Soleen YUSEF
director
1 film
1 events
1 events
Biography
Soleen Yusef (1987, Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan) fled to Germany with her family at the age of nine. After training as a singer and actress, she studied directing at the Baden-Wurttemberg Film Academy. Her student film Trattoria premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2012, the year in which she also won the Germany Scholarship. Her work includes productions for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, and in 2024 she was selected as a talent for Face to Face with German Films. Winners is her first children’s film
Filmography
- Sieger Sein 2024
- Sam - A Saxon (TV series) 2023
- Deutschland 89 (TV series) 2020