# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-mettelsiefen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:38.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-mettelsiefen"
name: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
slug: "marcel-mettelsiefen"
description: "Marcel Mettelsiefen is a German documentary filmmaker. He has won six BAFTA awards and four Emmy awards, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2017 for Watani: My Homeland in the category of Best Documentary Short. In 2023, he won two BAFTA's for Children of the Taliban. In the same year, In Her Hands, was nominated for three Emmy awards, and won the award for Outstanding Politics & Government Documentary."
tagline: "German documentary filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hanns_joachim_friedrichs_preis_2013_6.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.141973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4984327/"
    handle:    "nm4984327"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Mettelsiefen"
    title: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مارسيل ميتيلسيفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Mettelsiefen"
    title: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Mettelsiefen"
    title: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Mettelsiefen"
    title: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Mettelsiefen"
    title: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20015772"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1716167"
    title: "Marcel Mettelsiefen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump