AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Research Stipend in the Visual Arts Recipient, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2021 Achtung Berlin Film Festival - Best Short Film Award
2021 Online Artist Residency, un/mute 10002, Undercurrent NYC / Goethe-Institut NYC
2020 Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen - 3sat Promotional Award
2018 Sarajevo Talents Programme, Sarajevo Film Festival
SCREENINGS & SELECTIONS
OTHER THAN THAT, I’M FINE ⎮short fiction, 14′, 2020, Germany-Turkey
2020 World Premiere Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen - 3sat Promotional Award
2023 Berlinale Forum Special: Fiktionsbescheinigung
German Film Office, Short films by Eren Aksu, Goethe Institute New York
2021 Achtung Berlin Film Festival - Best Short Film Award
3sat German TV Premiere
Istanbul Modern Museum: FUTURE IS SHORT
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Kyiv Short Film Festival
Message To Man Int. Film Festival, St. Petersburg
PASO Fest for Film & Digital Media: Goethe-Institut Special, Ankara
Short Film Programme ‘’Zwischen Welten’’, Wittenberge, Stadtsalon Safari
2020 AG Kurzfilm German Shorts Cannes DVD Edition
ROUTINES ⎮ short documentary, 18′, 2018, Germany
2018 World Premiere Int. Oberhausen Short Film Festival
2019 AFSAD Short Film Festival, Goethe-Institut Ankara Special Screening
2018 Exground Film Festival, Wiesbaden
AG Kurzfilm German Shorts Cannes DVD Edition
COSMORAMA ⎮ short fiction, 8′, 2016, Germany-Turkey
2016 World Premiere Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2023 German Film Office, Short films by Eren Aksu, Goethe Institute New York
2017 Int. Dresden Short Film Festival
Renconres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2016-2017 (Video Library)
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (Short Film Market)
Short Waves Festival Best of Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Tour
Weimar Back Up Film Festival
Transacciones Informales (Espacio KB Bogotá), Bogotá
Pluk de Nacht Open Air Film Festival
Oberhausen on Tour 2017: Best of Deutscher Wettbewerb (Moviemento City Kino, Linz)
2016 Sarajevo Film Festival
Split Short Film Festival
Lisbon Architecture Film Festival
Akbank Short Film Festival
Int. Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 STILL ⎮ (with poet Sheila Maldonado), carousel with 62 slides and printed text
un/mute, group exhibition, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City
JURY EXPERIENCE
2023 Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, German Short Film Competition
2023 Achtung Berlin Film Festival, Short & Medium Length Film Competitions
2021 Interfilm Short Film Festival, German Short Film Competition
ARTIST TALKS & SCREENINGS
2023 German Film Office, Short films by Eren Aksu, Goethe Institute New York
2021 Chromatic Wednesdays, Film screening and artist talk with Eren Aksu, Apartment Project Berlin
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 Arts & Media (M.A.) - Berlin University of the Arts
2013 - 2018 Arts & Media (B.A.) - Berlin University of the Arts
2009 - 2013 Film & TV (B.A.) - Istanbul Bilgi University