Bruce Lee in Kreuzberg and Scarface in Altona: Transnational Auteurism and Ghettocentrism in Thomas Arslan's "Brothers and Sisters" and Faith Akin's "Short Sharp Shock"

Abstract

This trend is associated with young filmmakers like Fatih Akin, Thomas Arslan, Aysun Bademsoy, Seyhan Derin, Ayse Polat, and Yilksel Yavus. Some critics also include the Turkish filmmakers Kutlug Ataman and Sinan Cetin and the German Lars Becker.2 Discussions of Turkish-German c inema mainly focus on male a rtists, despite the fact that female directors, such as Ayse Polat, Aysun Bademsoy, and Seyhan Derin, have