Çağlar Atav is a Turkish film director and screenwriter. He was born in Elazig and later moved to Izmir due to his family's work. He completed his education in Turkey, including his university studies at Yaşar University's Department of Radio Cinema Television. While at university, he worked on independent music videos and commercial film projects. As part of his graduation project, he worked as a cinematographer for a short documentary with friends and the documentary was selected for the student short documentary competition at the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals in Turkey. He has since moved to Berlin to pursue a master's degree in directing at MetFilmSchool Berlin. He recently completed filming a short movie titled Me and Her, based on a personal story. He is now preparing for two more short film projects, titled Lunch and Taller than Me.