Turkish-German cinema

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Turkish-German Cinema historians and theoreticians of film sometimes call movies out of Germany directed by German-Turkish filmmakers. These films often raise transcultural issues and have some other specific similarities.

Fatih Akın is the most important Director of Turkish-German Movies. Others are for example Yüksel Yavuz, Buket Alakuş, Thomas Arslan, Hussi Kutlucan, Seyhan Derin, Sülbiye Günar, Neco Çelik, Züli Aladağ, Mennan Yapo, Adnan G. Köse and Özgür Yıldırım.

Yüksel Yavuz is a Kurdish film director from Turkey.

Thomas Arslan German-Turkish film director and screenwriter

Thomas Arslan is a German-Turkish film director. He directed more than ten films since 1990.

Züli Aladağ is a German-Kurdish film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

The first Turk in Germany who did a movie was Tevfik Başer (40 m2 Deutschland).

Tevfik Başer is a Turkish-German film director and screenwriter. His film Lebewohl, Fremde was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.


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