Location: Lourmarin, Provence, France, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Field of Interest: Cinemas of Central Asia, Iran and Turkey, Transnational Kurdish Cinema, Women and Cinema in the Islamicate cultures of the Middle East and Central Asia
Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Gönül Dönmez-Colin is an independent film scholar and author of Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and As Image-makers (2019); The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema (2014); Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging (2008); Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Filmmakers from Iran and Turkey (2012); Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Filmmakers from Central Asia (2012) and Women, Islam and Cinema (2004) and the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2023) and Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East (2007) among other scholarly works.