Burhan Qurbani
Burhan Qurbani (born 15 November 1980 as Erkelenz ) is a German - Afghan film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Burhan Qurbani was born the son of Afghan political refugees in Germany, where he also grew up. His parents had emigrated from Afghanistan to Germany in 1979. He attended the Immanuel-Kant -Gymnasium in Leinfelden. After graduation in July 2000, Qurbani worked as an editorial assistant for the women's magazine Elle in Stuttgart in November of the same year. This was followed from January 2001 to work as an assistant director at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Through his work as a camera assistant at the Stuttgart film production company teamwerk Qurbani came into contact with the film and began in October 2002, a degree in Scenic directing at the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg. Was established in 2006 in collaboration with the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam the 35-minute short film birds without legs (2006). This was planned as a pilot never realized television series about a Turkish family in Berlin- Kreuzberg.
For the first time attention to himself as a director he made in 2007 with illusion. In the nine-minute short film Anne is seen rat - Polle as the Berlin subway inspector who loses her job. The study work was awarded a prize in 2008 with the jury prize at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg and the Short Film Critics' Prize at the Filmfest Dresden. Mid-October 2008 Qurbani received on the Middle East Film Festival in Abu Dhabi worth 25,000 U.S. dollars Black Pearl for Best Student Film.
End of January 2009 started filming Qurbanis graduation film at film school, Shahada (original working title: The ladder to heaven ), named after one of the five pillars of Islam. The drama is a co-production of the newly founded company bitter sweet pictures of Pepe Danquart and the little teleplay of the ZDF and tells the story of three Muslims in Berlin, whose stories come to pass in the month of Ramadan: while a Turkish policeman (played by Carlo Ljubek ) for a debt service accident leaves his wife and child, a young Nigerians can ( Jeremias Acheampong ) arrange increasingly difficult his homosexuality with his faith. Meanwhile, gets the worldview of a young Turkish woman ( Maryam Zaree ) with her father, a Turkish clergy, together.
With Shahada wanted to Qurbani, according to his own statements, cement the contradictions between the Islamic and German cultures on film, in which he grew up. In 2010 he received an invitation to the competition of the 60th Berlin Film Festival for his first feature film.
Burhan Qurbani lives alternately in Berlin, Stuttgart and Helsinki and speaks German, English and Persian. Besides working as filmmaker he participated in the English rock band Pretty Used as a singer.
Filmography
- 2007: Illusion (Short Film )
- 2010: Shahada
- 2010: 20xBrandenburg ( TV documentary, part: Warrior without an enemy )
Awards
Festival of German Films
- Art of Film Award 2010 in the categories of most original form of presentation and most original theme for Shahada
International Film Festival Berlin
- 2010: Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas for Shahada
Filmfest Dresden
- 2008: Short Film Critics' Prize for Illusion
International Short Film Festival Hamburg
- 2008: Jury Award of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation for Illusion
Middle East Film Festival
- 2008: Black Pearl in the category of Best Narrative - Student film for Illusion