Film on German Turks tapped for Oscars

Turkish-German actress Sibel Kekilli's "When We Leave" has been chosen as Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, The Wall Street Journal reported late last week. Alongside an interview with the 30-year-old actress, the paper said, "With the film 'When We Leave' due to open in the US later this month and its nomination as Germany's entry for the Oscars, Ms. Kekilli will once again become an ambassador of Germany's Turkish culture, this time to American audiences." Kekilli has won Best Actress honors from the German Film Academy and Tribeca Film Festival for her role in the film, which focuses on Germany's expatriate Turkish community.