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Ibrahim Emre

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Films

Hinter der Tür

Hinter der Tür

By Neco Çelik

2004 | 16 min | Shorts

Based on a true story, it tells the story of a Turkish woman living illegally in Germany who becomes the target of a police detective who goes after illegal aliens in Berlin. Alexander Kamensky's Chief Inspector of the Police Directorate 4 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. His job: foreigners. For fifteen years he has been scanning the neighborhood to find illegal aliens. If a suspect can't produce a residency permit, Kamensky starts deportation proceedings. Last year alone, he donated free flights to over over ...

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Urban Guerillas

Urban Guerillas

2003 | 82 min | Drama

2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls: Neco Celik the "German Spike Lee" drew an authentic portrayal of inner-city youth culture. "Neco Çelik's URBAN GUERILLAS stages the Berlin sprayer and graffiti scene like an MTV clip from the Bronx … URBAN GUERILLAS... has what most German films are missing and for which there are no German terms: "attitude" and “street credibility”. (Die Welt) "Neco Celik's URBAN GUERILLAS is like a message in a bottle from a parallel universe... ...

Everyday

Everyday

2002 | 91 min | Drama

"In ALLTAG things are on the brink of exploding and the stakes are truly high (with none of bad movies pretenences). There's palpable risk in the air, just as in in Scorsese's Bronx." (WELT) 'You don't get something for nothing' and 'Those who take risks, fall the furthers or rise the highest' are 2 of Veit's favorite mottos. And he decides that today will be unlike every other. Determined to go and never return, Veit has the girl of his dreams, a brother full of good intentions and a friend with ...

Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen

Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen

1981 | 13 min | Shorts

A young woman walks straight from the subway at Hamburg Central Station into the strangely somnambulistic world of an overnight train. She starts rummaging through the bags of sleeping passengers. These are at first gentle, then increasingly urgent incursions, an immersion into the intimate details of private lives on anonymous terrain. "The magic of the first movie! We are immersed in the dialog-free scenery of a night train in the 1980s, in which the protagonist rummages subversively and undisturbed ...

Zoe

Zoe

1992 | 15 min | Shorts

Zoe is an elevator girl at the TV tower on Alexanderplatz and lives in a cramped bathroom. Maren-Kea Freese shows the everyday life of a woman in a city in transition who is searching for herself. ZOE was made in 1992, not long after the reunification of Berlin. The film shows in poetic black and white and 16mm images East Berlin districts like Mitte before many buildings were modernized or have vanished. ZOE captures a moment in Berlin's history and paints a sensitive portrait of "Generation X" ...

The Birthday

The Birthday

2015 | 16 min | Shorts

Berlin-based, Italian multi-talent Daniela Lucato was inspired by a love poem written by Christina Rossetti for her internationally recognized short film THE BIRTHDAY. The story: Ron is a young Taiwanese girl who lives in Berlin. On her birthday her best friend May comes to visit. Ron is secretely in love with May but she keeps May in the dark about her feelings. May though has a feeling that something is up and both of their lives are about to change. Filmmaker Daniela Lucato met the actress Vivian ...

Only One Blink

Only One Blink

2020 | 10 min | Shorts

Bastian meets Isabell by chance in an elevator and secretly writes his phone number on one of her cigarettes. But she accidentally smokes it and loses that chance to contact him. Isabelle goes to a radio station she knows Bastian likes and goes on the air to give an 'I'm searching for' call, but the very second she is live on the radio, which he is listening to, he gets a phone call and doesn't hear her. She waits for him but of course he won't appear, or is there a chance of a replay, a chance ...

Like A Summer Sonata

Like A Summer Sonata

2016 | 11 min | Shorts

LIKE A SUMMER SONATA consists of four parts named after the classical structure of a sonata. In timeless black and white, it's a surreal, modern-day morality fairy tale. Paloma shares a dark secret with Stephen and she uses it to play with him according to her rules. Torn between being attracted to and being scared of him, she follows him everywhere he goes, trying to find out more about him. LIKE A SUMMER SONATA by Natalie McMahon celebrated its premiere at the Cannes Short Film Corner and played ...

Night Shifts

Night Shifts

2010 | 97 min | Documentary

Some people work and live at night by choice, others because fate has compelled them to do so. Still others use darkness to operate in secret. At time when most of the city is asleep, the film accompanies the night active as they go about their business and sheds light on the essence of night in today’s big cities. Director Ivette Löcker's declaration of love for the night. The film looks at the many the different angles of what it means to live and work in darkness.

This is what it looks like

This is what it looks like

1984 | 5 min | Shorts

This unique architectural documentary shows both the apartment's interior, with its art posters, dishes strewn across the kitchen table and leafy plants as signifiers of a non-conformist lifestyle, as well as views of the courtyard and street. The studio's inhabitant remains unseen but is present through the point of view cinematography. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) awarded the film its prize for its creative use of cinema in exploring urban space and lifestyle. The short experimental ...

Rot

Rot

2004 | 3 min | Shorts

A woman who has a penchant for the color yellow loves a man who only has eyes for the color red. To win him over, she comes up with a few ideas to convince him of her merits. Will her love be reciprocated? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz often combines socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches in his works. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting ...