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Director Fatih Akin was on summer vacation reading the biography of German rap star Xatar when he read the opening line, which said, “the first memories of my life are the memories of a prison.” “When ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An established German/Turkish auteur based in Hamburg, Fatih Akin has always subverted the conventions of narrative storytelling, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I never forgot,” says Akin, speaking on a joint Zoom with Kruger, he in Hamburg, she in L.A. Five years later, Akin sent Kruger ...
If you stay in this business long enough, eventually you get to discover someone. That's the feeling I had last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, watching "The Edge of Heaven," by the ...
Prize-winning German-Turkish director Fatih Akin is turning to comedy in his latest film, "Soul Kitchen," which screened at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. By The Associated Press VENICE — Prize ...
Director Fatih Akin has canceled a trip to Switzerland to promote his new film, "Soul Kitchen" in protest of the recent Swiss referendum vote banning the construction of minarets in the country. By ...
Set on a picturesque windswept German island in the waning days of World War II, the Cannes selection walks an impossible morality line with delicate beauty. Co-written by octogenarian German ...
Fatih Akın. Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival. Director, screenwriter and producer Fatih Akin passed through the Red Sea film festival Monday where he ...
The new film by Turkish German director Fatih Akin veers onto a shattered street and ventures into a world of neo-Nazis, immigration, suspicion and disconcerting questions over whether a woman can ...
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Filmmaker Fatih Akin is always moving in and out of cultures — and being caught between them. His parents immigrated from Turkey to Germany in the 1960s, as part of the "guest worker" program. Now, ...