Asligül Armağan is a Brooklyn–based filmmaker working across documentary and narrative film.

In 2019, she joined the documentary team behind the Academy Award–winning film Icarus (2017). She went on to help produce The Dissident (2020), an investigation into the cover-up following the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, received a BAFTA nomination, and won the Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary. She also worked on Icarus: The Aftermath (2022), a poignant sequel examining the cost of whistleblowing in the wake of the Russian doping scandal, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.

She began her career in film and television development at George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Working Title Films. In 2018, she was selected as the first Turkish honoree of the BAFTA Newcomers Program and is now a BAFTA member, juror, and mentor.

Her narrative work centers on independent short films that use psychologically driven, horror-inflected storytelling to explore mental health, reproductive rights, and other urgent contemporary questions.

She is currently completing her feature-length directorial debut, filmed across Turkey and Lebanon, which examines questions of home, memory, and diasporic identity.

Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, Armagan holds a dual master's degree in Global Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and a bachelor's degree in History from Durham University in the United Kingdom.