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Auf nach Alanya! Neue Heimat Türkei (To Alanya! A new Home in Turkey)

D: Jochen Menzel, Germany 2005, 42 min.

Ein Bäcker, der deutsches Brot backt und inzwischen auch unter den Türken großen Zuspruch findet; eine Kosmetikerin, die zusammen mit ihren drei Angestellten einen florierenden Beauty-Salon unterhält und viele Altersruheständler, die es sich an der türkischen Riviera gut gehen lassen. Allesamt deutsche Auswanderer, die in Alanya einen neuen Lebensabschnitt begonnen haben.
Der Film, gedreht im Mai 2005, berichtet von einer sich rege entwickelnden, deutschen Gemeinde und dem mitunter amüsanten deutsch-türkischen Alltag. Er stellt auch die zur Zeit so aktuelle Frage nach Integration und Parallelgesellschaften. Diesmal allerdings in eine andere Richtung - an die deutschen Einwanderer in der Türkei.

A baker, a beauty-salon owner and a large number of retirees that enjoy
themselves at the Riviera in Turkey - all of them emigrants from Germany who started all over again.
The film, shot in May 2005, reports on the brisk developing German community and an amusing Türkisch-German everyday life. It emphasizes urgent questions on integration and 'parallel societies' turning it all around for German migrants in Turkey.

Am Rande der Städte (In the Outskirts)
Director: Aysun Bademsoy, 2005
"Deutschländer" are Turkish people, which removed back to Turkey after decades in Germany. For many of them their assumed home dismantles as strange: Insular from the environment, they live in apartment- complexes in the outskirts like all-inclusive-tourists. The German-Turkish filmmaker Aysun Bademsoy explores the living-conditions in this colonies and creates a film diary. The results of the research show a video-installation and a documentary movie in the end.

Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Director: Fatih Akin, Germany/ Turkey, 2007, 122min.
Akin's latest movie is about a father and son, and a mother and a daughter; it's also about the gulf and gap between Europe and Turkey, between the West and Islam, between repentance and forgiveness.

Brothers and Sisters
Director: Esra Ersen, Turkey 2003, Multilingual with English subtitels;
As in previous works, Esra Ersen becomes part of a group in Brothers and Sisters. For six months, she accompanies a number of illegal immigrants from Africa and becomes acquainted with their world, describing their cultural milieu and restricted social environment in her video. Ersen draws the viewer’s attention to the cultural and social conflicts between the immigrants and the Muslim inhabitants of Istanbul.

Hotel Almanya
Director: Ebru Karaca, Turkey 2004
Short feature film about a hotel in Istanbul where "illegal" migrants were detained by the police.

In Transit - A documentary on transient migrants
Director: Berke Bas, Istanbul, 2004, 40 min.
In Transit is a 40-minute digital video documentary about transnational migration focusing on the Istanbul step of journey to Europe and North America for many migrants from the Middle East, West Africa and South Asia and chronicling the wait of three migrant families who have tried or are still trying all possible means to travel to a western country.

Jannan - Die Abschiebung (The deportation)
Director: Tim van Beveren, Germany 1984-1986, 102 min.
Inspired by several real single destinies of in Germany living foreigners and asylum seekers the film tells the story of the young Kurd Jannan, which takes refuge to Germany, to get away from the political persecution in his Turkish homeland.

Unawarded Performances - A film on Moldavian women working in Istanbul households
Director: Gülsün Karamustafa, Turkey 2004, Moldovan/Turkish
The film is based on the reality of Moldavian women consumed in rich households in Istanbul which contrasts with their representation in the Turkish media.

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