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About
Mustafa Uzuner is a Montréal-based filmmaker, curator, and producer working across experimental cinema, archival practices, and research-creation. He is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, where his research investigates suppressed histories, counter-archives, and the relationship between moving images, political memory, and urban space.
From 2011 to 2018, he was Head of Programming at !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival. He subsequently worked in film distribution and exhibition, collaborating with filmmakers including Pedro Costa, Hong Sang-soo, and Payal Kapadia. He has also served as a grant advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund since 2019.
His producing credits include Belonging (Berlinale, 2019), Yurt (Venice, 2023), and An Evening Song (for three voices) (FIDMarseille, 2023). He was an executive producer of Measures for a Funeral (TIFF, 2024).
His directorial debut, La Cancha (2023), premiered in the Envision Competition at IDFA. His subsequent film, Soul of the Foot (2025), received the New Visions Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). His recent moving-image practice explores analogue film, experimental documentary, and the material afterlives of archival images.