Nuray Şahin

Nuray Şahin (* 1974 in Tunceli , Turkey ) is a Kurdish-German film director, screenwriter and actress.

Life

She studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in Berlin . Her main subjects are directing and scriptwriting, but Şahin occasionally also works as an actress in front of the camera.

Her short film "The Last Patrone" ran in competition at the Berlinale in 2000 and was nominated for the Peace Prize. Your graduation film Follow the Spring! (2004) with Pegah Ferydoni , a German-Zaza immigration melodrama, premiered in London and received the audience award at its German premiere at the 2004 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . Further awards at festivals in Germany and Turkey followed. Follow the spring has been running since 2005 ! within the small television game of the ZDF also several times on German television. Your film “I want justice” (ZDF / 3sat 2019) is about two YezidiSisters - one in Germany, the other just fled from IS and still in the refugee camp in Northern Iraq.

Filmography

• I want justice! (2019)
• The Last Cartridge (2000)
• 2004: Follow the spring!
• 2004: Crime Scene - Odin's Revenge
• Far as the Sun (1996)
• Dare (1997)
• Istanbul-Berlin (1997)
• FO-TO-CHU (1997)
• Veronika (1999)

Awards (selection)

• Audience Award - International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (2004)
• Best Young Director (National Competition) - International Film Festival in Ankara (2005)
• Best Screenplay (National Competition) - International Film Festival in Ankara (2005)
• Best Cinematography German Television Award 2005
• Audience Award at the Torino International Women's Film Festival, Italy

Web links

• Nuray Sahin in the Internet Movie Database (English)