“Bekleme Odasi” (“The Waiting Room”), which won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2004 Valencia Festival, is a deep reflection on the creative process and about loneliness and alienation. The film was directed, written, photographed and edited by Zeki Demirkubuz, who also starred in it. The atmosphere of the film is dark, as are the ideas of the protagonist. The story is uncomfortable and ambiguous, like real life. The result is a powerful psychological drama and a metaphor of the problems of writers and others artists. The plot begins when film director Ahmet is trying to make a film version of Dostoyevsky's “Crime and Punishment” and believes himself to be arrogant and faithless while others think of him as an idealist, and a man of principles." Oscar Peyrou, FIPRESCI Valencia Film Festival, 2004

"In Bekleme Odası (The Waiting Room, 2003), Zeki Demirkubuz tries to disconnect himself from his aesthetic concerns and stylistic attachments in order to deliver a film that unmasks the mythical approach to auteurism and intellectual intensity. In other words, the film demystifies the idea of the intellectual film director in a rather vulgar manner. Through its consciously inelegant minimalism and distractive spectacle editing, The Waiting Room unpolishes the mystified reality of the auteur director, not only by revealing him in the most casual and ordinary situations, but also by cutting loose from all the predetermined ways of aestheticizing everyday banality" Firat Yucel, Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales of Zeki Demirkubuz, 2007