After obtaining his master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, Volkan Üce started to work at the same university. He decided to continue as a self-taught filmmaker before completing his PhD.

His first full-length documentary ‘Displaced’ had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig 2017 and was received with great enthusiasm by both the international and the Belgian public. ‘Displaced’ shows the identity crisis of third-generation Turks growing up in Belgium and the Netherlands. At the same time the film tells a lot about current Turkish and Western European society. His second documentary ‘ALL-IN’ premiered at CPH:DOX and Hot Docs 2021, was selected for the European Film Awards, won the award Best Documentary at the Antalya Film Festival, has been broadcasted on a.o. VRT, RTBF, France Télévisions, BNNVARA, VGTV, Yes, ERR and Mubi Turkey and is sold by CAT&Docs.

As a filmmaker, Volkan makes sure that his films are more than just an exotic story. Besides informing and creating empathy for his protagonists, Volkan also strives, in a subtle way, to confront the audience with themselves.