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Deniz Akcay Katiksiz

Writer, director and producer · Born January 1, 1978 (48)

Screenwriter, director, producer. She was born in 1978 in Izmir. Her full name is Deniz Akçay Katıksız. She graduated from Ege University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema in 2004. In 2000, she crossed paths with Birol Güven and joined the sector as a screenwriter with the television series Kahkaha Show. In 2006, she took director and editing lessons at the New York Film Academy. Since 2016, she has been working with his sister Armağan Gülşahin with the Teşriki Mesai script group she founded with her friends. Deniz Akçay made a lot of noise in the industry with the movie Köksüz( Nobody's Home), which she both wrote and directed and produced in 2013, and in the same year she won the Seyfi Teoman Best First Film Award at 32nd Istanbul Film Festival, Yılmaz Güney Award at the International 20th Golden Boll Film Festival and was awarded the Best Screenplay awards at the 47th Siyad Turkish Cinema Awards in 2015.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
January 1, 1978 (48)
Works as
Writer, director and producer
Titles
5 on Motif · 14 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 39 days to Oct 28Down 64% in 30 days

What are Deniz Akcay Katiksiz's films like?

Across their 5 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
36%
Bonds
34%
Survival
14%
Morality
11%
Society
5%

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Melancholic
3
Tense
2
Bittersweet
1
Absurd
1
Romantic
1
Other
3

How their films end

  • Bittersweet4
  • Tragic1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Deniz Akcay Katiksiz's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for Deniz Akcay Katiksiz's titles on Motif; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

14 credits, 5 with a Motif page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • Bet Your Life(2025)

    Show 8 episodes · Creator · Writer

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows
  • Bahar(2024)

    Show 6 episodes · Writer

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
  • Eternamente Amándonos(2023)

    Show 120 episodes · Story

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
  • Farewell Letter (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 24 episodes · Writer

  • Bir Peri Masalı (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)

    Show 13 episodes · Writer

  • Bride of Istanbul (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 87 episodes · Writer

  • Sonsuz Ask(2017)

    Writer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
  • Wings of Love (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)

    Show Creator

  • Nobody's Home(2013)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • Küçük Kadınlar (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2008)

    Show Creator

  • Candan öte (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2006)

    Show 24 episodes · Creator · Writer

  • Büyük Yalan (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2004)

    Show 2 episodes · Creator · Writer

  • Yarım Elma (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2002)

    Show 55 episodes · Writer

  • Omuz Omuza (not in the Motif catalog yet)

    Show Creator

Career shape

A full career of 13 titles, 12 of them dated from 2002 to 2025.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing1 of 13: 0 only directing, 1 with another roleWriting10 of 13: 6 only writing, 4 with another roleProducing1 of 13: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleOther crew6 of 13: 3 only other crew, 3 with another role

13 titles, 4 with more than one role — writing and other crew overlap on 3 of them.

By decade

2000s4 · crew2010s3 · crew2020s5 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

Who does Deniz Akcay Katiksiz work with?

People who share at least 2 of Deniz Akcay Katiksiz's Motif titles; Ahmet Katiksiz shares the most, 2.