Director Bilal Korkut's greeting to NYKFF7
The NYKFF7 is thrilled to have the honor to screen Bilal Korkut’s film The Hole in the Wall in October. Director Korkut has sent greetings to the Film Festival–watch the video here! The video is in Kurmanci, with English subtitles.
Bilal Korkut will appear at the festival in person for a Q&A after the screening of his film.
Bilal Korkut was born in 1987 in Nusaybin district in Mardin province. He graduated from Dicle University’s Turkish Education Department in 2009. He earned an MA degree from the Kurdology Institute of Artuklu University in 2015. He directed several plays including We Are Neighbors, Women’s Tales, Grandma and the Fox, and The Little Prince. In 2016 he began studies in the film and television department at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in İstanbul but left the program to return to Mardin, where he enrolled in a graduate program in the communications department of Mardin Artuklu University. He lives in Mardin where he studies and works as a secondary-school language arts teacher
Bilal Korkut li sala 1987an li Nisêbîna Bakorê Kurdistanê ji dayîk bûye. Derçûyê zanîngeha Dîcle/ beşa ziman li sala 2009a ye. MD di beşa Kurdolojî yê de li zanîngeha Mêrdînê wegirtîye. Beşa Sînema û Televzonê li zanîngeha Mîmar Sînan xwendîye lê berî ku xwendina xwe bi dawî bîne, vedigere Mêrdînê û niha beşa Sînemayê de MD dike.
بیلال کۆرکوت لە ساڵی 1987 لە شاری نیسێبینا باکۆری کوردستان لەدایک
بووە. لە ساڵی ٢٠٠٩ لە زانکۆی دیکل/ بەشی زمان دەرچووە. دکتۆرای لە بەشی
کوردۆلۆژی لە زانکۆی ماردین وەرگرتووە. بەشی سینەما و تەلەفزیۆنی لە
زانکۆی میمار سینان خوێندوویەتی، بەڵام پێش ئەوەی خوێندنەکەی تەواو بکات،
گەڕاوەتەوە بۆ ماردین و ئێستا لە بەشی سینەما دکتۆرایە.
