Ömer Vargı

Ömer Vargı is a filmmaker who works as a director, producer and screenwriter in Turkish cinema. Everything He Directs Will Be Very Beautiful, İnşaat and Kabadayı, and Eşkıya, which he produced, are among his best-known works. He was born on January 1, 1953 in Istanbul. After graduating from TED College in Ankara, he graduated from the Department of Physics at Middle East Technical University in 1976.

From advertising to cinema

His first contact with cinema was in 1974, when he worked as an assistant on the film Anger, written by Yılmaz Güney and directed by Şerif Gören. Since 1977, he turned to commercial film directing and shot more than a thousand commercials in this field. In the early 1980s, he and his wife Mine Vargı took part in the founding of the Filma-Cass company, which started producing commercials.

Filma-Cass also entered film production in the 1990s. Eşkıya, written and directed by Yavuz Turgul and released in 1996, became the company's best-known work in the field of cinema; The film reached more than 2.5 million viewers and was considered the beginning of a new era in Turkish cinema. Vargı made his feature film directorial debut in 1998 with Everything Will Be Beautiful, starring Cem Yılmaz and Mazhar Alanson.

He then continued his work with films such as İnşaat (2003), which he wrote and directed, Kabadayı (2007) and Anadolu Kartalları (2011), which he also produced. He shot the sequel to İnşaat in 2014.

Awards and jury work

For his contributions to cinema, he was awarded the Honorary Award at the opening ceremony of the 55th International Antalya Film Festival in 2018. In 2025, he served as the jury president of the national feature competition at the 62nd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

• Everything's Gonna Be Fine (1998) — director
• Construction (2003) — director, screenwriter, producer
• Bully (2007) — director, producer
• Anatolian Eagles (2011) — director, producer
• Construction 2 (2014) — director, screenwriter, producer

Coming from commercial filmmaking, Vargı became one of the influential names in blockbuster films of Turkish cinema after the 1990s, both as a producer and director.