Necati Sönmez

Film Critic, Turkey

Necati Sönmez, film critic and documentary filmmaker based in Istanbul. “Theo’s Gaze” and “To Make An Example of” are two of his works.

As a Jury Member

  • 12nd Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films
  • 14th Istanbul International Film Festival
  • 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
  • 23rd Montreal World Film Festival
  • 23rd Moscow International Film Festival
  • 23rd Torino Film Festival
  • 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival
  • 27th Carthage Film Festival
  • 29th Havana International Festival of the New Latinamerican Cinema
  • 35th Toronto International Film Festival
  • 36th Chicago International Film Festival
  • 40th Chicago International Film Festival
  • 4th Mumbai Film Festival
  • 52th Sydney Film Festival
  • 54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film

    • Author of Reports

  • A Rough Guide for Beginners By Necati Sönmez
    in 29th Havana International Festival of the New Latinamerican Cinema
  • A Temple for Movies By Necati Sönmez
    in 23rd Torino Film Festival
  • A True Story From Nature
    in 8th International Film Festival of Kerala
  • Images of a Shattered Century
    in 5th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
  • The Outsiders, From Inside
    in 40th Chicago International Film Festival
  • The storm that we call progress By Necati Sönmez
    in 52th Sydney Film Festival

    • Social media



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