Bülent Akıncı (born 10 March 1967) is a Turkish–German director and script writer. Since 1970 he lives in Berlin. In his youth he earned his money as musician, security guard and by selling insurances while he was finishing his graduation certificate from high-school. After high-school he registered to study philosophy, art history, theatre sciences at

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli ...

. Then he was taken to study directing at Kaskeline Film School, which was founded 1926 in Berlin by German filmmaker Wolfgang Kaskeline. In 1996 Akıncı changed to DFFB

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) is a film school in Berlin, Germany. In the German film school ranking of FOCUS (Issue 22/2006), the dffb - together with the Academy of Media Arts C ...

to finish his studies. After shooting some short films, he finally won the

F. W. Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at th ...

prize in 2002 for his short film ''A short story'' (2001), starring actress

Gudrun Landgrebe Gudrun Landgrebe (; born 20 June 1950) is a German actress. Landgrebe was born in Göttingen, grew up in Bochum, and attended theatre school in Cologne from 1968 until 1971. In 1971 she made her debut at Stadttheater Bielefeld. She also app ...

. His first feature named '' Der Lebensversicherer'' was produced in 2006 and shown at the

56th Berlin International Film Festival The 56th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 19 February 2006. The festival opened with '' Snow Cake'' by Marc Evans. Digitally restored version of Sam Peckinpah's 1972 film '' Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' served as the closi ...

. It later won a prize at the

28th Moscow International Film Festival The 28th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 2 July 2006. The Golden George was awarded to the Swedish film ''About Sara'' directed by Othman Karim. Jury * Andrzej Żuławski (Poland – Head of the Jury) * Alexei Uchit ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Akinci, Bulent 1967 births Living people Turkish emigrants to Germany Film people from Berlin Turkish film directors Turkish male screenwriters German male screenwriters