Volkan Budak works as an editor, cinematographer and director for documentaries and short film projects. He has participated in national and international film festivals with his films. He is a lecturer at Istanbul Aydın University, Faculty of Communication and also He has lectured at Marmara University scope of movie and photography.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am looking for a house to stay for language education in London between June and September. I can accept guests in my house in Istanbul for the same dates. In a sense I want to trade houses

Interests

Bicycle

• cinema

Music, Movies, and Books

1. Chien Andalou (1929) / Luis Bunuel
2. Bacheha-Ye aseman (1997) / Majid Majidi
3. Vozvrashchenie (2003) / Andrey Zvyagintsev
4. Persona (1966) / Ingmar Bergman
5. Bir Zamanlar Anadoluda (2011) / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Stanley Kubrick
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) / Michel
Gondry
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) / Ethan Coen ve Joel Coen
9. Tabutta Rövoşata (1996) / Derviş Zaim
10. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) / Robert Bresson
11. Süt (2008) / Semih Kaplanoğlu
12. Psycho (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock
13. A Trip to the Moon (1902) / Georges Méliès
14. Rossellini Battleship Potemkin (1925) / Sergei Eisentein
15. Rome, Open City (1945) / Roberto Rossellini
16. İhtiyar Delikanlı – Oldeuboi (2003) / Chan-wook Park
17. Bicycle Thieves (1948) / Vittorio de Sica
18. Beyaz Bant – Das weiße Band (2009) / Michael
Haneke
19. Taste of Cherry (1997) / Abbas Kiarostami
20. The Decalogue (1989) / Krzysztof Kieslowski
21. Blue Velvet (1986) / David Lynch
23. Cinema Paradiso (1988) / Giuseppe Tornatore
24. Mandariinid (2013) / Zaza Urushadze
25. Et maintenant on va où? (2012) / Nadin Labaki
26. Pájaros de verano (2018) / Cristina Gallego
27. Mr. Nobody (2009) / Jaco Van Dormael
28. Taxi Driver (1977) / Martin Scorsese
29. Masumiyet (1997) / Zeki Demirkupuz
30. Citizen Kane (1941) / Orson
31. Susuz Yaz (1963) / Metin Erksan
32. Yusuf ile Kenan (1979) / Ömer Kavur
33. Man With a Movie Camera (1929) / Dziga Vertov
34. Enemy (2013) / Denis Villeneuve
35. Les quatre cents coups (1959) / François Truffaut
36. Dead Man (1995) / Jim Jarmusch
36. Truman Show (1998) / Peter Weir
37. Stalker (1979) / Andrei Tarkovsky
38. 12 Years Slave (2013) / Steve McQueen
39. The Green Mile (1999) / Frank Darabont
40. Room (2015) / Lenny Abrahamson

41. Whiplash (2014) / Damien Chazelle
42. Blow-Up (1966) / Michelangelo Antonioni
43. Ida (2013) / Pawel Pawlikowski
44. Roma (2019) / Alfonso Cuaron
45. The Birth of a Nation (1915) / D.W. Griffith
46. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligar (1920) / Robert Weine
47. Nosferatu (1922) / F. W. Murnau
48. Parazit – Gisaengchung (2019) / Bong Joon-ho
49. Metropolis (1927) / Fritz Lang
50. Manbiki Kazoku (2018) / Hirokazu Koreeda
51. Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak (2004) / Ahmet Uluçay
52. Welles Lazzaro Felice (2018) / Alice Rohr

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9321286/

Countries I’ve Visited

England, Italy, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey