Ghostly is an artistic interpretation of a visual anthropology research project conducted at Freie Universität Berlin. The film explores the emotional landscape of recent highly-skilled migration from Turkey to Berlin, tracing experiences of displacement, language barriers, and emerging forms of solidarity in both digital and urban spaces.

Blending narrative interviews with a poetic visual style, Ghostly reflects the tension between rootlessness and emplacement. Shot between Istanbul and Berlin, the film separates sound and image to create a layered experience—while the visuals evoke emotional undercurrents, the audio draws directly from interview transcripts, weaving the cityscape with the voices of the “New Wavers.”

Screened at EASA 2020, Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival 2020, Ethnofest Athens 2020, Kunstverein Tiergarten- Galerie Nord film programme curated by Can Sungu and Malve Lippmann (bi’bak), 2022 International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Istanbul, Arts Festival organised Freiburg at KOKI (Kommunales Kino) curated by Neriman Bayram, Didem Yazıcı and Martina Priessner.