Umut Dağ

Director

Festivals and Awards - Selection

| 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

Film / TV - Selection

2023 |
Vienna Blood | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | MR-Film, Endor Production, Red Arrow Studios International | ORF, ZDF | 3rd series
2023 |
Der Fährmann | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | in development; written by Paul Salisbury
2023 |
Polizeiruf Magdeburg "Widerfahrnis" | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | Filmpool Fiction | MDR
2021 |
Haus der Träume (IT: House of Promises) | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | X Filme Creative Pool | RTL+ | 6 episodes
2020 |
Die Macht der Kränkung (IT: Breaking Point) | miniseries | Director: Umut Dağ | Mona Film | ORF, ZDF | 6 episodes
2019 |
Vienna Blood | miniseries | Director: Umut Dağ | MR-Film, Endor Production, Red Arrow Studios International | ORF, ZDF, BBC | 2 episodes (2x90min)
2018 |
Tatort - "Das Monster von Kassel" | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | HR | HR
2018 |
Tatort - "Sonnenwende" | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | SWR | SWR
2018 |
Das Deutsche Kind | TV movie | Director: Umut Dağ | Banana Tree Film | NDR
2017 |
Endabrechnung | TV movie | Director: Umut Dağ | Allegro Film | ORF
2016 |
CopStories (5 episodes) | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | Gebhardt Productions | ORF
2015 |
Tatort Blum - "Rebecca" | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | SWR | SWR
2014 |
CopStories (5 episodes) | TV series | Director: Umut Dağ | Gebhardt Productions | ORF
2014 |
Risse im Beton (IT: Cracks in Concrete) | feature film | Director: Umut Dağ | WEGA-Film | Berlinale 2014: world premiere in the section 'Panorama Special'
2013 |
Kuma | feature film | Director: Umut Dağ | WEGA-Film | Filmladen | Berlinale
2012 |
Papa | short | Director: Umut Dağ | Filmakademie Wien | Competition Max-Ophüls Award 2011
2010 |
101010 - Ich bin Wien | music video | Director: Umut Dağ
2010 |
R | music video | Director: Umut Dağ
2010 |
Kick off | music video | Director: Umut Dağ
2010 |
Wer! | music video | Director: Umut Dağ
2009 |
Aus eigener Kraft | documentary | Director: Umut Dağ
2009 |
Wann | music video | Director: Umut Dağ
2008 |
Selam | music video | Director: Umut Dağ
2008 |
Todesnachrichten | short | Director: Umut Dağ

Theatre - Selection

Audio - Selection

Languages: German (mother tongue), Turkish (mother tongue), English (fluent)

Residence: Vienna

Place of birth: Austria

Nationality: Austrian

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