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Aslı Özge was born 1975 in Istanbul, Turkey, where she graduated from the Faculty of Communication in 1995. She then studied at the Film & TV Academy of Marmara University in Istanbul until 1999. After graduating, she directed the award-winning short film "Capital C" (2000).
Since 2000, Özge has divided her time between Berlin and Istanbul. She made her feature film debut in 2003 with the German-Turkish production "Ein bisschen April", commissioned by ZDF, which tells the interconnected stories of five apartment seekers in Berlin in an improvised style. Her documentary "Hesperos'un Çömezleri", about the cultural history of the Turkish hairdressing tradition, was shown in the documentary competition of the Antalya Film Festival in 2005.
Özge's feature film "Men on the Bridge" (DE/TR/NL 2009) follows the lives of three people in Istanbul whose paths cross on the Bosphorus Bridge. The film was screened at numerous festivals and won the award for Best Film (National Competition) at the Istanbul Film Festival. Her drama "Hayatboyu - Lifelong", also set in Istanbul, was screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale and Özge received the Best Director Award at the Istanbul Film Festival.
Her next feature film, "Auf einmal" ("All of a Sudden", DE/NL 2016), was also shown in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. The drama is about a young man in the Sauerland region of Germany who faces suspicion and prejudice after a young woman dies in his apartment. The film received an Honorable Mention from the Label Europe Cinemas initiative at the Berlinale and won the FIPRESCI Award at the Istanbul Film Festival.
In 2019, Aslı Özge directed the six-part German-Belgian crime series "Dunkelstadt," which aired in 2020. The following year, Özge began production on the ensemble drama "Black Box," which centers on the residents of a Berlin apartment building who face an extraordinary situation when the police cordon off the building. The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in the summer of 2023, followed by a German theatrical release.