Lacuna (Feature)

By Selman Nacar

After migrating to the US from Turkey, Ali finds himself under the iron-tight grip of his destiny - stuck between two vastly different worlds.

Selman Nacar is a filmmaker, with an MFA Film in Directing from Columbia University in New York City. He gave lectures on fictional filmmaking at the same university. He graduated from İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law in 2015, and from Faculty of Film in 2016. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent 2019, and the First Films First 2020.

Selman is the founder of Kuyu Film, a production company that produced the films The Pillar of Salt (2018) and Belonging (2019), both of which have premiered at the Berlin Film Festival Forum Section.

He directed his debut Between Two Dawns in 2021 and is currently working on his new feature films Hesitation Wound and Lacuna.