Yüksel Yavuz

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Yüksel Yavuz
Born1 February 1964
Karacokan
EducationUniversity of Hamburg
OccupationFilm Director

Yüksel Yavuz (born 1 February 1964 in

Kurdish
film director from Turkey.

Early life and education

Since 1980, he has lived in Germany, where he lived with his father[1] who had found work at the port of Hamburg.[2][1] From 1986 to 1989 he studied sociology and economics at the University of Hamburg and from 1992 to 1996 visual communications at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg.[1]

Professional career

His first film from 1995 he produced for the German public broadcaster

Kurdish diaspora and the signification of the homeland for the refugees and immigrants.[3] Longing for Istanbul focuses on the several nationalities that have settled in Istanbul while Hope on the human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey.[4]

He has won a number of awards.[5]

Personal life's involvement in the movies

His father has acted in two of his movies, the autobiographical documentary My Father, the Guestworker and then also in Children of April.[6] Besides a character in the movie Children of April works in a meat factory similar to one, Yavuz himself was working for a while as well.[6] The documentary Close - Up Kurdistan involves places of his childhood in Karaçokan and an interview with a relative.[6]

Filmography

  • 1992: Hoch-Zeit[6]
  • 1993: Freedom Pension[6]
  • 1993: Coromandel[6]
  • 1994: 100 und 1 Mark (Hundred and one Mark)[6]
  • 1995: Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter (My Father the Guestworker)[7]
  • 1998: Aprilkinder (Children of April)[6]
  • 2000: Beyaz mantolu adam (Man with the white coat)[8]
  • 2003: Kleine Freiheit (A little bit of freedom)[6]
  • 2007: Close up Kurdistan[6]
  • 2010: Sehnsucht nach Istanbul (Longing for Istanbul)
  • 2013: Hevî (Hope)[9]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.5070/T711009701
    .
  2. ^ a b "MEIN VATER, DER GASTARBEITER - Archiv". bi’bak (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  3. ^
    JSTOR 27701117 – via JSTOR
    .
  4. ISSN 0931-9085
    . Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  5. ^ "Yüksel Yavuz - Regisseur | NEWA FILM" (in German). 21 June 2017. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kraenzle, Christina (2009), p.106
  7. ^ "Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter". www.zeroone.de.
  8. ^ Almancı. "Beyaz Mantolu Adam / Der Mann mit dem weißen Mantel | GEGEN DIE LEINWÄNDE" (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  9. ^ "Hêvî - Hoffnung | Film 2013 | moviepilot.de". www.moviepilot.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-14.

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