Nilgün Akıncı

Nilgün Akıncı is a director and screenwriter. She was co-creator of the series LAMIA for the ARD Mediathek, director of the Grimme Online Award-winning format Karakaya Talk, and director and screenwriter of the documentary Ramadan in a Day, which received recognition from the Saudi Film Award. Together with her co-founder Sarra Dziri, whom she met at Seriencamp, she is developing a fictional comedy-action series called 400 APM for a digitally native audience — centred on a ragtag underdog e-sports team in Cologne competing for the European E-Sports Cup. The project is supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. The debut short film of their production company Minara Studios, Durrani's Last Supper, had its premiere at Filmfest Bremen in April 2026.

Nilgün Akıncı is a co-founder of the Muslim German Film Association and advocates within the German filmmaking community for intersectional representation and equal opportunity for filmmakers from minority backgrounds. She also holds ba and ma degrees in intercultural communication cultural studies with a focus on Asia and Europe.