About the Author
Born in Istanbul in 1990, Selin Öksüzoğlu moved to France in 2011 and studied psychology. She worked for several years with people in exile and young people placed in foster care, while writing. A resident of La Ruche Gindou Cinéma (2019), she directed Adieu Tortue (2024), presented at Berlinale Shorts 2024. She is currently developing new fiction and documentary projects.
Developed Projects
Genco, a teenage orphan of Turkish origin, begins an internship on a construction site in France, within a community of Turkish workers. He finds refuge with Murat, his supervisor, and Yesim, his wife, until the arrival of their son shatters this illusion of family. As Genco falters, Yesim’s childhood resurfaces in an ambiguous temporality: in a Turkish village, a little girl refuses to let her sister go far from her.
From Script to Screen
