THE CUT

A screenwriter, director and producer, he was born in 1973 in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Turkish immigrants. He studied at the University of Fine Arts. After making two short films, he achieved his breakthrough in 1998 with his debut feature Short Sharp Shock. His international success came with the melodrama Head-On, for which he won the Golden Bear, the German Film and the European Film Awards. He documented the diversity of the Istanbul music scene in Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul. His next feature film The Edge of Heaven won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes 2007. The Cut is the final film in his trilogy about “love, death and the devil,” following Head-On and The Edge of Heaven.