Roda Canioglu

She began her career when she was 19 years old in Istanbul. She studied with Jean Laurent Cochet in Paris. She won the prize for Best Actress at the International Festival of Tanger. In 2016, she starred in "Blue Silence", the first feature film by Bülent Öztürk. The film won 4 awards (jury prize, best screenplay award, human rights award and best first film award) at the Istanbul International Film Festival, and 2 awards (best screenplay award and diaspora prize ) at the International Festival in Duhok, Iraq. The film has been selected for the Sao Paulo International Festival, the Bosphorus Festival in Istanbul and the CineMed Festival in Montpellier. In 2017, she played in "Le Temps des Égarés", Virginie Sauveur's feature for Arte. She is fluent in French, Turkish and Kurdish and currently lives in Paris.