Directing
Aysun Bademsoy
Born March 14, 1960 (age 66)
Aysun Bademsoy was born in Mersin in 1960 and aged nine moved to Berlin, where she still lives. She made her first foray into film as an actress, whilst also studying theatre and media studies at Berlin’s Free University. She got together with students from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) and took on assistant editing and directing roles. Her first documentary film saw her wor…
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The State I Am In · 2001The State I Am In
★ 6.82001
MovieDrama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
Pilots · 1995Pilots
★ 6.21995
MovieDramaTV Movie
Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all behind and living in Paris. An unlikely but entertaining plot develops, where anything can happen.
Am Rand der Städte · 2006Am Rand der Städte
2006
Movie
Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.
South · 1990South
★ 4.91990
MovieDocumentary
A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens—is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at the window. The heat of an idle day of holiday, perhaps. The South, a place of longing.
Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe · 1999Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe
★ 7.01999
MovieDocumentary
A documentary film about a Berlin police unit comprised of five former foreign nationals. Their primary areas of operation are neighborhoods with a high immigrant population. The camera follows them on their day and night shifts, documenting operations and arrests, and exploring the unit's self-image.
Game Changers · 2025Game Changers
2025
MovieDocumentary
“You got to try to live your own life,” Arzu, one of the football players from the Turkish-Kreuzberg girls’ team Ağrı Spor, demanded in a 1995 film by Aysun Bademsoy. Today she is in her late forties and leads her own life, like her former teammates Türkan, Nalan and Nazan. Bademsoy visited the four of them for the fourth time, following their lives, recalling their visions for the future from back then. And this time she also talked to their daughters, some of whom on the brink of adulthood, who also think about adaptation, tradition, religion and culture. Little has changed between then and now, being German remains a difficult question to answer for every generation.
Ehre · 2011Ehre
2011
MovieDocumentary
Documentary about individual and social meanings of the word "honour".
The Warm Money · 1992The Warm Money
★ 6.11992
MovieCrimeDrama
Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don’t own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men while sipping drinks with them in bars. When Heike takes over her job, her technique doesn’t prove as successful and she ends up being caught at once.
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Direktion City · 1976Direktion City
★ 5.01976
SeriesCrime
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