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Çayan Demirel

Director 2 · 2011 – 2025 · 🎬 2

Çayan Demirel is a Kurdish film director best known for his documentaries about the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. His film Prison Number 5 (1980-1984) on the Diyarbakir prison won several awards and he was prosecuted for the documentary Bakur, which focuses on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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