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Ömür Kınay
Ömür Kınay (born in 1979) is a disabled Turkish female film director, who has received the Golden Boll Award for her short film "Kün".
Early years.
She was born in Istanbul in 1979. Ömür's mother Emine Doğançay and her father Hürol Kınay divorced when Ömür was one year old. From then on, she stayed with her mother. In the mid 1990s, she and her mother returned to Istanbul from Germany, where they had lived. At age 20, Ömür and
2003 on the weekends, she attended a graphics design course in an Arts Center. During this period, Ömür Kınay created paintings, which were shown in local group exhibitions.
In 2005, Ömür Kınay was awarded a scholarship to study Communication-Design at the Istanbul Kültür University. Following her graduation in 2009, she went to the United Kingdom sponsored by the in-London-living Turkish restaurateur Hüseyin Özer. She stayed 18 months in Brighton to learn English language. Returned home, she earned a master's degree at