Mustafa Suha Arın (23 January 1942 – 1 February 2004) was a Turkish film director, writer, producer and educator.
He was born in Balikesir, Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. In 1965, he went to USA to receive his license degree on film directing from Howard University and his master's degree on mass communication from the American University. He also worked as a translating speaker and interviewer at the Voice of America Radio, and as the Washington DC reporter of Turkish Radio and Television. He returned to Turkey in 1974.
In his productive career lasting for 40 years, Suha Arın produced about 50 documentary films, many of which won national and international awards. Arın, who revealed the traditional and contemporary values of Turkey and Anatolian cultures in his films, also had an educator identity. He lectured at many universities over forty years and contributed to the education of many film-makers and academicians. He died at age 62 in Istanbul due to chronic heart failure.
Today, Suha Arın is commonly recognized as a master of the Turkish documentary cinema, not only by his films but also by his approach to the education of documentary film-making.
On February 1, 2004, he died in Istanbul at Haseki Cardiology Institute where he was being treated.
The Ten Colours of Asia Minor - A Film Production Guide to Turkey (2000)
A Statue of Liberty in Cyprus (1997)
The Photographs of Denktas (1997)
Istanbul the Golden City (1996)
Ayasofia (Hagia Sophia) (1991)
Re-evaluation of Sinan Through Huseyin Anka (1990)
The Memoirs of Sinan the Architect (1989)
As Euphrates Becomes a Lake (1986)
The Story of Houses in Anatolia (1984)
The Oil Road of Anatoila (1982)
Dolmabahce Palace and Atatürk (1981)
Forty Thousand Steps in the Covered Bazaar (1980)
The Eternal Flame of Lycia (1977)