Ayşe Polat
Ayşe Polat (born November 19, 1970)[1] is a German script writer and film director. She simulatenously identifies herself as German, Turkish, and Kurdish.[2]
She was born in Malatya[1] and moved to Germany when she was eight. Polat studied German, philosophy and cultural sciences[3] at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Bremen.[1] Her film En garde was awarded Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2004 and the German Film Critics Award for Best Fiction Film in 2005.[3]
Polat admires the work of David Lynch, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick and Kurdish director Yılmaz Güney.[4]
Filmography[3]
- Fremdennacht (1992), short
- Ein Fest für Beyhau (1994), short; won the WDR Promotion Prize in Muenster and first prize at the Turkish Film Festival in Nuremberg[4]
- Gräfin Sophia Hatun (1997), short; won the Jury Prize at the Ankara International Film Festival[4]
- Yurtdisi turnesi (1999), television
- Auslandstournee (2000); won the Young Director's Talent Prize at the Ankara International Film Festival[4]
- Luks Glück (2010)
- Die Erbin (2013)
References
- ^ a b c "En Garde". Kultura-Extra (in German).[permanent dead link]
- ^ Cox, Ayça Tunç (2012), "Hyphenated Identities: The Reception of Turkish German Cinema in the Turkish Daily Press", in Hake, Sabine; Mennel, Barbara (eds.), Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens, Berghahn Books, p. 169, ISBN 0857457691
- ^ a b c "Ayse Polat". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
- ^ a b c d e "An Unprejudiced View beyond Cultural Borders". Qantara.de.
External links
- Ayşe Polat at IMDb
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
 | This biographical article related to film in Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1970 births
- Living people
- German people of Kurdish descent
- German people of Turkish descent
- German film directors
- German women film directors
- German screenwriters
- German women screenwriters
- People from Malatya
- Free University of Berlin alumni
- University of Bremen alumni
- Turkish emigrants to Germany
- German film biography stubs