Sinan Çetin

Sinan Çetin 1953 yılında Van'da dünyaya geldi, sanatçı 1970’li yıllarda resim ve fotoğraf alanında amatör çalışmalar yaptı. Sinemaya 1975 yılında Zeki Ökten’in çektiği Hanzo adlı filmde asistanlık yaparak başladı. Daha sonra yönetmen Şerif Gören ve Atıf Yılmaz ile birlikte çalıştı. 1977 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sanat tarihi bölümünden mezun oldu. Aynı yıl Baskın ve ardından Halı Türküsü adlı belgeselleri yönetti. 1980 yılında ilk uzun metrajlı filmi Bir Günün Hikayesi ni çekti ve bu film 1982 Antalya Film Festivali'nde En iyi yönetmen ödülüne layık görüldü. Daha sonra peş peşe Çiçek Abbas, 14 Numara, Çirkinler de Sever, Berlin in Berlin gibi ödüllü filmleri yönetti. Bu arada reklam filmleri ve müzik klipleride yöneten Sinan Çetin, düzene karşı eleştirisini dile getirdiği Propaganda,Komiser Şekspir gibi liberal filmler ile büyük bir gişe hasılatı sağladı. Sinan Çetin’in kendi filmlerini çektiği Plato film adlı bir şirketi bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca Ayn Rand ve Karl Popper gibi filozofların eserlerini yayınladığı bir yayınevi sahibidir. Sinan Çetin bu yayınevini yakın dostu Atilla Yayla'nın da desteğiyle liberal düşünceyi yaymak amacıyla kurmuştur. Sinan Çetin evlidir ve 4 çocuğu bulunmaktadır.

Works

The European Side

The life and times of rather traditional Sutcuoglu family and their comedic struggles to adapt the high-profile contemporary life of Nisantasi.

Release Date2004-02-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Himself

Episode Count190

Vote Count62

Hanzo

Hanzo, who was lost as a baby and raised by bears in the wild forest, behaving like them, is captured one day by a group that comes to the village for excavation.

Release Date1975-04-01

Charactersd Televizyoncu

Vote Count50

Kral Türkiye Müzik Ödülleri

Kral Türkiye Müzik Ödülleri

Release Date1995-03-06

Charactersd Nominee

Episode Count1

When Luck Breaks the Door

Kuddusi Yurdum, a minibus driver, competes in a TV quiz show to win a grand prize for his family. After narrowly missing the final question, they accept a consolation trip to Barbunya Island, where unexpected and funny adventures await.

Release Date2005-01-28

Charactersd Hotel Bonita Cocierge

Vote Count34

Road of Dreams

İpek, a woman from Istanbul at a turning point in her life, embarks on a journey to seek change. During her travels, she meets Şahin, a hitchhiker, and together they encounter various individuals, including a writer, a musician, and a photographer, each with their own life stories.

Release Date2021-01-17

Charactersd Oktay

Robert's Movie

Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives him the erotic charge of his life. He begins taking film of their bedroom encounters and says some pretty excessive things about how marvelous she is to him. Meanwhile, his local friends don't trust or like him enough to help him stay in Istanbul, and it seems that he will have to continue onward in his journey to safety.

Release Date1992-04-09

Charactersd Gogo'nun Sevgilisi

Propaganda

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.

Release Date1999-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Çoban

Vote Count85

Paris'in Sırrı

The film tells the story of Sırrı Derman, who thinks he'll act in a commercial with Paris Hilton. Sırrı Derman, who played in an advertisement directed by Sinan Çetin years ago, learns that Çetin cast him in an commercial he'll shoot with Paris Hilton. The director's assistant made a wrong call and called Sırrı Derman instead of the famous actor Sırrı Ferman. Sırrı Derman thinks that he casted for shooting an commercial with Paris Hilton, and this is a sign that he is destined to marry Paris Hilton. The arrival of both Sırrı to the area where the shootings will take place causes confusion.

Release Date2019-08-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Sinan Çetin

Gökyüzü

A film director dreams of 2 young people in love. But the girl's father interferes with the director's dream and tries to prevent this love. The director resists the entanglement and does not change the story.

Release Date1986-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Darbe

The film tells the story of two old friends, Ahmet and Kemal, who work together to solve a murder. Ahmet, nicknamed "Baba," makes a living as an accountant. His son Ali, who works as a laborer at the same factory, is a union member. The factory manager pressures Ahmet to convince his son to leave the union. During a strike that breaks out at the factory, Ali is killed. Ahmet seeks help from Kemal, a businessman and his army buddy, to find his son's killer. Throughout this process, both Kemal and Ahmet begin to question their own lives.

Release Date1976-01-01

Charactersd Ali'nin Arkadaşı

Vote Count1

Gecekondu

Release Date2010-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Episode Count32

Vote Count1

Commissioner Shakespeare

After fainting in a school rehearsal, little Su is diagnosed with leukemia. As a result she is forced to give up the Snow White role she wanted so badly. Police Chief Cemil decides to stage the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at his oppressive police station. He hopes to win a TV competition in order to save his dying daughter.

Release Date2001-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count31

Ay Lav Yu

Mukhtar Yusuf Ağa’s unregistered village in eastern Anatolia has been championed through letters to government officials, and his lost son İbrahim, rescued and registered by Father Hana, is finally returning at age 30 with his American love Jessica; the question is whether Tinne can become their true homeland.

Release Date2010-03-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count50

Okul

The film revolves around a young group of spoiled teenagers and their struggle to prepare for the standardized test required to get into university. All of a sudden a ghost enters their lives, scares and incites them to misbehave.

Release Date2004-01-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count41

Pardon

Based on a true event, Pardon tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization. Ibrahim's fear of uniforms makes him runaway whenever he sees one. Because of this, police mistakes him with a terrorist and takes him and his friend Muzo into custody. Fooled by the police during the interrogation they name another friend, Aydin, in hope of saving themselves. As they all end up in prison, they remember the families and lovers they left behind.

Release Date2005-03-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count122

Mr E.

A television news anchorman, İsmet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car. Trying to track down his wife, the anchorman finds himself trapped in a bizarre world in the midst of murderers, cops and beautiful women.

Release Date1995-03-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Beyaz Atlı Adam

Release Date1965-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Abbas in Flower

While working as an assistant to swindling driver Şakir, ingenuous Abbas falls for the same woman his boss loves.

Release Date1982-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count89

Çirkinler de Sever

The story is based on a fictional account of the events that unfold between a film crew who come to shoot a movie in a remote village in Anatolia and the villagers. It attempts to convey the pure and innocent feelings that Mazlum, a young villager, has for the film actress Müjde. After the filmmakers finish their work and the crew returns to Istanbul, Mazlum follows Müjde to Istanbul due to his longing for her, leading to some interesting developments...

Release Date1981-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Plajda

Cem and Ali, two buddies, find themselves in the middle of a mafia showdown at a party where they are DJing. Not knowing what to do, the pair try to escape by putting on women's clothes they find in the costume room. But a perverted member of the mafia takes them to a resort and holds them captive, and the pair suddenly find themselves working as entertainers at a hotel. During their first attempt to escape the hotel, they see 20 girls who have come to the hotel for a beauty pageant and are stunned. They don't want to leave this paradise-like environment. But flirting with girls and living as women is difficult. Even when they try to escape from the hotel a second time, the duo, who have fallen in love with Cansu and Ebru from the TV crew, stay at the hotel. Meanwhile, the mafia also arrives at the hotel.

Release Date2008-02-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

The Kid

The story follows our hero, nicknamed "Child," who was kidnapped at a young age and fell into the hands of a gang of thieves. When he meets "Rüya" (Tuba Ünsal), who hates children but hosts a children's program on a special TV channel, a series of complicated events unfold for both sides. Our child hero is one of the most successful thieves in the gang. The reason for his theft is that for every 30,000 YTL he steals, the gang returns one child to their family.

Release Date2008-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Yıldız Tepe

Due to the war in Bosnia, Sevgi is sent by her family to live with relatives on a desolate hill in Anatolia, where she receives a very cold welcome. There is a strange tension among the inhabitants of the house. Sevgi begins to investigate the cause of the screams she hears at night. Meanwhile, she has fallen secretly in love with the eldest son of the house.

Release Date2000-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Number 14

Yaprak is just one of thousands of young women, who leave their quiet village lives behind them to seek their fortune in Istanbul. But the reality of life in a big city is harsh, and Yaprak is forced to take a job in one of the cities licensed brothels. Her beauty and youth make her popular with the patrons and she is soon the focus of the attention of two men; Necmi, a spineless but well meaning young man, and Arab, a deranged pimp who has recently lost his main source of income, his wife Zargana. Necmi wants to take Yaprak away from her nightmare existence, but soon finds himself forced to separate from her by the viscous Arab. Arab spends all of Yaprak's money, but after a savage attack on her, she comes to her senses. She and Necmi get married and as Yaprak says farewell to her friends in the brothel, Arab returns for the last time to seek his brutal revenge...

Release Date1985-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Story of a Day

Mustafa, has to marry his brother's widowed wife as per the customs. However, the young man is in love with his new wife's sister Zeynep. Mustafa's friend Nizam is also in love with Zeynep.

Release Date1980-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

American Girl

A college teenager encounters love while being thrown in the harsh but poetic wind of his dreams. Even though he tries to resist, love has now taken over him. Is his passion for photography and his American love, Jenny, an obstacle to the revolution? Is life strong enough to break down this hard wall? A lament to the lost generation of an era through the great love of Rüzgar.

Release Date2018-02-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Aşk Beklemez

A socialite writer, who has problems with her daughter, meets a handsome man at the resort where she came for a book promotion.

Release Date2006-05-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Mert ile Gert

Release Date2008-07-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count27

Vote Count2

İnanç Odası

4 youngsters in an illegal cell house are in preparation of a huge protest with a suicide bomb. 2 hours before the bombing, they kidnapped a bagel seller suspecting that he was a cop which lead them to quest ionize their own faith.

Release Date2013-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Romantic

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokhan frames his best friend Omer for a murder, subsequently Omer must leave the country.

Release Date2007-03-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Çanakkale Çocukları

The film, which focuses on the theme of brotherhood and the futility of war, tells the story of two enemy brothers facing each other on two separate fronts. The film, which contains messages aimed at mothers who do not want to lose their children, features Sinan Çetin's children, Orfeo (Osman) and Cemo (James).

Release Date2011-05-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Paper

A moviemaker hands in a script for an arty production in order to receive film funds. Due to political reasons beyond his reach, his film is not provided with a certificate of accreditation. But a true moviemaker never gives up.

Release Date2011-01-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Ölüm Yolculuğu

İlkay and Selçuk are an unhappy married couple. While traveling to the Turkish Riviera for a short vacation, they encounter a hitchhiker.

Release Date1995-04-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Ah Kalbim

Ah Kalbim

Release Date2009-05-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count26

Şöhret Okulu

Şöhret Okulu

Release Date2007-01-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Cümbür Cemaat Aile

Cümbür Cemaat Aile

Release Date2010-02-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count15

Unhappy Party

The documentary film of one of the concert series "Unhappy Party" (Mutsuz Parti) by Büyük Ev Ablukada performed at the end of 2019.

Release Date2020-12-04

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count1

Be Happy, It's an Order!

A humorous parody addressed to the Turkish regime and its attempt to control people’s way of life by imposing standards on how to have a good time and achieve a perfect state of happiness.

Release Date2008-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Limon Ağacı

Limon Ağacı

Release Date2008-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Prenses

Release Date1987-05-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Berlin in Berlin

A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband.

Release Date1993-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Propaganda Ana

The mother is separated from her child by the change of the country's borders. Will Hayat be able to get back to her mother, or will her remain in the hands of customs director Suna, who wants to have her very much.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kırık Zar

Release Date2000-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1