Direction: Fatih Akin

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Birol Ünel · Sibel Kekilli · Catrin Striebeck · Güven Kiraç

Synopsis Head-On (2004) follows Cahit, a self-destructive Turkish-German man, and Sibel, a young woman desperate to escape her conservative family. They enter a sham marriage for mutual benefit—Cahit for money, Sibel for freedom. What begins as a transactional relationship evolves into...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Tuncel Kurtiz · Nursel Köse · Patrycia Ziolkowska · Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis The Edge of Heaven (2007) weaves interconnected stories of love, loss, and redemption across Germany and Turkey. A widowed Turkish man invites a sex worker to live with him, straining his relationship with his son. Meanwhile, a German student befriends...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Moritz Bleibtreu · Christiane Paul · Mehmet Kurtulus · Idil Üner

Synopsis Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Juli, a girl at the flea-market, wants to get known to Daniel and manages to sell him a Mayan ring...

Direction Fatih Akin

Synopsis A European musician and composer sets out to capture the musical diversity of Istanbul. A lover of experimenting with sound, Alexander Hacke (of the German avantgarde band Einstürzende Neubauten) roams the streets of Istanbul with his mobile recording studio and...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Moritz Bleibtreu · Barnaby Metschurat · Gigi Savoia · Antonella Attili

Synopsis In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their business emerges well and both...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Adam Bousdoukos · Moritz Bleibtreu · Birol Ünel · Anna Bederke

Synopsis In Soul Kitchen (2009), Zinos, a struggling restaurant owner in Hamburg, faces chaos when his girlfriend moves abroad and his unreliable brother gets out of prison. Desperate to save his failing eatery, he hires an eccentric chef whose unconventional dishes...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Emilio Sakraya · Kardo Razzazi · Karim Günes · Jonathan Sussner

Synopsis Capturing the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi.

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Diane Kruger · Numan Acar · Ulrich Brandhoff · Hanna Hilsdorf

Synopsis The explosion of a bomb kills Katja's family and she decides to get revenge.

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Jonas Dassler · Margarete Tiesel · Katja Studt · Martina Eitner-Acheampong

Synopsis A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Mehmet Kurtulus · Aleksandar Jovanovic · Adam Bousdoukos · Regula Grauwiller

Synopsis Hamburg, Germany. The small crime scene. Three friends: Gabriel from Turkey and just out of prison, Costa from Greece and together with Gabriel's sister, Bobby from Serbia and together with her best friend. Bobby wants to get more into organized...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Tristan Göbel · Anand Batbileg · Aniya Wendel · Justina Humpf

Synopsis Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Tahar Rahim · George Georgiou · Makram Khoury · Akin Gazi

Synopsis An epic drama about one man's journey through the Ottoman Empire after surviving the 1915 Armenian genocide. Deported from his home in Mardin, Nazareth (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet) moves onwards as a forced laborer. When he learns that his twin...

Direction Fatih Akin · Barbara Albert · Šarūnas Bartas · Andy Bausch

Cast Safia Aggoune · Abel Alves · Benzirar Baroudi · Ina-Marija Bartare

Synopsis The idea is simple: Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the respective countries that form the new European Community. Each director will give a personal vision of current or future life in this coming cultural...

Direction Fatih Akin · Yvan Attal · Randall Balsmeyer · Allen Hughes

Cast Bradley Cooper · Hayden Christensen · Andy García · Rachel Bilson

Synopsis New York, I Love You (2009) is an anthology film that weaves together multiple short love stories set in the vibrant heart of New York City. Each vignette explores the fleeting connections, unexpected romances, and poignant moments between diverse characters—from...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Cem Akin · Fatih Akin · Alper Akkoc · Nadire Ilter

Synopsis Fatih Akin repeated protagonist in his first shot in Turkey. Another story about a young Turkish-German, who, while staying at the Black Sea gets in trouble for making believe the bully in the area that can get good marijuana.

Direction Isabella Rossellini · Étienne Chatiliez · Pierre Jolivet · Rachid Bouchareb

Synopsis Statements today, solutions tomorrow… To bring about change, innovation, and collaboration, 30 directors from all the continents offer their own 2-minute take on the environment. From the Far North to Peru and from India to Burkina Faso, each has applied...

Direction Tom Tykwer · Fatih Akin · Wolfgang Becker · Sylke Enders

Cast Adriana Altaras · Bernhard Baron Boneberg · Josef Bierbichler · Bernd Birkhahn

Synopsis Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation is comprised of thirteen twelve-minute...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Jasper Billerbeck · Kian Köppke · Laura Tonke · Diane Kruger

Synopsis Amrum Island, spring 1945: In the waning days of WWII, 12-year-old Nanning fearlessly braves the treacherous seas for seal hunting, goes fishing at night, and tirelessly tends to the fields at the nearby Bendixen farm to help his mother feed...

Direction Fatih Akin

Synopsis Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Fatih Akin · Mustafa Enver Akin · Cem Akin · Adam Bousdoukos