Dirk Schäfer: Kurdish Cinema Jury member at 8th Duhok IFF

Director of Bekar Evi — The Bachelor House (2019) started making films in Munich in 1984, where he was professionally trained as a film editor. He won Best Director Film Award at the Max-Ophüls-Festival in Saarbrücken for his first feature film The white dwarves (1989). He started a teaching career within the film department at Istanbul Bilgi University and continued making documentaries, among them And they live in Mardin (2009) and A sort of love (2012), which received an honorable mention at the DOK Leipzig Festival.