Monthly Archives: September 2018

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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) … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Krüger aus Almanya (Krüger from Germany)

With actors Horst Krause, Karim Günes, and Anna Unterberger. Aired on German television by ARD, Krüger aus Almanya is the story of Paul Krüger (Krause), a xenophobic widower who used to be a stone mason in the GDR.  He is … Continue reading

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