Şerif Gören (Greek: Σερίφ Γκιορέν, romanized: Seríf Gkiorén, 1 July 1944 – 8 December 2024) was a Turkish film director.
Aside from important films under his own signature, he was also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol, which he had directed on behalf of Yılmaz Güney, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder of Yumurtalık judge Sefa Mutlu.
[1] Gören started his film career as an editor, and then continued as an assistant director to Yılmaz Güney.
As he served as the chairman of the Film Directors Association during 1979–80, he was arrested in the aftermath of the 1980 military coup.
[2] Gören died of complications from a fall on 8 December 2024, at the age of 80.