Cihan Inan

Birthday: 1969-01-20

Cihan Inan was born in Switzerland as the third of five children of Turkish immigrants. While studying Philosophy and German literature at the University of Bern, he worked as a projectionist in cine ...Show More

Cihan Inan was born in Switzerland as the third of five children of Turkish immigrants. While studying Philosophy and German literature at the University of Bern, he worked as a projectionist in cinemas in the capital city of Switzerland and also as a film and theater critic. After university, he worked for two years as an assistant director at the Theater Freiburg in Germany before delivering his first directorial work at the Theater Freiburg in 1999. Since then, he has regularly directed plays throughout the German-speaking world to the present day. In 2002 he decided to direct the film adaptation of Nick Cave's debut novel "And the Ass Saw the Angel". This project was realized in 2003 at his own expense and with a lot of private funds in Turkey. In the same year the filmed material was stolen at the train station in Freiburg, Germany and remained lost until today. After this setback, he started working on the script for "180°", which became his first visible feature film. "180°" was released in cinemas on September 2010 and won several international awards at festivals around the world for best film, best director, best screenplay, best music, best supporting actress. He was also as consultant for different movie such as "KÖPEK" by Esen Isik or documentaries such as "ABOVE AND BELOW" by Nicolas Steiner. In September 2018, his second feature film "ZONE ROUGE" was released in Swiss cinemas - a reunion story set in a single location, a kind of "huis close" of memories. He has been artistic director for 5 Years (2017 - 2022) at the State Theater in the Swiss capital Bern. After his successful time as artistic director he decided to return to film. He wrote the screenplay for the film noir psychodrama "RETOUR" and then began filming in Italy. The global corona pandemic forced him to shoot this violent mother-daughter Huis-Clos story based on the ancient story "Elektra" with a small crew and cast in a remote country house. He is preparing different international projects. He lives with his wife and son near Zurich. Hide