MIPTV Cannes "Coup de Coeur" for DAS HAUS DER TRÄUME
Romy Award for 'Best Directing Television' for DIE MACHT DER KRÄNKUNG
International Romy Award 2020 for VIENNA BLOOD
Nomination for the Grimme Award 2019 for DAS DEUTSCHE KIND
Metropolis Director Award 2018: “Best TV movie direction” for DAS DEUTSCHE KIND
Romy Award: nom. 'Best Director TV movie' for ENDABRECHNUNG
ABU-Prize 2016: won 'Best TV Drama' for TATORT "Rebecca"
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2014: won 'Best Feature Film' for RISSE IM BETON
Diagonale 2013: won 'Thomas-Pluch-Drehbuchpreis' for KUMA (shared with writer Petra Ladinigg)
Filmfestival Del Cinema Europeo 2012: won 'Audience Award' and 'Best Feature Film' for KUMA
SKIP City Tokio Filmfestival 2012: won 'Best Feature Film' for KUMA
Pristine Filmfestival 2012: won 'Best Director' for KUMA
won 'First Steps Award 2011' for PAPA
Diagonale 2011: won 'Best Austrian Short' for PAPA
Winer: Golden UTV Award 2009 and UTV Audience Award 2009 'Best Music Video' for SELAM
Vienna Independent Shortfilm Festival 2008: won 'Audience Award' for TODESNACHRICHTEN
Metropolis Director Award 2018: "Best TV movie direction" for "Das deutsche Kind"
KUMA: Berlinale 2012: opening film of the 'Panorama' section
KUMA: 21st Philadelphia Film Festival: Honorable Mention for Best Actress - Begüm Akkaya; 20th Hamptons International Film Festival: Golden Starfish Award Narrative Feature; Russian Guild of Film Critics: Bronze Taiga Award for Best Actors Ensemble/Special Diploma
Languages: German (mother tongue), Turkish (mother tongue), English (fluent)
Residence: Vienna
Place of birth: Austria
Nationality: Austrian