Yılmaz Arslan

Yılmaz Arslan (born 20 April 1968) is an award-winning Kurdish German film director, screenwriter and producer.

Biography

Yılmaz Arslan was born in Kazanlı, 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) (which also won many awards), he was simultaneously carrying out the roles of director, writer and producer. The same is true of his 2005 film Fratricide.

Filmography

Year	Film	Roles
1992	Langer Gang	Director/writer
1999	Yara	Director/writer/producer
2003	Angst isst Seele auf	Producer
2005	Fratricide	Director/writer/producer

Awards

Yilmaz Arslan has won many awards during the course of his career:

Year	Festival	Award	Film
1992	San Sebastián International Film Festival	Best New Director	Langer Gang
	OCIC Award - Honorable Mention	Langer Gang
1993	Bergamo Film Meeting	Silver Rosa Camuna	Langer Gang
	Max Ophüls Festival	Interfilm Award	Langer Gang
1998	Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival	Golden Orange for Best Film	Yara
1999	Istanbul International Film Festival	Special Prize of the Jury for National Competition	Yara
	Max Ophüls Festival	Filmclub Award	Yara
2005	Locarno International Film Festival	Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention	Fratricide
		Silver Leopard	Fratricide
		Youth Jury Award (3rd place)	Fratricide

He was also nominated for the Golden Leopard Award at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival and the Max Ophüls award at the 1999 Max Ophüls Festival.

References

• "Yilmaz Arslan". Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V., Frankfurt am Main (in German). Retrieved 26 April 2010.

External links

• Yılmaz Arslan at the Internet Movie Database