Ada Güvenir

Ada Güvenir is a filmmaker and visual artist born in 1997 and raised in İzmir, Turkey, now living and working in Belgium. She studied Audiovisual Arts at KASK School of Arts in Ghent, completing her master's degree in 2020, and during her studies worked across installation, illustration, writing, painting, performance and animation. Her graduation film was selected at festivals around the world and won the Wildcard Award of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Her animated short As If It Could (2023), a semi-autobiographical story about borders and integration, won Best Animation Short Film at Kortfilmfestival Leuven.