Kizil Goncalar Episode 30 English Subtitles

Ömür has also worked with Zeki Demirkubuz, another highly decorated, illustrious name in Turkish cinema. His film “Hayat” is chosen as Turkey’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards to be held in 2025. Of working with Demirkubuz, Ömür says, “When I was working as an assistant in commercials, there was a period when I worked as an assistant to Zeki Demirkubuz, who was also my teacher. Before that, when I was a student, I had seen Zeki Demirkubuz's first film C Blok in the cinema and admired it. I remember thinking to myself that this must be cinema. Later, I had the chance to work with Zeki Hoca.”

The pedigree of Ömür’s training shows in the sophistication of his frames. As he gained more experience, he moved from being an assistant to starting to direct TV series. The longer form of storytelling in dizis appealed to him. Of the completed dizi projects he has worked on thus far, he mentions An Istanbul Tale as leaving an impression.

Kızıl Goncalar: The Director’s Cut

Since December 2023, Gold Yapim-produced Kızıl Goncalar has made its mark as a greatly discussed series that addresses important, contemporary social issues through a fictional lens. With a rich screenplay, the series showcases the philosophical and physical conflicts between the secular and the religious in Türkiye. Though set in Istanbul, where we see a fictitious Sufi tariqah clash against a Kemalist family, the theme is not uncommon in the Western world, where deepening divides between the conservative and the liberal also manifest in various ways. Ömür is co-directing the show with Özgür Sevimli.

Ömür says, “When Kızıl Goncalar was mentioned to me as a project in its first form, to be honest, I was not interested without thinking too deeply about the project’s potential. Later, when the screenplay was a little deeper, I had the chance to read it again. This time, I read it from a very different perspective, and it definitely piqued my interest. What changed my mind was the overlap of the project with our current life and the unique flair of its intended messages. It was a project that involved risks for all of us, including a risk of commercial failure, but our producer, screenwriter and our team all believed in Kızıl Goncalar. I can say that its success was, therefore, no surprise.