DiLAY ŞENGÜL

Born on April 12, 2002, in Sakarya, Türkiye, Dilayben began her journey in the performing arts at the age of eight through theatre education encouraged by her family. During high school, she graduated top of her class from SATSO Vocational High School, Department of Communication and Journalism. In 2024, she completed her undergraduate studies in Radio, Television, and Cinema at Istanbul University. Since then, she has written, directed, filmed, and taken part in the editing departments of numerous projects. She is physically based in Istanbul, yet conceptually located in every unspoken space. Within the Turkish film industry, she has held in-house positions at TN Yapım, AzotCo, Pale Owl, and Inter Yapım, and continues to collaborate freelance with various directors on feature films, music videos, TV series, and commercials. The works she has directed or assisted on can be seen on Blutv, Netflix, Mubi, and Gain, and have been screened at major national and international festivals such as Istanbul Film Festival, Adana Golden Boll, Clermont-Ferrand, St. Louis, Brooklyn Horror Fest, Antalya Golden Orange, NIFFF, Utah, and Cannes. Dilayben continues to pursue her individual artistic practice, defining cinema and art as acts of expression a language through which the personal becomes universal.