Fatih Akın
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Fatih Akın (August 25, 1973 in Hamburg, Germany) is a Turkish-German film director.
In 1994 he attended Hamburg's College of Fine Arts to study visual communications and graduated in 2000.
Akın made his debut as director of a full length film already in 1998 with Kurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock), which brought him the award "Bronze Leopard" at Locarno, Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for the best young director in Munich the same year. Since then he has directed features like Im Juli (In July) in 2000, Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren (We forgot to go back) in 2001 and Solino in 2002. His fourth work, Gegen die Wand (Head-On) with Sibel Kekilli as main actress was a great success in 2004 and received several prizes, among them the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and the "Best Film" and the "Audience Award" at the 2004 European Film Awards.
In 2005 he directed a documentary about Istanbul music scene, named Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, which includes musicians from Ceza to Sezen Aksu to Aynur and Brenna MacCrimmon. It is narrated by a member of a German experimental band Einstürzende Neubauten, Alexander Hacke, who also produced music for Head-On.
[edit] Filmography
- 1995 Sensin... You're the One! (German title: Sensin - Du bist es!)
- 1996 Weed (German title: Getürkt)
- 1998 Short Sharp Shock (German title: Kurz und schmerzlos)
- 2000 Im Juli
- 2001 Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren
- 2002 Solino
- 2004 Head-On (German title: Gegen die Wand, Turkish title: Duvara karsi)
- 2004 Visions of Europe (segment "Die bösen alten Lieder", German title: Europäische Visionen)
- 2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
- 2006 Soul Kitchen
[edit] External links
- Fatih Akin at the Internet Movie Database
- Rocking Istanbul A talk with Daniel Bax on the film "Crossing the Bridge", tour guides and Vikings, music divas and the responsibilities of critical acclaim at signandsight.com
