Yilmaz Arslan was born in Kazanll, Turkey, but has lived in Germany since 1975. In 1992, at the age of just 24, he made his debut film, Langer Gang, for which he subsequently won many awards. By his second film in 1999, Yara (Filmclub Award at the 1999 Max Ophuls Festival), he was simultaneously carrying out the roles of director, writer and producer. The same is true of his 2005 film Fratricide (Silver Leopard at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival) coproduced by Tarantula and sold in 26 countries. Besides his activities of producer, screenwriter and director, he teaches cinema at Goethe Institut network in Europe and he’s part of the selection committee of the Medien-und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Wurttemberg (MFG). In 2016, he created a new production company: Film Maxma.