15 Questions With Zaferhan Yumru

producer, 📍LA/Istanbul.

1. What’s your favorite day & time to go to the movies? 

I love being in a movie theater alone, so any weekday matinee does the trick. Since this is not always possible, I also love Saturdays at 11 am 😉

2. What’s your favorite movie theater? 

As a nomad immigrant who makes movie theaters home in every city I move to, this one will be a long answer, so bear with me. 

I grew up in Adana, in South-Eastern Turkey (birthplace of Palme d'Or winning Yılmaz Güney ) I fell in love with movies in this humid-ridden city, going to the movies every Summer day at “Metro Sineması”. The theater was so popular that locals called the street it situated “Metro Sineması Sokağı” (Metro Theater St.), and no one remembered the original name.

Later in Istanbul, arguably one of the most cinematic cities in the world, I still remember the first time I stepped into “Emek Sineması” on the infamous Istiklal Avenu…