Mehmet Aktaş

출생 : , Iğdır, Turkey

약력

Mehmet Aktaş is a Kurdish filmmaker, producer, author and journalist born in Turkey but living in Germany. He is founder and chief executive of the film production and distribution company mîtosfilm in Berlin. In the middle of the 1990s Aktaş came to Germany after he had finished his studies at law school in Istanbul. In Germany he was wondering because as well the German people as the institutions disregarded Near Eastern cinema, especially the Kurdish cinema. Therefore, he founded the first Kurdish Film Festival in Germany in 2002 which has been supported by the "Hauptstadtkulturfonds". With Mîtosfilm Aktaş produced feature films like Close up Kurdistan (2007) directed by Yüksel Yavuz, Land of Legend (2008) directed by Rahim Zabihi, and Après la Chute (2009) directed by Hiner Saleem. In 2009 Mehmet Aktaş was successful as producer of No One knows about Persian Cats directed by Bahman Ghobadi which was honored at the Film Festival Cannes with the award Un Certain Regard. Mîtosfilm also functions as filmdistribution, focusing on new Turkish, Kurdish, Iraqi and Iranian auteur cinema. Since 2004 Mîtosfilm has also released films in German cinemas: Turtles can fly (2004), Two Girls from Istanbul (2005), Süt (2008) and Min dît (2010). These films illustrate Aktaş' political aspiration of giving a more authentic image of the life in the Near East than the local news. Mehmet Aktaş also wrote the screenplay for Hisham Zaman's second feature film Letter to the King (2014) which received the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at Goteborg Film Festival 2014. Mîtosfilm's latest production Memories on Stone (2014) directed by Shawkat Amin Korki and written by Mehmet Aktaş and Korki was awarded at Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014 as Best Film from the Arab World. Korki won the prize as "Best Director" at Cinedays Skopje – 13th Festival of European Film. "Memories on Stone" was released in Swiss cinema-theaters by the prestigious distributor Trigon Film in November 2014. Since 2011 Aktaş is also artistic director for the Duhok International Film Festival.

참여 작품

In the Blind Spot
In the Blind Spot
Producer
A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly women performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7–year–old turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and and fear for his family's well being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people developes a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
시험
시험
Producer
보수적 남편과 결혼해 만족스럽지 못한 삶을 사는 여자가 있다. 여동생만은 자신처럼 불행한 결혼을 하지 않기를 바라기에, 그녀가 꼭 대학에 진학하기를 희망한다. 여동생의 대학 진학을 위해 뭐든 할 각오가 된 여자는 조직적인 부정행위에 개입하게된다. 하지만 시험 보러 가는 여동생에게 부정행위의 요령만 알려주면 끝날 줄 알았던 사건은 점점 악화된다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)
The Legend of the Ugly King
The Legend of the Ugly King
Producer
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.
Das Milan-Protokoll
Das Milan-Protokoll
Producer
Ugly Ducking
Ugly Ducking
Co-Producer
Eylem is a young woman. She lives in a small Kurdish town and works at a rug workshop. She thinks her nose is too large, and dreams of having cosmetic surgery. However, one of her brothers has joined the political organization, and many others from the same town have died in clashes. Will Eylem manage to find a way out of this challenging dilemma?
Reseba: The Dark Wind
Reseba: The Dark Wind
Writer
Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.
Memories on Stone
Memories on Stone
Screenplay
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.
Memories on Stone
Memories on Stone
Producer
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.
Letter to the King
Letter to the King
Script
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a young woman is haunted by the past and out for vengeance and an old man named Mirza is busy writing a letter to the king to get his final wish granted. An altogether urgent and nuanced portrait of a motley group of individuals, too often regarded as a homogeneous group.
아무도 페르시안 고양이를 모른다
아무도 페르시안 고양이를 모른다
Co-Producer
실화를 바탕으로 만든 기록영화 스타일 영화다. 이란에서 언더그라운드 인디음악, 특히 서양음악을 한다는 건 매우 위험한 행위다. 그러나 젊은이들은 몰래 숨어서 락, 힙합, 블루스 등을 연습하고, 외국의 음악축제에 가서 연주하고 싶어한다. 런던의 음악축제에 가기 위해 이런저런 밴드의 멤버들을 모으고, 결국 가짜 여권을 만드는 사람을 찾게 되는데...
Daf
Daf
Producer
This documentary shows us how a Daf elaborated. It's about a family that all their children are blinded and they're running their family business. They're making Dafs which is an Iranian hand percussion musical instrument and nowadays it's mostly played in Kurdish folk songs.