Firat Yücel is a documentary director and editor who lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. He is also one of the curators behind the video series of Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema (a platform of Altyazı Cinema Association) dedicated to supporting political film and video makers at risk in Turkey and elsewhere. His work centers around collective filmmaking and resistance against censorship; mainly using the forms and strategies of video-essay, archival/found footage, and desktop-documentary. Welcome Lenin (2016), Only Blockbusters Left Alive (2016), Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater (2016), Head and Tails (2018), and March 8, 2020: A Memoir (2023) are among his documentaries. The anthology film for which he served as artistic director, Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship (2024), premiered internationally at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam and was screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight, as well as CPH:DOX. He was a fellow at the BAK Utrecht’s Fellowship for Situated Practice: 2023-2024 with his research on self-censorship in cinema. His latest short, happiness (2025), premiered at Visions du Réel, is part of a trilogy on desktop cinema.