Shirins Hochzeit (Shirin’s Wedding)
With actors Ayten Erten, Jürgen Prochnow, Aras Ören, and Aliki Georgouli. Shirin (Erten), a young Turkish woman, leaves Anatolia in search of Mahmud, to whom she was betrothed as a child, traveling first to Cologne, where she finds work and hopes to find him. Buoyed by the support of her colleagues, she begins to adapt […]
Sensin – Du bist es!
With actors Fatih Akin and Adam Bousdoukos. Fatih Akin’s first film, this short comedy won the Audience Award at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg in 1996. Kubilei, a young Turkish man in Hamburg, Germany, knows his dream woman will love three things: Marlboro, punk, and Robert de Niro. She also has to be Turkish… […]
Schattenboxer (Shadowboxer)
color, Germany, Lars Becker, 77 Min, 1992 With actors Diego Wallraff, Christian Redl, and Alfred Kleinheinz. When incarcerated gangster Eddi (Wallraff) finds out his new friend Timbe (Kleinheinz), a deserter from an African country where he faces a death sentence, is being deported, they hatch a plan to stop his deportation that brings them face […]
Saniyes Lust (Saniye’s Passion)
With actors Idil Üner and Daniel Krauss. The German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) graduation film of Verena S. Freytag, credited pseudonymously as Sülbiye Günar, originally aired on ZDF television and follows the travails of a young couple, Turkish-German Saniye (Üner) and her husband Tom (Krauss) as they try to solve their marital problems by getting […]
Salami Aleikum
With actors Navid Navid, Anna Böger, and Michael Niavarani. Mohsen Taheri (Navid), an Iranian-German butcher’s son is on his way to Poland to acquire sheep in a bid to save his father’s business. Along the way, he stops in a small town in eastern Germany where he falls for a local German woman, Ana (Böger) […]
Palermo oder Wolfsburg (Palermo or Wolfsburg)
With actors Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Brigitte Tilg, and Ida Di Benedetto. Werner Schroeter’s Swiss/West German coproduction follows Nicola (Zarbo), an Italian immigrant who comes to West Germany looking for work. Despite his language difficulties, Nicola is quick to settle in and falls in love with a German girl, Brigitte (Tilg). When Brigitte leaves him, […]
Nefesim Kisilene Kadar (Until I Lose My Breath)
With actors Esme Madra and Riza Akin. Nefesim Kisilene Kadar, director Emine Emel Balcı’s debut feature, follows Serap (Madra), a young Turkish girl who is forced to abandon her unsatisfying life working at a clothing factory and living with her sister and brother-in-law, moving in with her truck driver father (Akin), who needs more help […]
Min Dît (Before Your Eyes)
With actors Senay Orak, Muhammed Al and Berîvan Eminoglu. Two young Kurdish siblings living in Diyarbakir in Turkish Kurdistan, Gülîstan (Orak) and Firat (Al), are placed into the care of their activist aunt Yakbun (Eminoglu) after their parents are murdered in front of them by paramilitary gunmen. When Yakbun herself goes missing, the two children […]
Luks Glück (Luk’s Luck)
With actors René Vaziri and Sinan Bengier. A Turkish-German family is not only spoilt for choice but riven by it when young Luk wins the lottery. Things get harder, not easier, as entire family must decide what to do with the money. Links: IMDB, YouTube (Trailer) Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Kückückskind (Cuckoo Kid)
With Ava Celik, Robert Alexander Baer, Natalia Wörner, and Siir Eloglu. Switched by accident at birth, Dominik Greve (Baer) and Ayse Güngör (Ava Celik) are reunited with their birth families for two weeks in an attempt to get to know each other. Stereotypes are drawn upon as cultures clash and the protagonists come to grow […]