Sema Poyraz

Skin Deep (2023)

At 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 bre ...

Freibad (2022)

It'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 ...

Lehrer kann jeder! (2022)

Richard 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 ...

Kino Kanak: Warum der deutsche Film Migranten braucht (2020)

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. ...

Das Leben vor mir (2018)

25 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. ...

Doppelzimmer für drei (2018)

A 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 le ...

Clair Obscur (2017)

Şehnaz, 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. ...

Das deutsche Kind (2017)

Cem 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 ...

Letters to Amina (2017)

Janus 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 ...

We Were Dining and I Decided (2016)

During 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 wh ...

Heil (2015)

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany. ...

8 Seconds (2015)

Esra 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 strug ...

Özür Dilerim (2013)

Selim 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 sa ...

Move (2012)

Eleven 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 i ...

Luks Glück (2012)

Luks 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. ...

The Forgotten (2011)

Swastikas 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 a ...

Dr. Ketel - Der Schatten von Neukölln (2011)

Berlin'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 ...

Ich Chef du nix (2007)

Fremd. Yaban. (2007)

Short film about a visit gone wrong. ...

Die Türhüter (1988)

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 ...

Gölge - Schatten (1980)

Gölge, 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- ...