Çağan Irmak

Çağan Irmak

Nascimento : 1970-04-04, Seferihisar, İzmir, Turkey

História

Çağan Irmak is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya (2004–2005) and Asmalı Konak (2002–2004), and for the hit films Alone (2008) and My Father and My Son (2005), for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director. He studied Radio, TV and Film Studies at Ege University Faculty of Communications, receiving the Sedat Simavi Award for two short films, Masal (The Tale) and Kurban (The Sacrifice), which he made in the course of his studies. After graduating in 1992, he worked in cinema and television as an assistant director to Orhan Oğuz, Mahinur Ergun, Filiz Kaynak and Yusuf Kurçenli, and was awarded first prize by IFSAK for his short film Play Me Old and Wise (1998). He wrote and directed the TV series Good Morning Brother Istanbul (1998–2001) on atv, and the TV film Strawberry Cake (2000) before achieving some early success with his first feature film, Wish Me Luck (2001), which Rekin Teksoy describes as "unremarkable",[2] and collaborations with Mahinur Ergun on the hit TV series Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı (2001) for TRT, and Asmalı Konak (2002–2004) for atv, for which he received numerous awards. A period of great success followed with popular TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya (2004–2005) on Kanal D, and hit films Everything About Mustafa (2004) and My Father and My Son (2005), which according to Rekin Teksoy "successfully exploited the melodramatic idiom and was a huge box-office success,"[2] which, "showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences"[1] as well as receiving six Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards including Best Director. Following this he wrote and directed several installment in the TV horror film series Kabuslar Evi for FOX, and the film The Messenger before achieving another popular success with the film Alone (2008). Since then he has made the short film Düşlerimdeki Atatürk (2008), the TV series Yol Arkadaşım (2008–2009) for Star and the film In Darkness (2009). He has been productive in the last years and has produced 4 additional films: Sleeping Princess (2010), My Grandfather's People (2011), Are We OK? (2012) and Whisper If I Forget (2014).

Perfil

Çağan Irmak
Çağan Irmak

Filmes

Sevda Mecburi İstikamet
Screenplay
It is about the journey of a famous actor to complete his unfinished story with his daughter.
Sevda Mecburi İstikamet
Director
It is about the journey of a famous actor to complete his unfinished story with his daughter.
Για Πάντα
Screenplay
Peter is a successful chef with an unstable emotional life and Zoi is a romantic girl who sews children's costumes. A passionate love affair begins, but the refusal of the first to commit seems like an insurmountable obstacle.
Bizi Hatirla
Writer
Kaan (Tolga Tekin) has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.
Bizi Hatirla
Director
Kaan (Tolga Tekin) has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.
Entrusted
Writer
'Çocuklar Sana Emanet' meaning 'Children's Safety to you" The story about an interior architect Kerem recovering from traumatic car accident then spends time with healer woman and people of a village. But It is full of mysteries, suspense & hope.
Entrusted
Director
'Çocuklar Sana Emanet' meaning 'Children's Safety to you" The story about an interior architect Kerem recovering from traumatic car accident then spends time with healer woman and people of a village. But It is full of mysteries, suspense & hope.
Benim Adım Feridun
Director
A Unique Life
Scenario Writer
A Unique Life
Director
Whisper If I Forget
Director
An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.
Are We Ok?
Director
Temmuz is an openly gay sculptor living at a flat with his dog in Istanbul. He lives a bohemian lifestyle and has a happy go lucky, carefree, eccentric (such as believing in good luck charms) character, frequently distracting him from his work as a children's book illustrator, and eventually leading him to be abandoned by his boyfriend via e-mail. He is given solace and affection by her wealthy mother, who is fully supportive of him, and best friend and co-worker, Beste. In the meantime, he keeps seeing a young man in his dreams, who repeatedly calls him for help and rescue. One day he runs into this guy while getting on the bus, who is accompanied by his mother, and helps them get into their home as the young man was born without limbs. From then on, two lives would collide into each other, starting a brotherhood full of discoveries and mutual help.
Are We Ok?
Writer
Temmuz is an openly gay sculptor living at a flat with his dog in Istanbul. He lives a bohemian lifestyle and has a happy go lucky, carefree, eccentric (such as believing in good luck charms) character, frequently distracting him from his work as a children's book illustrator, and eventually leading him to be abandoned by his boyfriend via e-mail. He is given solace and affection by her wealthy mother, who is fully supportive of him, and best friend and co-worker, Beste. In the meantime, he keeps seeing a young man in his dreams, who repeatedly calls him for help and rescue. One day he runs into this guy while getting on the bus, who is accompanied by his mother, and helps them get into their home as the young man was born without limbs. From then on, two lives would collide into each other, starting a brotherhood full of discoveries and mutual help.
My Grandfather's People
Writer
Vovô e sua família foram arrancados de suas terras, forçados a migrar de Creta durante o intercâmbio populacional quando ele tinha apenas dez anos de idade. O seu grande desejo era ver a terra de seu nascimento antes de morrer. É esse anseio que o faz frequentemente jogar garrafas contendo cartas no Egeu. Um filme que descreve a espetacular transformação de uma família e seu país através dos olhos de uma criança de dez anos e seu avô morando em uma pequena cidade da Grécia.
My Grandfather's People
Director
Vovô e sua família foram arrancados de suas terras, forçados a migrar de Creta durante o intercâmbio populacional quando ele tinha apenas dez anos de idade. O seu grande desejo era ver a terra de seu nascimento antes de morrer. É esse anseio que o faz frequentemente jogar garrafas contendo cartas no Egeu. Um filme que descreve a espetacular transformação de uma família e seu país através dos olhos de uma criança de dez anos e seu avô morando em uma pequena cidade da Grécia.
Sleeping Princess
Writer
Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.
Sleeping Princess
Director
Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.
In Darkness
Director
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Alone
Writer
Alper is a renowned chef in his 30s at his own luxury restaurant. He lives an isolated life and spends his nights with one-night stands and paid intercourses. One day, his life changes utterly when his path crosses with Ada and gets enamored by her casual and modest outlook at life. As they start to get romantically involved, Alper must also overcome his chronic feeling of desolateness.
Alone
Director
Alper is a renowned chef in his 30s at his own luxury restaurant. He lives an isolated life and spends his nights with one-night stands and paid intercourses. One day, his life changes utterly when his path crosses with Ada and gets enamored by her casual and modest outlook at life. As they start to get romantically involved, Alper must also overcome his chronic feeling of desolateness.
Ulak - O Mensageiro
Writer
Ao visitar uma vila, o médico Zekeriya encanta tanto jovens quanto adultos com as diversas histórias misteriosas que aproximam o passado, o presente e o futuro. Buscando espalhar a palavra de Deus, conta as histórias que mostram todo o poder divino, a importância da fidelidade a si mesmo e a necessidade de se levantar contra os tiranos.
Ulak - O Mensageiro
Director
Ao visitar uma vila, o médico Zekeriya encanta tanto jovens quanto adultos com as diversas histórias misteriosas que aproximam o passado, o presente e o futuro. Buscando espalhar a palavra de Deus, conta as histórias que mostram todo o poder divino, a importância da fidelidade a si mesmo e a necessidade de se levantar contra os tiranos.
Kabuslar Evi: Gece Gelen Arkadaşlar
Writer
Demet and Özgür are married couple spending night full of nightmares. They are afraid to even mention each other of their ghosts who come to visit them every night. Finally, they decide to change their homes. Their daughter, Nisan, and their servants, also move to the Nightmares House, temporarily. However, the visits continue here. There is nothing left to do. It's time to face themselves, their fears and their ghosts. The real surprise is about their assistant Saniye Hanım.
Kabuslar Evi: Bir Kış Masalı
Writer
The theater actor, Gülseren, is unable to relieve the pain of her husband Hilmi and her daughter Melisa, which she lost as a result of an accident. As a result of the pressures and insistence of his surroundings, he moves away from his house in order to find peace and come to the Nightmares House. A woman in a shady costume, who comes across in unexpected moments while thinking that she is getting away from all her pain, turns her entire balance upside down. While trying to solve the mystery of this woman with the help of Realtor Sema, Gülseren has to confront her daughter and her husband, on the one hand, and to resist the instant loss of time. Is this woman an ambassador, as Gülseren argues, taking the lost souls away and taking them to where they belong? All the answers are hidden in this shady woman and time is decreasing from time to time, autumn leaves its place to a winter fairy tale.
House of Nightmares: Sleepwalkers
Writer
Tolga is a science-fiction writer who has never been able to achieve the success of his first book. The signature day of his last book also results in a fiasco. Tolga, who has become a depressed soul, also fights with his lover Ebru and is abandoned. Tolga comes to the Nightmare House, which is far from the crowd of the city, hoping to listen to herself and to catch the muse again. Here, when he wakes up in the morning, the fatigue he does not make sense and some strange events he encounters drag Tolga into the chaos he cannot get out of. The fierce struggle confronts a father and son. Are the dream thieves two vampires, or two souls trapped in different universes and sizes, in the words of this father-son Tolga?
Kabuslar Evi: Çizgisiz Zamanlar
Writer
Sevil is one of the actresses of old Turkish movies that are now forgotten. As a result of the surprising offer he received at a time when he was hoping to work, he agreed for a new series of film projects. It is placed in the House of Nightmares in the town where the embankment is located. However, what he sees and sees in this house leads him step by step into the unused pool of the house. Will Sevil continue on her way with the big secret she discovered in the pool, or will she get her soul deserved freedom by listening to the voices coming through at the expense of losing the secret?
At the Bar
Prisoner-2
A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center where they do not belong, where they are excluded. They adopted a brutal method to seize rights that were not granted to them. Unaware of what will happen to them, cheerful and well-to-do university students are helpless in the face of this gun-wielding mob that suddenly raids the bar where they are having fun.
From The Darkness
Writer
Kerem is going on vacation with his mother and sister. Kerem asks them to take a break on the road. When he returns, he cannot find his mother and brother. He waits for some sounds from the forest while he waits for his mother and brother to come. When he follows the voices and enters the forest, he finds himself in the Nightmare House. In the House of Nightmares awaits him from the Dark. Kerem will face his past and will want to correct what he has done.
Kabuslar Evi: Hayal-i Cihan
Writer
Cihan, who has been seeking a quiet house far from the city center, finds the mansion he needs at Sema Emlak, the well-known real estate agent of a village. After staying for a short time in the mansion, he realizes he is not alone there; the mansion also contains a specter. Fighting against the specter, he catches him. However, what is even more dreadful than the specter itself is the story of its own.
Kabuslar Evi: Hayal-i Cihan
Director
Cihan, who has been seeking a quiet house far from the city center, finds the mansion he needs at Sema Emlak, the well-known real estate agent of a village. After staying for a short time in the mansion, he realizes he is not alone there; the mansion also contains a specter. Fighting against the specter, he catches him. However, what is even more dreadful than the specter itself is the story of its own.
House of Nightmares:  The Time Waiting on You
Script
Ece goes to House of Nightmares for find the man that she saw in her dreams every night. Will be answered her questions when the man appears.
House of Nightmares - The Last Dance
Script
Müyesser is a disabled old woman dependent on her daughter-in-law's care. She can neither walk nor speak. In the mansion where they have just moved due to her son's new occupation, Müyesser meets a mysterious guest awaited for years, who proposes a last dance with her.
House of Nightmares - The Last Dance
Director
Müyesser is a disabled old woman dependent on her daughter-in-law's care. She can neither walk nor speak. In the mansion where they have just moved due to her son's new occupation, Müyesser meets a mysterious guest awaited for years, who proposes a last dance with her.
Kabuslar Evi: Tanıdık Yabancı
Writer
Discharged from the mental institution after a long treatment, Derya (Z.Gencer) returns to her village, where her mother lives (G.Ökten). While trying hard to forget her miserable memories, including her son's tragic demise, her life completely changes due to a job offer by Sema Emlak.
Kabuslar Evi: Çarşamba Karısı
Writer
Kabuslar Evi: Kaçan Fırsatlar Limited
Writer
Kabuslar Evi: Takip
Writer
Kabuslar Evi: Onlara Dokunmak
Writer
Kabuslar Evi: Takip
Director
Meu Pai e Meu Filho
Writer
Um jornalista de cuja esposa morreu ao dar à luz seu filho durante um golpe militar, retorna à fazenda de sua família. Afastado do pai por dar as costas à família e desperdiçar a vida com o ativismo político, ele tenta se reconectar com ele para que seu filho tenha um lugar para morar, pois sua saúde está piorando devido à extensa tortura que ele teve que suportar.
Meu Pai e Meu Filho
Director
Um jornalista de cuja esposa morreu ao dar à luz seu filho durante um golpe militar, retorna à fazenda de sua família. Afastado do pai por dar as costas à família e desperdiçar a vida com o ativismo político, ele tenta se reconectar com ele para que seu filho tenha um lugar para morar, pois sua saúde está piorando devido à extensa tortura que ele teve que suportar.
Gece 11.45
Hakan
Everything About Mustafa
Writer
A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.
Everything About Mustafa
Director
A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.
Bana Şans Dile
Writer
Bana Şans Dile
Director
Çilekli Pasta
Writer
Gece Martıları
Çilekli Pasta
Director
Çilekli Pasta
Engin
Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş
Writer
A famous but unnamed radio announcer encounters with a girl who loves his radio show and starts a love between two of them first with a fight.
Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş
Director
A famous but unnamed radio announcer encounters with a girl who loves his radio show and starts a love between two of them first with a fight.
Bana Old and Wise'ı Çal
Director
A man named Onur, connects to a Radio programme presented by Oguz and requests the song Old and Wise from The Alan Parsons Project. A day later Eda, for whom Onur requested the song, calls in to tell it was a special song for Eda and Oğuz but there is something myterious going on...