Hüseyin Aydın Gürsoy

Born in Turkey in 1988, Hüseyin has lived in France since the age of 3. He grew up with this dual culture.

Hüseyin moved towards cinema and filmmaking alongside a Master's degree in Information Systems and New Technologies.

In 2011, he self-produced his first short film, La Quatorzième (The Fourteenth). In 2014, his second short film, 8 Mois (8 Months), shot in his hometown village and supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, won the Unifrance Prize at the Tous Courts Festival in Aix-en-Provence.

He directed two more produced short films: Une toile d'araignée (A Spider's Web) in 2015, followed by Partir en poussière (Turning to Dust) in 2020, which received a special mention at Interfilm Berlin and was selected for numerous festivals including Palm Springs and Cinémed.

Une affaire turque (A Turkish case), co-written with Ludovic du Clary and produced by Les Films du Clan, is his first feature film.