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Complete Filmography

Hysteria
2025
as Mustafa
A film shoot takes a dark turn when the burning of a Quran throws the crew into turmoil. Caught in accusations, intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous ...

Brides
2025
as Barış
Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.

About Luis
2025
as Jens boss
The two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life. Their situation intensifies when their ten-year-old son L...

Dirty Angels
2024
as Abbas
During the United States' 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of female soldiers posing as medical relief are sent back in to rescue a group of ...

Die Amitié
2024
Two people meet on the bus to Lübeck. You come to the Hanseatic city to work. The Polish Agnieszka as the carer of an elderly gentleman with dementia,...

Ararat
2023
as Ali
Zeynep has caused a traffic accident in Berlin. She escapes to her parents’ home in Turkey where her self-destructive and sexually assertive behaviour...

In the Blind Spot
2023
as Eyüp
A film crew from Germany, filming in a remote village in northeastern Turkey, interviews an elderly Kurdish woman. She performs an ancient ritual to k...

Split Second
2023
Sometimes a fraction of a second is all it takes to change the world forever. The film Split Second tells the backstories of three of the most influen...

Whispers of War
2021
as Hamid
When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire ex...

Turning to Dust
2020
Due to unpaid wages, Elif and her husband are deep in debt. Elif’s husband wants to return to Turkey, but she believes there’s a better future for her...

The Little Refugee
2020
In 2015, the Syrian boy Aylan appeared dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey. The image shocked and alerted the world to the refugee crisis. The film im...

The Washing Machine
2020
as Hassan
The washing machine bites the dust: turning the humdrum life of a young couple upside down.

Hope
2019
as The Human Smuggler
Running from the war, Hêvî (‘hope’ in Kurdish) and Walat await the human trafficker who will drive them across the border in the freezing cold. Beyond...

Are You Listening Mother?
2019
as Deniz
A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years of house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. The charge: supporting terrorist activities. From now on ...

Das Milan-Protokoll
2018

Zagros
2017
as Youssef
Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip abou...

Black Crow
2016
as Yılmaz
Sara is a famous Iranian actress lives in France for years. She lost her contact with her family she left in Iran, when she immigrated to France at 17...

Black Horse Memories
2015
as Elias
A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authoritie...

Song of My Mother
2014
as School Teacher
A young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.

The Fall from Heaven
2014
as Yusuf
A woman works as electrical engineer in a construction site where mostly Kurdish workers are employed. After the death of her brother in a clash durin...

Silence
2010
Director, Writer, Editor
During the civil war in Turkey, many people were assassinated or disappeared while in custody. Mothers and families of the ones who disappeared in cus...

The Scent of Figs
N/A
as Ümit