Ayşe Polat
Ayşe Polat (born November 19, 1970 in Malatya , Turkey ) is a German director and writer from the Berlin School with a Turkish-Kurdish background.
life and work
Ayse Polat began filming on Super 8 and video at the age of 15 . In 1991 she received a sponsorship award at the national youth and video competition for her milieu study Alienated . In 1992 he made the short film Fremdnacht , which was sponsored by the Hamburg film office . The short film Ein Fest für Beyhan (1994) has received awards at numerous festivals. a. the WDR sponsorship award. Also Countess Sophia Hatun (1997) toured many international festivals and won the Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in 1997 in Ankara.
Her first feature film followed in 2000, the Road Movie International Tour '. It ran successfully at many international festivals a. a. in competition at the International Film Festival in Tokyo and Karlovy Vary. For her first feature film "En Garde" she won the "Silver Leopard" at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2004, the two actresses Maria Kwiatkowsky and Pinar Erincin shared the leopard for best actress. [2] In 2005 Polat was awarded the German Critics' Prize for this film.
On March 4, 2006, her first theater work Otobüs premiered in the Berlin Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2). The play is about the kidnapping of a group of German package tourists in Turkey. [3]
In 2010 Ayse Polat shot the film Luks Glück, a tragic comedy about a Turkish family between Hamburg and Istanbul, whose life is upset after winning the lottery.
The 2013 feature film The Heiress takes a young woman from Germany back to her deceased father's homeland. His story is told in flashbacks. The film deals with topics like family, love and honor. This film premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Ayse Polat's first documentary, The Others, followed in 2016. The film was shot in the former Armenian province of Van in eastern Anatolia. The region is home to the Van Cat, an animal that Armenians, Kurds and Turks revere culturally. The director uses this connection as a clever introduction to make the painful and suppressed past visible on location. For this, the film received awards at the Beyond the Borders Documentary Film Festival. This film was made during the Artist in Residence grant at the Tarabya Culture Academy, Istanbul 2015/2016
In 2017/2018 she was invited by the research group Cinepoetics as Artist in Residence at the Free University of Berlin.
Since 2018, the director has staged several episodes of the series The Public Prosecutor for ZDF .
Filmography (selection)
- 1991: Alienated (short film)
- 1992: Foreign Night (short film)
- 1994: A festival for Beyhan (short film)
- 1997: Countess Sophia Hatun (short film)
- 2000: foreign tour
- 2004: En Garde
- 2010: Luks luck
- 2013: the heiress
- 2016: The Others (documentary)
Awards
- 1991: Federal Youth and Video Competition Award for Alienated
- 1994: West German Broadcasting Award for A Festival for Beyhan
- 2000: Ankara International Film Festival, 1st prize in the Best Directing Debut category, for touring abroad
- 2004: Silver Leopard International Film Festival Locarno, for En Garde
- 2004: Otto Sprenger Director's Prize, for En Garde
- 2005: Jury Prize International Film Festival Ankara, for En Garde
- 2005: German Critics' Prize in the Best Cinema Film category for En Garde
- 2010: German Film Award for Editing, Luks Glück
- 2018: Beyond the Borders Documentary Film Festival, 1st prize in the Best Socio-political Documentary category, for The Others
- 2018 Ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness, Dok.Leipzig 2016 for The Others
swell
- ^ Ayşe Polat. March 13, 2017, accessed September 28, 2019 .
- ^ Ayşe Polat - Gezici Festival. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
See also
Web links
- Ayse Polat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polat, Ayşe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and author of Kurdish origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malatya , Turkey |