Burhan Qurbani

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Burhan Qurbani (born November 15, 1980 in Erkelenz ) is a German film director and screenwriter of Afghan origin.

Life

Burhan Qurbani was born the son of Afghan political refugees in Germany, where he also grew up. His parents emigrated to Germany from Afghanistan in 1979. He attended the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Leinfelden-Echterdingen . After graduating from high school in July 2000, Qurbani worked as an editorial assistant for the women's magazine Elle in Stuttgart from November of the same year . This was followed by work as assistant director at the Stuttgart State Theater from January 2001 . Through his work as a camera assistant at the Stuttgart film production company teamWerk , Qurbani came into contact with film and began studying drama at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in October 2002 . In 2006, the 35-minute short film Birds Without Legs (2006) was made in collaboration with the Potsdam Film and Television University . This was planned as a pilot film for a never realized television series about a Turkish family in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

He first drew attention as a director in 2007 with Illusion . In the nine-minute short film, Anne Ratte-Polle can be seen as a Berlin subway controller who loses her job. In 2008, the student project was awarded the jury award of the Hamburg International Short Film Festival and the short film award of the film review at the Dresden Film Festival . In mid-October 2008, Qurbani received the Black Pearl, endowed with 25,000 US dollars, for the best student film at the Middle East Film Festival in Abu Dhabi .

At the end of January 2009, filming began on Qurbani's graduation film at the film school, Shahada (original working title: The Ladder to Heaven ), named after one of the five pillars of Islam . The drama is a co-production of the newly founded company bittersuess pictures by Pepe Danquart and the small television game of ZDF and tells the fate of three Muslims in Berlin, whose stories unfold in the fasting month of Ramadan : While a Turkish policeman (played by Carlo Ljubek ) went into debt If a work accident leaves his wife and child, a young Nigerian (Jeremias Acheampong) finds it increasingly difficult to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith. Meanwhile, the worldview of a young Turkish woman ( Maryam Zaree ) clashes with that of her father, a Turkish clergyman.

With Shahada, Qurbani said he wanted to film the contradictions between the Islamic and German cultures in which he grew up. In 2010 he received an invitation to compete at the 60th Berlin Film Festival for his first feature film .

Qurbani gave guest talks at Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard University), NYU, the University of New Mexico and the University of Hong Kong. In 2016 Qurbani was a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

In 2020, Qurbani realized a free film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alfred Döblin with Berlin Alexanderplatz , with the plot being relocated to contemporary Berlin and the main character being an illegal African immigrant (played by Welket Bungué ). In the same year he received his second invitation to compete at the 70th Berlinale for his third feature film, but the film did not receive a prize. When the nominations for the German Film Award 2020 are announced , Berlin Alexanderplatz leads the field of favorites with eleven nominations. Qurbani himself received nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay .

Burhan Qurbani lives and works in Berlin . He speaks German, English and Persian. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he worked as a singer in the English-language rock band Pretty Used until 2007 .

Filmography

Awards (selection)

Film Festival Dresden

  • 2008: Short Film Award of the Film Critics for Illusion

International Short Film Festival Hamburg

  • 2008: Jury Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation for Illusion

Middle East Film Festival

  • 2008: Black Pearl in the Best Narrative - Student Films category for Illusion

Festival of German Films

  • Film Art Prize 2010 in the categories Most Original Form of Representation and Most Original Subject for Shahada

Berlin International Film Festival

  • 2010 : Prize of the Guild of German Art Theaters for Shahada

Grimme Prize

Rome International Film Festival

Peace Prize of German Films - The Bridge

Bavarian film award

German film award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e cf. Press kit (PDF; 4.0 MB) for Die Himmelsleiter at blog.derbraunemob.info (accessed on January 24, 2010)
  2. ↑ a b cf. Portrait ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at voegel-ohne-beine.de (accessed on January 24, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.voegel-ohne-beine.de
  3. ↑ cf. Information (PDF; 112 kB) on Shahada at berlinale.de (accessed on February 8, 2010)
  4. ↑ cf. Press kit (PDF; 1.9 MB) on birds without legs at voegel-ohne-beine.de (accessed on January 24, 2010)
  5. ↑ cf. Award winners . In: Sächsische Zeitung, April 21, 2008, p. 25
  6. ↑ cf. Steve Jacobs' Disgrace wins $ 200,000 Black Pearl prize at Abu Dhabi . In: Screen International, October 19, 2008 (accessed January 24, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  7. ^ The competition of the 70th Berlinale and final selection of the Berlinale Special . In: berlinale.de, January 29, 2020 (accessed January 29, 2020).
  8. ↑ Nominations 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed on March 11, 2020).
  9. ^ Festival of German Films : Film Art Prize 2010 (accessed April 26, 2011)
  10. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Grimme Prize 2011: The winners have been chosen - Gottschalk and the other winners. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Stephen Daldry's Trash wins top Rome Film Festival Award . ( screendaily.com [accessed January 31, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Qurbani, Burhan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Afghan film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkelenz , North Rhine-Westphalia