Hasan Ali Mete

Garip Bülbül Neşet Ertaş (2022)

Garip Bülbül is about the life story of the great bard Neşet Ertaş. Neşet Ertaş, who signed 400 records and many cassettes throughout his life, wrote many poems under the pen name "Garip". The film tells the unknowns about both the private and career ...

Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster (2022)

Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a photographer of music bands, full of touring, joints and rock 'n' roll, the woman in her mid-sixties has no desire f ...

Werkstatthelden mit Herz (2020)

Until now, Carlo thought he was living a quiet, manageable life. And he seemed content with his "small world". But somehow, things have not been running smoothly in Carlo's life for a few weeks now. At home, problems are emerging with his son Hendrik and w ...

Berlin, I Love You (2019)

An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital. ...

Tehran Taboo (2017)

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran's schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition ha ...

Kebab extra scharf! (2017)

Johann and Mustafa appear on television to set an example of successful integration. However, the television appearance goes awry because a dispute breaks out in front of the camera. And because Johann hasn't been paying any rent for months, Mustafa wants ...

Inspector Pascha (2016)

A Turkish man's body is found floating in the Isar. A case for the Migra Division headed by Zeki Demirbilek, AKA "Inspector Pascha". On their first big case, the team quickly manages to get on the wrong side of Munich's Doner King, Güzeloğlu, who's about ...

Der Urbino-Krimi: Mord im Olivenhain (2016)

"Poliziotto" Roberto Rossi grows his own olives. Shortly before the harvest begins, however, the small-town police officer makes a terrible discovery in his grove: the respected forensic scientist Professor Saltari is dead. Apparently he has been murdered. ...

Der Hodscha und die Piepenkötter (2016)

Ursel Piepenkötter Mayor of Lautringen is about to be re-elected. But the town's Turkish community wants to finally build its new mosque and she wants to prevent this. Does the construction of the mosque inevitably threaten the Islamization of the West? Q ...

Gut zu Vögeln (2016)

After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends. ...

Leberkäseland (2015)

Leberkäseland "tells the story of an atypical integration that begins in the 1960s: the Maleks come to Germany not as guest workers but as a family of dentists: reactionary teachers, down-to-earth neighbors and all-around pop music - only Leberkäse is a ...

GrossStadtklein (2013)

A comedy about a crazy summer of young provincial guy in Berlin. ...

Tod in Istanbul (2010)

Cologne/Bonn Airport: Detective Inspector Mark Kleinert transfers the young Turkish man Baran Sahin, who has been arrested for illegal possession of weapons, to Istanbul. Seemingly a routine operation - until Kleinert receives a call from his lover Carla P ...

Killing the Shadows (2006)

Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and die ...

Tote Hose – Kann nicht, gibt’s nicht (2005)

Thomas has a problem: the single man has crashed a borrowed Ferrari into the wall without insurance and now needs a lot of money to pay for the damage. When he accidentally runs in front of the convertible of likeable photographer Lisa and ends up in hospi ...

Kebab Connection (2004)

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is unce ...

All About Bob (1999)

Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very wealthy banker, her father does a little research on his future son-in-law and finds out the truth about Bob. ...

Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)

Lola is part of "The Migrant Workers", a Turkish drag queen troupe who perform to great acclaim. Lola's gay little brother Murat, on the other hand, is just beginning his search for an identity. An intense family drama set in "Anatolian" Berlin-Kreuzberg. ...

April Children (1999)

The film depicts the daily life of a Kurdish German family in Hamburg. Cem, one of sons, earns his living in a slaughterhouse and has a secret love affair with a German prostitute. ...

Reise in die Nacht (1998)

Flirt (1995)

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" rel ...