Yılmaz Arslan
Yılmaz Arslan (born 20 April 1968) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.[1]
Biography
Yilmaz Arslan was born in Kazanll, Turkey, but has lived in Germany since 1975. In 1992, at the age of just 24, he made his debut film, Langer Gang, for which he subsequently won many awards. By his second film, Yara (1999) (Filmclub Award at the 1999 Max Ophüls Festival), he was simultaneously carrying out the roles of director, writer, and producer. The same is true of his 2005 film Fratricide (Silver Leopard at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival) co-produced by Tarantula Luxembourg and sold in 26 countries. Besides his activities of producer, screenwriter and director, he taught cinema at Goethe Institut network in Europe. He is consultant for script-development of the Medien-und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG). In 2016, he created a new production company: MaxMa Film GmbH
Filmography
- 1992 : Langer Gang
- 1999 : Yara
- 2002 : Angst isst Seele auf (short film)
- 2005 : Fratricide
- 2017 : Sandstern
References
- "Yilmaz Arslan". Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V., Frankfurt am Main (in German). Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- "Brudermord - Trailer, Kritik, Bilder und Infos zum Film". prisma.de (in German). Retrieved 20 May 2019.