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Ayşe Polat
Ayşe Polat (born 19 October 1970) is a German-Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
In 1992 she releases the short film Fremdennacht, which is supported by the Hamburg Film Bureau. Her 1994 short film Ein Fest für Beyhan wins several awards, including the WDR sponsorship prize. Gräfin Sophia Hatun (1997) also tours several international festivals and receives the Special Jury Prize at the Ankara International Film Festival.
Her feature film debut Tour Abroad (1999) toured numerous international festivals and partook in the international competition of Karlovy Vary and Tokyo. Polat received the award for best directorial debut at the Ankara International Film Festival.
Her second feature film En Garde (2004) was screened as the Locarno Film Festival opening film and received the Silver Leopard for Best Film and Best Actresses, Maria Kwiatkowsky and Pinar Erincin. In 2005, Polat received the German Critics Award for En Garde.
In 2006, Polat directed her first theater work Otobüs at Berlin's Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2). The play deals with the kidnapping of a group of German package tourists in Turkey.
Polat co-produced her third feature film Luks Glück. The tragicomedy tells the story of a Turkish family between Hamburg and Istanbul, whose life is thrown off course when they win the lottery.
In 2013, her film The Heiress, which she also produced, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film deals with the return of a young woman from Germany back to the home country of her deceased father.
Her first documentary The Others is completed in 2016 and has its international premiere at DOK Leipzig.
Ayşe Polat
Ayşe Polat (born 19 October 1970) is a German-Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
In 1992 she releases the short film Fremdennacht, which is supported by the Hamburg Film Bureau. Her 1994 short film Ein Fest für Beyhan wins several awards, including the WDR sponsorship prize. Gräfin Sophia Hatun (1997) also tours several international festivals and receives the Special Jury Prize at the Ankara International Film Festival.
Her feature film debut Tour Abroad (1999) toured numerous international festivals and partook in the international competition of Karlovy Vary and Tokyo. Polat received the award for best directorial debut at the Ankara International Film Festival.
Her second feature film En Garde (2004) was screened as the Locarno Film Festival opening film and received the Silver Leopard for Best Film and Best Actresses, Maria Kwiatkowsky and Pinar Erincin. In 2005, Polat received the German Critics Award for En Garde.
In 2006, Polat directed her first theater work Otobüs at Berlin's Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2). The play deals with the kidnapping of a group of German package tourists in Turkey.
Polat co-produced her third feature film Luks Glück. The tragicomedy tells the story of a Turkish family between Hamburg and Istanbul, whose life is thrown off course when they win the lottery.
In 2013, her film The Heiress, which she also produced, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film deals with the return of a young woman from Germany back to the home country of her deceased father.
Her first documentary The Others is completed in 2016 and has its international premiere at DOK Leipzig.