At Home in the New Germany? Local Stories and Global Concerns in Yüksel Yavuz's <i>Aprilkinder</i> and <i>Kleine Freiheit</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper situates Yüksel Yavuz's films in the context of discussions about identity politics and filmmaking style in Turkish‐German cinema. Scholars have recognized a shift from films of the 1970s and 1980s depicting migrants—characterized by oppression, nostalgia, and binary models of identity—to a contemporary cinema that eschews notions of essential Otherness. Many argue that shifting models of identity necessitate new cinematic styles, in which humor plays a prominent role in dismantling discourses of victimization and positing the “pleasures of hybridity”. This essay shows that while Yavuz's films employ some aesthetic practices familiar from more social‐realist traditions—thereby highlighting the fundamental displeasures of ongoing civil inequalities—they nevertheless explore complex configurations of identities based not just on language or ethnicity but also on gender, sexuality, race and class. Yavuz's films thus comment on changing notions of home and belonging for both migrants and German nationals in ethnically‐mixed urban centers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".