Serif Gören

Şerif Gören(born 1944 inXanthi,Greece) is aTurkishfilm director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of thePalme d'Or("Golden Palm") award inCannes Film Festivalin 1982 for the filmYol, which he had directed on behalf ofYılmaz Güney, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder ofYumurtalıkjudge Safa Mutlu. Gören started his film career as an editor, and then continued as an assistant director. He directed his first film "Endişe" (The Anxiety) in 1974. He directed more than thirty films in a decade.