A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Фатіх Акін
파티 아킨
파티흐 아킨
Birthplace:
Hamburg, Deutschland
Born:
August 25, 1973
Fatih Akın (born 25 August 1973) is a Turkish-German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent. He has won numerous awards for his films, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film Head-On (2004), Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival for his film The Edge of Heaven (2007), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his film In the Fade (2017). Akin was born in Hamburg to Turkish parents. He has one brother, Cem Akin, who works as an actor. He attended the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. Akin has been married to German-Mexican actress Monique Obermüller since 2004. The couple live in Hamburg-Altona, close to where he was raised. They have two children. Akin made his debut as director of a full-length film as early as 1998 with Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos), which brought him the "Bronze Leopard" award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director in Munich the same year. Since then he has directed feature films such as In July (Im Juli) in 2000, We forgot to go back (Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren) in 2001 and Solino in 2002. His fourth film, Head-On (Gegen die Wand), starring Sibel Kekilli, was a major 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 the Istanbul music scene, Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, which includes musicians such as Ceza, Sezen Aksu, Aynur Doğan 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. In 2007, Akin's The Edge of Heaven, a German-Turkish cross-cultural tale of loss, mourning and forgiveness, won the prize for Best Screenplay at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007. On 24 October 2007 the same film was awarded the first edition of the LUX prize for European cinema by the European Parliament. About the comedy Soul Kitchen (2009) he has said he chose this more light-hearted film because he needed a break after making the "tough" films Head-On and The Edge of Heaven before making his next planned film The Devil. "But", he says, "now I feel ready to finish the trilogy". In 2012, his documentary film Polluting Paradise was screened in the Special Screenings section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. His 2014 film The Cut has been selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. In 2017, his film In the Fade was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes that year, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award. The film was subsequently selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. In the Fade won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fatih Akin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Author:
2004 Head-On
Co-Producer:
2004 Head-On
2009 Before Your Eyes
2021 Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Director:
1995 Sensin – Du bist es
1997 Getürkt
1998 Short Sharp Shock
2000 In July
2001 We Have Forgotten to Return Home
2002 Solino
2004 Head-On
2004 Visions of Europe
2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2007 Altyapi
2007 The Edge of Heaven
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 Before Your Eyes
2009 Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009 Soul Kitchen
2012 Polluting Paradise
2014 The Cut
2016 Goodbye Berlin
2017 In the Fade
2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 The Golden Glove
2021 Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
2022 Rhinegold
???? Amrum
Executive Producer:
1995 Sensin – Du bist es
1997 Getürkt
1998 Short Sharp Shock
2000 In July
2001 We Have Forgotten to Return Home
2002 Solino
2004 Head-On
2004 Visions of Europe
2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2007 Altyapi
2007 The Edge of Heaven
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 Before Your Eyes
2009 Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009 Soul Kitchen
2011 UFO in Her Eyes
2012 Polluting Paradise
2014 The Cut
2016 Goodbye Berlin
2017 In the Fade
2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 The Golden Glove
2021 Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
2022 Rhinegold
???? Amrum
Producer:
1995 Sensin – Du bist es
1997 Getürkt
1998 Short Sharp Shock
2000 In July
2001 We Have Forgotten to Return Home
2002 Solino
2004 Head-On
2004 Visions of Europe
2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2006 Takva: A Man's Fear of God
2007 Altyapi
2007 The Edge of Heaven
2008 Chiko
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 Before Your Eyes
2009 Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009 Soul Kitchen
2011 UFO in Her Eyes
2012 Polluting Paradise
2014 The Cut
2016 Goodbye Berlin
2017 In the Fade
2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 The Golden Glove
2021 Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
2022 Rhinegold
???? Amrum
Screenplay:
1995 Sensin – Du bist es
1997 Getürkt
1998 Short Sharp Shock
2000 In July
2001 We Have Forgotten to Return Home
2002 Solino
2004 Head-On
2004 Kebab Connection
2004 Visions of Europe
2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2006 Takva: A Man's Fear of God
2007 Altyapi
2007 The Edge of Heaven
2008 Chiko
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 Before Your Eyes
2009 Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009 Soul Kitchen
2011 UFO in Her Eyes
2012 Polluting Paradise
2014 The Cut
2016 Goodbye Berlin
2017 In the Fade
2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 The Golden Glove
2021 Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
2022 Rhinegold
???? Amrum
Writer:
1995 Sensin – Du bist es
1997 Getürkt
1998 Short Sharp Shock
2000 In July
2001 We Have Forgotten to Return Home
2002 Solino
2004 Head-On
2004 Kebab Connection
2004 Visions of Europe
2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2006 Takva: A Man's Fear of God
2007 Altyapi
2007 The Edge of Heaven
2008 Chiko
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 Before Your Eyes
2009 Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009 Soul Kitchen
2011 UFO in Her Eyes
2012 Polluting Paradise
2014 The Cut
2016 Goodbye Berlin
2017 In the Fade
2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 The Golden Glove
2021 Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
2022 Rhinegold
???? Amrum
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