Head-On, or Gegen Die Wand (in German, in original), is the most praised movie by the German of Turkish origin director, Fatih Akın. This is also the most awarded of his movies. It won The Golden Bear in 2004 Berlinale, he, Akın, won Fipresci Prize, at the same festival, "Best Director", "Best Film" at European Film Awards, and many more. [source] This is a Turkish drama, even if it takes place in Germany, the most important country of Turkish Diaspora. The descendants of Asian … [Read more...]
Soul Kitchen
I wanted from the beginnings of this blog to feature one of the most talented directors alive, who happens to be Turk. Fatih Akın is a Hamburger Turk, born in 1973. I have seen and enjoyed almost all his movies, even his fragments in the collective humanitarian releases, like New York, I Love You, or Visions of Europe. Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German movie, directed by Akin (you see, I started to use his European surname spelling, with "i" instead of the Turkish "ı"). The movie is also written by … [Read more...]