
Acting
Sema Poyraz
Born 1950-03-07 · Zonguldak, Turkey
Acting credits
6.2Selim is a mentally disabled man in his forties who was raised with great sacrifice by his family. An incident that occurs on his brother Zafer's wedding day will turn everything upside down. An event that befalls Selim will lead his family members to a sad fate where they will discover truths they were previously unaware of.
Özür Dilerim
2013
6.4Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for another. In 3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, director Dietrich Brüggemann portrays existences in which relationships, social networks and backdrops are in a constant state of flux; where best friends are the only, and therefore the most valuable constant. Humorous sketches of the self-conception of a generation for whom moving has become the symbol of a life on the go.
Move
2012
5.6At first glance, Leyla and Tristan are a happy couple. When they travel to a mysterious island, a game of identities begins that changes everything – their perception, their sexuality, their entire selves. But not only their relationship threatens to break up. They may even never be who they used to be again…
Skin Deep
2023
6.1Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she struggles in vain, in her dream life she evolves in secret. But what if waking and dreaming were never separate and the real secret is shored by all?
8 Seconds
2015
5.3Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns at night back to the crime scene and has an appearance that make his blood freeze! When he turns to the medium Morgana, he lifts the veil on a cruel mystery.
The Forgotten
2011
Short film about a visit gone wrong.
Fremd. Yaban.
2007
5.6Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage that looks flawless on the outside. Elmas, a young woman on the verge of breakdown, opens a new path in her.
Clair Obscur
2017
5.0An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.
Heil
2015
5.0Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he’s needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Nobody knows his name or that by day he’s the caretaker of a shabby tenement building. He pushes boundaries and suffers defeats that cost him the last of his strength. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.
Dr. Ketel - Der Schatten von Neukölln
2011
6.2Richard lives apart from his wife. He is unemployed. His life is really not running smoothly right now. Rather by chance, he gets into conversation with the director of his daughter's school, who is desperately looking for teachers - which gives Richard an idea. He is a mathematician. And after all, everyone can become a teacher!
Lehrer kann jeder!
2022
4.9Janus has just left a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. His only reason to live has been letters from his high school friend Amina. When the letters suddenly stop, Janus is sure that something terrible has happened to her. To make sure she is alright, he sets out to find her.
Letters to Amina
2017
5.6Cem Balta, an aspiring imam, lives in Hanover with his wife Sehra and daughter Hanna. For the family, German culture is just as much a part of their lives as Turkish culture. At least that's what they thought until now. But when they take in Pia, the child of a friend, after a tragedy, they suddenly find themselves confronted with old prejudices. Even in their immediate environment, their decision to raise Pia causes heated discussions. And soon Pia's grandparents Christine and Theo Unger, who do not want their granddaughter to grow up with strangers and certainly not with practicing Muslims, also get involved. A custody battle ensues, which suddenly becomes about values such as faith, family and home...
Das deutsche Kind
2017
4.9It's summer and very hot in Germany's only open-air swimming pool for women. There, women bathe topless, in a bikini, bathing suit or burkini. Each follows different rules. This always leads to friction, which the overwhelmed lifeguard is not quite able to control. When a group of completely veiled women enthusiastically discovers the women's bath for themselves, rags literally fly: Who owns the bath and who makes the rules? Who owns the female body? And when is a woman a woman at all? The lifeguard resigns, exasperated. But when a man of all people is hired as the successor as lifeguard, the situation escalates in unpredictable directions.
Freibad
2022
1.025 years ago, Cornelius left his then girlfriend Julia to live with Frank. After Julia fled to the USA at the time, she is now returning and wants to live in the former common house, which puts the relationship between Cornelius and Frank to the test.
Das Leben vor mir
2018
4.0During The Feast of the Sacrifice, all family, sons, daughters, granddaughters, relatives gather at the country house of Rıza Gülsoy. Rıza's family celebrates the holiday while they share the good memories, dine, drink, sing, and dance. Horror starts when one of the granddaughters of Rıza the emperor, suddenly disappears.
We Were Dining and I Decided
2016
5.0A year ago, her beloved Nico was run over by a truck. The shock of death caused sommelier Anne to lose her sense of smell and taste. Now she receives a letter from Holland: the annual rent for the eggs she fertilized twelve years ago is due! A baby as a legacy - and a new start, not only Anne thinks, but also her colleague Conny. Only Hilde, an ex-policeman with two sons, thinks motherhood at almost 50 is a crazy idea. Despite her reservations, she takes them to the fertility clinic in Amsterdam.
Doppelzimmer für drei
2018
NRLuks Glück is a tragicomedy about the dubious happiness of a Turkish family between Hamburg and Istanbul, whose life by a lottery win out of joint.
Luks Glück
2012
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ich Chef du nix
2007
Why has the German film and television industry so far not found a natural way of dealing with people with a migration background? The documentary "Kino Kanak" begins a complex search for traces.
Kino Kanak: Warum der deutsche Film Migranten braucht
2020
Behind the camera
NRGölge, which means “shadow” in Turkish, is the name of a teenage girl. Gölge is the daughter of Turkish immigrants and belongs to the so-called “second generation” at the end of the 1970s. She lives with her younger sister and her parents in a small two-room apartment in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Gölge - Schatten
1980
A patient tracking shot and an unforgettable aerial view of the Berlin Wall establish both the visual and literal rhetoric of this wellorchestrated documentary. Compelling black and white portraits punctuate the interviews with established Turkish Germans and newcomers. They live in the shadow of the wall and speak of ist uncanny coldness. The stoic voiceover spoken by Norbert Langer recites Frank Kafka’s text “Before the Law,” a story about a man who stands at a door and refuses entry to one particular person. […] (Karina Griffith)
Die Türhüter
1988
Good neighborliness and mutual affection characterize the relationship between an elderly lady and her Turkish neighbor and her son. When the boy is killed in a fight with skinheads, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. The elderly lady observes her Turkish neighbor's isolation with curiosity and dismay, until she makes a surprising discovery.
Oda
1992
A documentary about the lives and history of Turkish immigrants in three centuries of Berlin history.
Halbmond und Preußenadler - Meine Reise durch Berlin
1987
By comparing the St. Nicholas celebrations in Islamic and Protestant communities in Berlin, the relationship between the religions is explored.
Stille Nacht im fremden Land
1986
By comparing the St. Nicholas celebrations in Islamic and Protestant communities in Berlin, the relationship between the religions is explored.
Stille Nacht im fremden Land
1986