Devrim Alpoge was born on May 8, 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was introduced to cinema at an early age thanks to his father who offered him an 8 mm camera. His family moved to France in 1983. Five years later, he realized with the same camera a short fiction film which won a prize at the IFSAK festival in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied management and began working for the Turkish press as a correspondent. At the beginning of the new millennium, the digital video environment prompted the director to produce his own films. One of his short films, Then There Was Body, a 3-minute experimental film on plastic packaging, was shown in a dozen international festivals and won a prize in Girona, Spain. Two videos produced in 2010, French Lessons for the Turks and Turkish Lessons for the French, have both been visualized more than 30,000 times on the Internet. Devrim works today as a voice-over actor for television.