Elif Demiroğlu
Biography
Elif Demiroğlu is a Turkish-German director, writer, and producer based in Berlin.
After a decade in architecture and urban design, she pivoted to filmmaking to explore class, migration, and gender through dark comedy and emotional precision. Her debut short film Traces (2025) — a feminist drama about invisible labor and quiet rebellion — is currently on the festival circuit, officially selected for Cine Tejo International Short Film Festival...
Elif Demiroğlu is a Turkish-German director, writer, and producer based in Berlin.
After a decade in architecture and urban design, she pivoted to filmmaking to explore class, migration, and gender through dark comedy and emotional precision. Her debut short film Traces (2025) — a feminist drama about invisible labor and quiet rebellion — is currently on the festival circuit, officially selected for Cine Tejo International Short Film Festival in Portugal. Her second short, Cherry-Flavored Death, a surreal dark comedy, is in post-production. She is also developing the Berlin-based TV series The Goodbye Girls, which was selected as one of six projects for the Talentpitch at the Creators Conference during the Munich Film Festival. Her upcoming third short film, Over and Under, was recently selected for the Writers’ Lab at the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC).
