# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dervis-zaim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:28.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dervis-zaim"
name: "Derviş Zaim"
slug: "dervis-zaim"
description: "Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass (2000) and Dot (2008); Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin (1996); and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland (1995)."
tagline: "Turkish Cypriot film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7gPnPUdvjPjcncyj6pRcIuTcIAe.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.84
  momentum:             10.5612097127269
  historical:           8.181609333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952077/"
    handle:    "nm0952077"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.derviszaim.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%B2%D8%B9%DB%8C%D9%85"
    title: "درویش زعیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "ديرڤيس زايم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C9%99rvi%C5%9F_Zaim"
    title: "Dərviş Zaim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervi%C5%9F_Zaim"
    title: "Derviş Zaim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervi%C5%9F_Zaim"
    title: "Derviş Zaim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%85"
    title: "درویش زیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervi%C5%9F_Zaim"
    title: "Derviş Zaim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%96%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98"
    title: "დერვიშ ზაიმი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervi%C5%9F_Zaim"
    title: "Derviş Zaim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3811192"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139722"
    title: "Derviş Zaim"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump