Name Ayse Polat | Role Script writer | |
Movies En Garde, Tour Abroad, Die Erbin, Grafin Sophia Hatun Similar People Pinar Erincin, Maria Kwiatkowsky, Haluk Piyes, Maria Kopf, Tuncel Kurtiz |
Ayşe Polat (born November 19, 1970) is a German script writer and film director. She simulatenously identifies herself as German, Turkish, and Kurdish.
She was born in Malatya and moved to Germany when she was eight. Polat studied German, philosophy and cultural sciences at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Bremen. Her film En garde was awarded Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2004 and the German Film Critics Award for Best Fiction Film in 2005.
Polat admires the work of David Lynch, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick and Kurdish director Yılmaz Güney.
She lives in Hamburg.
Filmography
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