THE WALL Duvar
	SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2017 1:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Avenue Boston In Competition Directed by Mustafa Koray Polat Short Doc. / 5 min. / 2016
Necla is a Syrian refugee struggling for life together with her 4 children in one of the poor districts of Ankara. Making her living through the goods she sells on a workbench in her backyard, Necla directly depends on it to be able to continue her life, but she has a problem. The Wall is a documentary demonstrating a 5-minutes cut from Necla’s life to have a grasp of the wall we build against the refugees.
SELECTED FESTIVALS AND AWARDS Sabancı Foundation Short Film Competition, Turkey: First Prize Walthamstow International Film Festival, UK: First Prize, Best Documentary

MUSTAFA KORAY POLAT
	After graduating from the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema of Ankara University’s Faculty of Communication in 2004, Mustafa Koray Polat has worked as freelancer director and producer in several TV documentary projects for TRT (Turkish Public Television) for 10 years. The Wall is his first film as a writer and director.