Eren Aksu
Eren Aksu

BIOGRAPHY

Eren Aksu was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film & TV from Istanbul Bilgi University, he moved to Berlin, where he currently lives and works. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Arts & Media from Universität der Künste Berlin.

Aksu's film projects often explore personal stories through hybrid and experimental forms. His film "Cosmorama" premiered at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 2016 and was subsequently screened at several international film festivals, including the Sarajevo Film Festival's short film competition and the Dresden Short Film Festival's competition. "Routines" premiered at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 2018 and was also screened at the Exground Film Festival. His latest film, "Other Than That, I'm Fine," won the 3sat promotional award at the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the best short film award at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival.

Contact
r n a k s u [at] gmail.com

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