Ayşe Polat

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Ayşe Polat (born November 19, 1970)[1] is a German script writer and film director. She simultaneously 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]

She lives in Hamburg.[4]

Filmography[]

  • 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)

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "En Garde". Kultura-Extra (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-05-01.
  2. ^ 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 978-0857457691
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Ayse Polat". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "An Unprejudiced View beyond Cultural Borders". Qantara.de.

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