Nesrin Şamdereli

Nesrin Şamdereli
Born1979 (age 46–47)
Dortmund, Germany.
Years active1996–present

Nesrin Şamdereli (born 1979) is a Turkish-German screenwriter and film director of Kurdish origin. She was born in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. She worked as a screenwriter on films about Turkish life in Germany. In 2004, she made her directing debut with the short film Delicious. Her first full film was Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland.