Germany 1995Language:Kurdish, Turkish, GermanSubtitles:GermanDirector:Yüksel YavuzWriter:Yüksel Yavuz, Britta OhmCinematographer:Rolf Blank, Ralf KlingelhöferEditor:Arpad Bondy, Markus SilberschmidtSound:Veronique Friedmann, Martin HeckmannProducer:Thomas KufusProduction Company:zero one film GmbHDistributor:zero one film GmbH52 min, Colour

Yüksel Yavuz is 15 years old when his father takes him to Germany after a summer on the Kurdish high plains. His father had taken this route for the first time in 1968: from shepherd to welder at a Hamburg shipyard. The physical and emotional distance between life in the workers’ housing estate “Klein-Istanbul” (Little Istanbul) and village life in Turkey has left its mark on the family. The mother remains in her homeland, while the father becomes a summer star guest with suitcases full of presents. Until he can stand it no longer and returns. The journey is, however, travelled many more times: By the parents who visit their grandchildren in Germany, and by the son who visits his parents with a film crew. (Anna Hoffmann)

Director's Biography:Yüksel Yavuz, born 1964 in Karakoçan, Turkey, moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980, studied economics and later completed a degree in visual communication, specialising in film. The films he has been making since 1994 have been screened at national and international festivals. 

Director's Filmography:

2014 HÊVÎ (DOC)
2007 CLOSE-UP KURDISTAN (DOC)
2003 KLEINE FREIHEIT
1998 APRILKINDER