Yüksel Yavuz

Hêvî (2014)

Close-Up Kurdistan (2007)

A trip back to the own roots, into the troubled country of Kurdistan. ...

A Little Bit of Freedom (2003)

Hamburg. Baran, a Kurdish orphan, and Chernor, a refugee from Africa, are living in the shadows of a city that barely registers their existence. Bound by statelessness and survival, they carve out a fragile friendship on the margins, stealing glances of fr ...

Der Mann mit dem weißen Mantel (2000)

A day in the life of a "stranger" in the metropolis of Istanbul. ...

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. ...

My Father the Guest Worker (1995)

The Kurdish director Yüksel Yavuz tells in an autobiographical documentary about the life of his father, who worked as a so-called guest worker at a Hamburg shipyard from 1968 to 1984. Never really at home, he only knew the way to work, the fish market an ...

Close-Up Kurdistan (2007)

A trip back to the own roots, into the troubled country of Kurdistan. ...

My Father the Guest Worker (1995)

The Kurdish director Yüksel Yavuz tells in an autobiographical documentary about the life of his father, who worked as a so-called guest worker at a Hamburg shipyard from 1968 to 1984. Never really at home, he only knew the way to work, the fish market an ...