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Mehmet Aktaş
Mehmet Aktaş (born 1966 in Iğdır, Turkey) is a Kurdish filmmaker, producer, author, and journalist. He was born in Turkey but currently resides in Germany. Aktaş is the founder and chief executive of the film production and distribution company, Mîtosfilm, based in Berlin. In the mid-1990s, Aktaş moved to Germany after completing his studies at law school in Istanbul. While in Germany, he noticed that German audiences often disregarded cinema from the Near East, particularly Kurdish cinema. To address this, Aktaş founded the first Kurdish Film Festival in Germany in 2002, which was supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With Mîtosfilm, Aktaş has produced feature films such as '' Close up Kurdistan'' (2007) directed by Yüksel Yavuz, '' Land of Legend'' (2008) directed by Rahim Zabihi, and '' Après la Chute'' (2009) directed by Hiner Saleem. In 2009, Aktaş was successful as the producer of ''No One Knows About Persian Cats'' directed by Bahman Ghobadi, which was ...
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