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Staged reading, 2021, Paris Cité Internationale des Arts, 30' Mehmet dreams of making a pornographic film in order to represent Turkey at the Venice Biennale. To prepare for the project, he temporarily settles in Paris. There, he meets Bruno, a porn actor, and regularly consults Quentin, a psychotherapist. The play explores male desire. The three male characters use words to stimulate one another intellectually and sexually. Writer and director Nadir Sönmez Actors Nadir Sönme

Feature Film, 64', 2022 Ama offers a sarcastic look at the contradictions and inconsistencies of artists in Istanbul as they attempt to adapt to Western-based gender discourses. The film unfolds as a dialectical dialogue filled with erotic tension, questioning how professional jargon shapes their language and how their relationship with fiction and performance blurs the boundaries between their private and professional lives. The aesthetics between theater and film raise ques

Play, 60', 2019 Ama means but in English. It is a conversation piece about art, power, sex and role play in the Turkish intellectual scene. In four scenes, Nadir Sönmez creates a portrait of a small group of artists who examine their own profession with equal criticism and sarcasm, and overstep the boundaries between work and private life more than once. It’s the dialogues that form the heart of the theatrical situation here and give Sönmez and his five fellow performers a wi