FATIH AKIN - Director & Screenwriter

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN ('Auf der anderen Seite') is Fatih Akin’s fifth fiction feat- ure and makes its world premiere in Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festi- val. 2005’s CROSSING THE BRIDGE – THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL presented the variety of music found in contemporary Turkey. 2003’s HEAD-ON ('Gegen die Wand') won the Berlinale Golden Bear, as well as Best Film at the German and European Film Awards. Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage. While studying Visual Communications at Hamburg’s College of Fine

Arts, he wrote and directed his first short in 1995: SENSIN – YOU’RE THE ONE! ('Sensin - Du bist es!'), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, followed by WEED ('Getuerkt', 1996). His first feature, SHORT SHARP SHOCK ('Kurz und Schmerzlos'), 1998), won Locarno’s Bronze Leopard and the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Director.

FATIH AKIN - Selective filmography

	2007	-	THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
	2005	-	CROSSING THE BRIDGE - THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL
	2003	-	HEAD-ON
	2002	-	SOLINO
	2001	-	WIR HABEN VERGESSEN ZURUECKZUKEHREN
	2000	-	IN JULY
	1998	-	SHORT SHARP SHOCK