Aslı Özge

VITA

Aslı Özge born 1975 in Istan­bul, stud­ied direct­ing at Mar­mara Uni­ver­si­ty Film Acad­e­my, lives in Berlin. Her fea­ture film debut MEN ON THE BRIDGE pre­miered at the Locarno and Toron­to film fes­ti­vals and was award­ed Best Film at var­i­ous fes­ti­vals. Özge wrote and direct­ed LIFELONG in 2013 and her first Ger­man-lan­guage film AUF EINMAL in 2016, both of which pre­miered at the Berli­nale Panora­ma. In 2023, her film BLACK BOX opened the New Ger­man Cin­e­ma sec­tion at the Munich Fes­ti­val and won the Best Screen­play Award at the Rome Film Fes­ti­val. Her lat­est film FARUK pre­miered in 2024 in the Berli­nale Panora­ma and won the Fipresci Award.