| year |
occupation |
country |
1982 |
Hamze Bytyçi was born in Prizren, Kosovo. |
|
2003 |
His interest in film goes back to his acting training. He acted in
the TV series “Tatort: Leyla” and in the documentary “Rosas
Höllenfahrt“ by Rosa von Praunheim in 2009. |
|
2005 |
He graduated from acting school in Freiburg, after a one-year theatre
engagement in Zurich. |
|
2006 |
He directed his first student film (Gyrbet – Where Is Home?). |
|
2007 |
since 2007 - He moved to Berlin, where he has worked as an actor, director,
theatre and media pedagogue among others at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Theater
im Delphi, Maxim Gorki Theater or in SAVVY Contemporary. |
|
2012 |
He founded the multi-award-winning transcultural association RomaTrial
which is active in the fields of art and culture, cultural and political
education for young people and adults as well as advocacy and political
work. |
|
2012 |
He directed the documentary “Kiez-Monatsschau Vol. XIII”.
In 2012, he was founding member of the International Romani Film
Commission, a network of Romani filmmakers which existed until 2014. |
|
2017 |
His short documentary “JOŽKA“ was selected for the grant “Oppose
Othering” in the frame of the goEast Film Festival. In 2017, he
founded the International Festival of Romani Film AKE DIKHEA?, which he has
directed ever since. |
|
2018 |
2018 & 2021 - He was co-curator of the 1st and 2nd Roma Biennale, the
self-organised biennale by and with Roma artists. |
|
2019 |
Between 2019 and 2022, he directed nine animated short films about
survivors and victims of the genocide of the Sinti and Roma, which
complement the Memorial to the Murdered Sinti and Roma of Europe in the
city centre of Berlin. |
|
2022 |
Since September 2022 - He is Artistic director of the “Grüner Salon”
at the Volksbühne Theatre in Berlin. |
|
2022 |
Since October 2022 - He studies the Master Programme “Art in Context”
at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He is a board member of
the neue deutsche Organisationen and a member of the CPPD – The Coalition
of Pluralistic Public Discourse. |
|
2022 |
In 2022, Hamze Bytyçi co-founded the AVAZYA Film Professional Networking
supporting Romani and BIPoC filmmakers. |
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