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Elif Demiroğlu

Born September 17, 1987 · Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (age 38)

Elif Demiroğlu is a Turkish-German director, writer, and producer based in Berlin. After a decade in architecture and urban design, she pivoted to filmmaking to explore class, migration, and gender through dark comedy and emotional precision. Her debut short film Traces (2025) — a feminist drama about invisible labor and quiet rebellion — is currently on the festival circuit, officially selected …

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Traces

A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open resistance, she responds through private, invisible acts, leaving behind subtle traces that insist on her presence.

Cherry Flavored Death

Cherry Flavored Death

Cherry Flavored Death

MovieComedyDrama

When a pathologically well-behaved woman is told she will die in 24 hours from a condition caused by emotional repression, she finally begins to feel—rage, defiance, desire—only to survive and discover that the institution that diagnosed her cannot allow her to live.

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Traces

A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open resistance, she responds through private, invisible acts, leaving behind subtle traces that insist on her presence.

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Cherry Flavored Death

Cherry Flavored Death

Cherry Flavored Death

MovieComedyDrama

When a pathologically well-behaved woman is told she will die in 24 hours from a condition caused by emotional repression, she finally begins to feel—rage, defiance, desire—only to survive and discover that the institution that diagnosed her cannot allow her to live.

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