At Home in the New Germany? Local Stories and Global Concerns in Yüksel Yavuz's <i>Aprilkinder</i> and <i>Kleine Freiheit</i>
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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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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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