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Poet, journalist, filmmaker, and innkeeper
Country of origin

Ali Biçer (*1960), an Alevi born in a Kurdish village in Central Anatolia, is a writer, journalist, filmmaker and host. Since the age of 15 he has campaigned for democracy and freedom and has spent 15 years in Turkish prisons. As a man condemned to death he experienced what life feels like in its fragility, finiteness and limitedness to a few square meters. He has lived in Switzerland since his discharge from prison. So far, he has published several volumes of poetry, stories and plays in Turkish. In Bern he runs a restaurant at the cross-cultural meeting point Länggasse.

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Current issues

At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".

Events

11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
26.04.2023
Budapest
In Budapest at the end of April 2023 INTERFILM is organising a seminar on the history of Hungarian film and the current situation in Central and Eastern Europe.

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