Yüksel Yavuz
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Yüksel Yavuz is a Kurdish
film director from Turkey.
Since 1980, he has lived in Germany. From 1986 to 1989 he studied sociology and economics in Hamburg
. He produced his first film in 1994, an autobiographical documentary about the experience of his father as a guest worker
and his mother, who stayed behind in the village. He has won a number of awards.
Kurdish people
The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
film director from Turkey.
Since 1980, he has lived in Germany. From 1986 to 1989 he studied sociology and economics in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. He produced his first film in 1994, an autobiographical documentary about the experience of his father as a guest worker
Gastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter is German for "guest worker." It refers to migrant workers who had moved to West Germany mainly in the 1960s and 70s, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker programme...
and his mother, who stayed behind in the village. He has won a number of awards.
Filmography
- 1994: Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter
- 1998: Aprilkinder
- 1999: Beyaz mantolu adam
- 2003: Kleine FreiheitKleine FreiheitKleine Freiheit is a 2003 film by Kurdish director Yüksel Yavuz about the friendship between two teenage boys who are illegal immigrants in Germany.- Plot :...
(A little bit of freedom) - 2007: Close up Kurdistan