Ardin Diren is a Kurdish filmmaker and photojournalist born in 1988. He served as a Jury Member at the third edition of the KIFF (Yılmaz Güney Edition) in 2022. He studied Radio, Cinema, and Television at Akdeniz University in Antalya 2010-2015 and developed his cinematic interests through documentary filmmaking and visual storytelling. During his university years, he directed the documentary Recycling, focusing on environmental issues and ecological awareness.

Alongside filmmaking, Diren worked as a freelance journalist and photojournalist, participating in photography workshops and documentary training programs. His cinematic work focuses on social issues, Kurdish identity, language, ecology, and everyday human life.

In 2019, his documentary Every House is a School received several national and international awards, including Best Kurdish Documentary at the 7th Duhok International Film Festival and the Joan Van Der Keuken New Talent Award at the 12th Istanbul Documentary Film Festival.

His documentaries have been screened at multiple international festivals in Turkey, Spain, and Italy. He later began working on the documentary project A Handful of Seeds, supported by European Union cultural funds, focusing on ecological agriculture and environmental sustainability.