Kaan Müjdeci

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Kaan Müjdeci (right) at the press conference after the screening of the film Sivas at the 2015 Seattle Turkish Film Festival

Kaan Müjdeci (born September 24, 1980 in Yozgat ) is a Turkish film director , screenwriter and producer .

For his debut film Sivas , he was awarded the Special Jury Prize for directing at the Venice International Film Festival in 2014 .

Live and act

Kaan Müjdeci grew up in different cities in Anatolia such as Ankara , Şanlıurfa and Malatya . In 2003 he moved to Berlin to study there. He was not admitted to university and instead began operating an open-air cinema. With his brother Yasin he opened the bar Luzia on Oranienstrasse in Kreuzberg . In 2010 the brothers opened the fashion store Voo Store on the same street . He tried in vain to study at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Instead, he took part in a six-month workshop at the New York Film Academy .

Career

In 2010 he shot the short film Day of German Unity in Berlin . In 2011 the short film Jerry followed in New York, which was shown at the Berlinale 2011 on the Berlinale Talents Campus . In 2012, the documentary Babalar ve Oğulları (Fathers and Sons) about dog fights in Central Anatolia, which was shown at the Kraków Film Festival 2012, followed.

In 2014, he shot the feature film Sivas in his grandparents' village, where he spent his holidays . The film is about an eleven year old boy, his fighting dog and his becoming a man. After the rough cut, he immediately tried to submit the film to various film festivals, although he had no contact with the film industry. In Venice he convinced the festival director Alberto Barbera to show his debut film in the main competition. He was awarded the special prize of the jury for his direction.

In September 2015, the Artistic Activities Committee of Turkey selected the film Sivas for the Best Foreign Language Film competition at the Oscar . The film was funded by the Turkish Ministry of Culture with a small amount of money. In Turkish media reports it was not mentioned that Müjdeci lives in Berlin. In Turkey, however, it was emphasized that only Turkish amateur actors took part in the film. Müjdeci, on the other hand, saw the film as a German film, as his team, like the cameraman, consisted partly of Germans. The German film funding did not participate in the film. The German press and the features section took no notice of him in 2015. Der Spiegel suspects that you can only get along with a director of Turkish origin in Germany. The defeat of Fatih Akin made headlines, but the victory Müjdeci brought only a few small messages.

Müjdeci Film did not make it into the shortlist of nine films from 81 countries for the Oscar, which was published on December 17, 2015. The five nominees were finally selected from this shortlist.

His second feature film followed in 2015 with Iguana Tokyo . The post production was u. a. in Cannes L'Atelier of the Cannes Film Festival, presented at the 34th Istanbul Film Festival and Cinelink 2015 of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Personal

In Berlin, he first moved to the Mitte district . He told the magazine Der Spiegel : “I didn't feel like all the Turks in Kreuzberg. We are not the same Turks. Comparing German Turks and Turks is like saying to a German whether he is German or Austrian, it doesn't matter. It's the same anyway. "

Filmography

Feature films

  • 2014: Sivas (producer, director and screenplay)

Short films

  • 2010: Day of German Unity (producer, director and screenplay)

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Kaan Müjdeci  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaan Müjdeci . Turkish Culture Foundation
  2. ↑ a b c d Mareike Nieberding: Who is the greatest . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 2015, p. 136-137 ( online ).
  3. ↑ oscars.org
personal data
SURNAME Müjdeci, Kaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Yozgat