Aslı Atasoy is an Istanbul-based independent journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work navigates the intersections of cultural memory, aesthetics, and quiet forms of resistance.
Drawing from literature, design, and the intimate rituals of everyday life, she crafts, author-driven films that blur the lines between journalism and cinema.

Her previous documentary Gezi is 9 Years Old explored the emotional legacy of the 2013 Gezi Park protests.

In her early career, Atasoy worked in the teams of celebrated filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan and producer Zeynep Atakan, experiences that sharpened her cinematic eye and deepened her attention to mood, rhythm, and visual minimalism.

The Book’s Dream is her latest cinematic offering — a visually rich, reflective portrait of Birol Bayram, believed to be the world’s most prolific book cover designer.

With this work, Atasoy continues to trace the invisible threads between collective imagination and the visual grammar of memory...