Birol Ünel Articles

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen is a comedy set at a Hamburg restaurant inhabited by a disparate group of Hamburgese. At IFC, Stephen Saito calls Soul Kitchen "a lark, but an enjoyable one. The film sees the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven doing schtick for the first time — not [...]

Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Head-On The German drama Gegen die Wand / Head-On was selected as Best European Film at the 2004 European Film Awards ceremony held in Barcelona. Directed by Fatih Akin, Head-On tells the story of a young Turkish-German woman (Sibel Kekilli) who marries an older Turkish man (Birol Ünel) in order to escape from her strict Muslim family. Earlier this year, Head-On [...]