Are You Coming for Christmas?
Directing & Editing
Short Fiction
Production: Filmakademie Wien
Derya Satir is an Istanbul-born editor and director based in Vienna. Rooted in an early passion for music and theater, her work draws on different forms of storytelling and experiences of moving between cultures and languages.
Her directorial debut, the experimental short documentary Under the Debris, screened at international festivals including ShorTS Trieste, the International Short Film Festival Detmold and the YOUKI International Youth Media Festival. Working across roles and genres, she was assistant director to Nathalie Borgers on Scars of a Putsch, which premiered in the Berlinale Forum in 2025.
Having completed her studies in Theater, Film and Media at the University of Vienna, she is now studying Editing and Production at the Film Academy Vienna, and works as a freelance editor alongside her own directing and producing projects.
Short Films
Kleine Mädchen werden nicht wütend
Editing
Short Fiction
Director: Alara Yılmaz
Production: Alexandra Isabel Reis
Viktor
Production & Editing
Short Fiction
Directors: İrem Gökçen & Aron Eichhorn
Luna Filmworks (TR)
Inner Rhythm
Directing & Editing
Short Documentary
Production: Filmakademie Wien
Under the Debris
Directing & Editing
Experimental Short Documentary
Music Videos
Wear That Smile
Directing & Editing
Music: Wapi (Alt Orient)
Production: Hannah Resatz
Meni Moja Ljubav
Editing
Director: Tamara Tasić
Music: Niko Nikolić
Oh Kellner
Directing & Editing
Co-Director: Chiara Schmelcher
Music: David Maresch
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2026
In the Memory of Polyxena
Director & Editor
Documentary, 20 min · A short documentary about the performance “Polyxena: Female Voices of Troy” by Fox on Ice
Production: Wortwiege · In post-production
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Are You Coming for Christmas?
Director & Editor
Fiction, 8 min
Production: Filmakademie Wien · In post-production
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Echos einer Utopie
Editor
Documentary, 20 min
Directors: Daniel Kalkhofer & Evamaria Müller · In post-production
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Korean Dreams
Editor
Fiction, 15 min
Director: Emil Kaschka · Production: Lena Petsch & Filmakademie Wien · In post-production
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Wear That Smile
Director & Editor
Music video, 6 min
Production: Hannah Resatz · Music: Wapi · Label: Alt Orient
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Winds, Games, Dreams
Editor
Short experimental
Director: Eva Basta · Production: Eva Basta & Lukas Rosatti
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2025
Kleine Mädchen sind nicht wütend
Editor
Fiction, 12 min · Video und Filmtage Vienna 2026
Director: Alara Yılmaz · Production: Alexandra Isabel Reis
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Meni Moja Ljubav
Editor
Music video, 4 min
Director: Tamara Tasić · Production: Emilija Filipović · Music: Niko Nikolić
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Talent Hunter
Director & Editor
Fiction film, 5 min
Production: Filmakademie Wien
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Oh Kellner
Director & Editor
Music video, 4 min
Co-Director: Chiara Schmelcher · Production: Julia Reiter · Music: David Maresch
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Inner Rhythm
Director & Editor
Documentary, 8 min · A short documentary about raqs sharqi
Production: Filmakademie Wien
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Viktor
Producer & Editor
Fiction, 20 min · Austrian premiere Diagonale 2025
Directors: İrem Gökçen & Aron Eichhorn · Co-production: Luna Filmworks (TR)
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2023–25
Scars of a Putsch
Assistant to the Director & Archival Researcher
Feature documentary, 102 min · World premiere Berlinale Forum 2025
Director: Nathalie Borgers · Production: Mischief Films (AT) · Co-production: Novak Prod (BE)
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2023–24
Under the Debris
Director & Editor
Experimental short documentary, 4 min
Best Student Short Documentary, Turkish World Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul (2023)
Best Experimental Short, Austrian Film Festival, Vienna (2023)
Best Experimental Short, 8th AFSAD International Short Film Festival, Ankara (2025)