Filmmaker Mayıs Rukel is having an open discussion with filmmaking students about his process, how to secure grants, how to work internationally and the power of in-depth storytelling in a film.

Mayıs Rukel is a Turkish artist, writer, and filmmaker. His work explores magical research, liberatory remembering, radical pedagogies, child-woven futures, and befriending ghosts. He received the GRA Award for Autonomous Arts 2020 and Mondriaan Fonds Kunstenaar Start 2023. His short fiction The Pendant was featured at the Nederlands Film Festival 2020, and his feature-length fiction-documentary Movement Song had its world premiere at IFFR 2026.

All events with Mayıs Rukel are in collaboration with Sattya Collective.