Paul Azur (aka Beraat GOKKUS) is a French-Turkish exiled director and journalist who lives in Paris, France since 2016. He studied Political Science at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey.
Azur is an award-winning director. His films are mostly about exile, refugees, immigration and home.
With The Lost Pen (under his Turkish name Gokkus) he won SmartFone Flick Fest 2020 Best Director and Best Film Awards. The Lost Pen also won African Smartphone International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize (2020) and Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival Best Film Award.
With his short documentary Breakfast of Champions (2017/Paris), Azur won Best Short Short Film award at Berlin Independent Film Festival 2018 and Best Short Short Film award at Berlin Short Film Festival 2017.
Azur’s short films are selected many times by international film festivals. Nowadays he is working on his feature film projects, a documentary, and a short film project too.
