Züli Aladağ

After a short theatre study in Munich, he completed a six-month internship at Roland Emmerich's Moon 44 in Stuttgart.

Later, he worked as an editor and co-director for documentary TV series.

He graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in the summer of 1999.

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.