Bülent Akinci

Bülent Akinci (b. 1968, Ankara, Turkey) has lived in Germany since 1970. He studied philosophy, theatre, film and music at Berlin University and in 1996 became a student at the Berlin Film and Television Academy. He made a name for himself with his short documentaries and dramas, such as Das vom Leben übrig bleibt (1996), A Long Day's Journey into Night (Eines langen Augenblickes Reise in die Nacht,1997), Kälte (1998), Die letzten Bilder (1999), Broken (2000) and especially Eine kleine Gesichte (2001) with Gudrun Landgrebe and Burghart Klaussner, which was screened at the Max Ophüls FilmFest in Saarbrücken, and at the short film reviews in Dresden, Lodz and Münster in 2001. Running on Empty is the director's first feature film. It was screened at the Berlin IFF in 2006, where it won the main award of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.

MFF Karlovy Vary