Züli Aladağ (born 2 January 1968, Van, Turkey) is a German film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is of Kurdish and Turkish descent. Biography Aladağ immigrated to Germany in 1973 and grew up in Stuttgart. After a short theatre study in Munich, he completed a six-month internship at Roland Emmerich's Moon 44 in Stuttgart. There, he followed numerous collaborators in shorts, advertisements, plays and documentary films as a production assistant, recording manager and director assistant. Later, he worked as an editor and co-director for documentary TV series. Since 1993, he has worked as a producer, and since 1995, he has been working as a freelance filmmaker on documentary films and feature films. He is often the author of his own books. He graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in the summer of 1999. His 2005 controversial drama, Rage (2006), was awarded several times. In 2008, he directed a series of episodes of the television series Die Anwälte and KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst. Aladağ is the founder of the Young European Cinema initiative. The filmmaker was married, from 2002 to 2012, to Feo Aladağ, with whom he founded his own film production company with in 2006. Since 2002, Aladağ has lived in Berlin. Exhibitions 2010/2011: Die Anderen, Ausstellungsreihe Labor Berlin 3 in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Awards 1999: Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia for Film FFA-Kurz film prize for "Short Tiger 2000" 2001: Wilhelm Bitter Prize "Special recognition" by the German Academy of Performing Arts at the Baden TV Film Festival 2006 for the entire production team of Rage 2007: Golden Camera Award by Hörzu for Rage. 2007: Grimme-Preis for Rage 2007: GLAAD Media Award for Rage 2010: Deutscher Filmpreis for producing When We Leave Filmography (selection) 1991/1992: Freispiel – Acting, recording 1992: – Recording 1997: Hör dein Leben – Director, producer, scriptwriter, editor 1997: Zoran – Director, scriptwriter 1999: Bevor der Tag anbricht – Director, scriptwriter, editor 1999: Der Ausbruch – Director, scriptwriter, editor 1999: Enter – Producer 2001/2002: Elefantenherz – Director, scriptwriter 2003: Tatort – – Director, scriptwriter 2004: Die Türken kommen (Documentary film) 2005: Tatort – Erfroren – Director 2006: Rage – Director 2010: When We Leave – Producer 2010: Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt – Director (two episodes) 2010–2011: Der Kriminalist – Director (four episodes), scriptwriter (one episode) 2014: – Director 2015: – Director, scriptwriter 2015: Tatort – Schwerelos – Director 2016: Tatort