothers who shed tears the most, are telling how much they expect peace with a great hope and craving. The common wish of the speakers in the movie is peace, despite all the sufferings they had. This wish for peace is not just for the region, it's for the whole world. The documentary becomes a ray of hope for pessimists who think that the peace will never come, through telling the life experiences of those behind the mountains.

A Hundred Years Of Fashion (Modanın 100 Yılı) (2013) Director | Producer

4 Episode / TV Series