THOMAS BÜSCH
Filmmaker and Secretary General, diyalog
Thomas Büsch is filmmaker and curator from Germany based in Istanbul; together with Sabine Küper-Büsch he initiated the Mahalla festival in the name of the Istanbul based association diyalog. The objectives of the association are the promotion of exchange and cooperation in order to carry out an intercultural understanding to strengthen as well as above all a cultural dialogue between communities.

In 2014/2015 they established for diyalog and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Istanbul an extensive program under the title Searching Traces with the aim to give creative people with and without migration background the opportunity to look back on and reappraise their experiences in order to find new perspectives in a changing surrounding or in the hosting countries.