Writer & Director · Istanbul
Debut feature Hakkı (2024), now streaming on MUBI.
Premiered internationally at Vancouver, Santa Barbara, Shanghai and Oldenburg. Audience Award & FİLM-YÖN Best Director, Adana Golden Boll · Best National First Feature, Kocaeli · Grand Bridge Award, Dumbo New York.
Selected for the Film Market, 42nd Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
A portrait of the poet Didem Madak.
First Prize, Interuniversity Short Film Competition, 15th Frankfurt Turkish Film Festival.
Next Feature · In Development
Surface Tension / Yüzey Gerilimi
Psychological Thriller · Coming-of-Age · Sports Drama
Fifteen days before the freediving championship that could carry her out of her small Aegean town forever, nineteen-year-old Nare discovers she is pregnant — and in a town where her father has access to every medical record she leaves behind, the only place left to escape is beneath the water.
Hikmet Kerem Özcan is a writer-director born in İzmir in 1991, based in Istanbul.
He studied screenwriting and directing at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey's oldest fine arts institution, founded in 1882, where he made a series of award-winning short films.
His debut feature Hakkı (2024) premiered at Vancouver, Santa Barbara, Shanghai and Oldenburg, won the Audience Award and FİLM-YÖN Best Director at the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, and streams on MUBI.
He is currently developing his second feature, Surface Tension.