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My film Wrestlers' Feet has been selected by BUTT magazine for The One Minutes Series 'Fixations'. An overwhelming total of 115 films were submitted. ‘Fixations’ offers 25 minutes of turn-ons submitted from Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. A hot mess of cum rags, a pasta-plated p*ssy, dark rooms, and wedgies.

Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Activism was part of the 2024 Ljubljana Mladi Levi Festival. More info at the link...

My video Cruising was selected for Utrecht Pride BAK Queer Film Program in June 2024, curated by Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg. The queer...

A press conference for an exhibition about gay tourism in a fictional museum. Performance, 20', 2024 Writer and director Nadir Sönmez Performers Nadir Sönmez İnci Sefa Cingöz Selin Hasar Selected Performances SAHA Studio, 2024 İstanbul Fringe Festival, 2025 Curator: This exhibition emerged as a result of you revisiting your sixteen years of adult sexual life. You see your sexuality as a cultural value for both our country and world art history. Sometimes, you make love to Hol

I presented my lecture performance Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Ac tivism at Lala Queer House of Underground Arts in Athens. November...

I was selected for Berliner Festspiele's Theatertreffen International Forum in 2023. The International Forum is a platform for global...

Play, 60', 2024 Two men who met at the gym go to one's place, sit on a couch and have a conversation about mundanities until their evening is interrupted by a cheated sister and an intrusive delivery guy. The play deals with the erotic and social tension through contemporary themes such as bromance in the context of Turkish masculinity, single people's loneliness in big cities, open relationships' inability to overcome young adult romantic crisis’ or racism towards Arabs in İ

Play, 60', 2018 Gallery owner Beril and contemporary artist Tilbe meet for a coffee. They talk behind the backs of their acquaintances from the Istanbul art community, about their projects and their private lives. Kürşat, the waiter who comes to ask about their orders, reminds them of a place they have encountered before. An underground party in Dolapdere had brought them together before. Inspired by the desire to eavesdrop on what is being said at the next table while in a

Lecture Performance, 70', 2022 Nadir Sönmez narrates Kurdish LGBTIQ+ activism in Diyarbakır; through autobiographical performance, essay film and documentary theatre. On one side, there is a gay francophone Turkish artist. On the other side there are Kurdish LGBTIQ+ activists. Queer visibility and solidarity seem to function differently in their lives. This is aesthetically felt in the use of light and darkness. Under the brightness of the projection light, Nadir Sönmez talk

Video, 15', 2021 An unpublished writer wrote an erotic fiction, narrating the love affair between a Turkish woman and a Syrian refugee man. An editor reads passages from the draft and tries to convince the writer to publish it as a self-help book in Europe. Their conversation is a sexual parody of occidental literary glance at the refugee crisis. Funded by Borderline Offensive Writer and director Nadir Sönmez Actors Çisil Oğuz Nadir Sönmez İlda Özgürel S. Emrah Özdemir Select

I was selected for Trame, a three-month artist residency program at Paris Cité Internationale des Arts, in 2021. In the end of my residency, I staged a reading of Les Fils des Heterosexuals, my first theatre play in French language, with Christophe Pellet and Eric Bernard. TRAME is a residency program launched in 2019, aimed at French-speaking artists from all over the world and from all disciplines (visual arts, cinema, performing arts, writing, music) who wish to develop a

Ama was one of the four live performances selected for 2021 Dresden Fast Forward European Festival For Young Stage Directors in Germany....