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Fatih Akin’s SOUL KITCHEN Photos

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 as odd a transition as one might think from his previous dramas, which have in common a deeply felt human touch and sense of interconnection."
"As far as European comedies go," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE, "it’s fairly by the numbers, assembling a motley crew of emphatically crazy characters [...]

Venice 2009: Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, George A. Romero

Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Dorka Gryllus, Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu at the Soul Kitchen premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Alberto Petrolini, Caterina Varzi, Tinto Brass, Vincenzo Varzi at the Hotel Courbet photocall

George A. Romero
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film at UCLA

"What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories." That’s filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, referring to Persepolis, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
(Top photo: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron. Right photo: Of Love and Eggs by Garin Nugroho.)
Whether or not following on Satrapi’s lead, this weekend the UCLA Film & Television Archive is launching the film series "Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film," which runs Friday, May 9 — Monday, June 9. "Visualizing the Sacred" will show a side of Islam and Muslims apart from terrorist attacks, Mohammed cartoons, or hysterical short films created by far-right Dutch politicians.
"The films in this [...]

Lola Awards 2008 Photos

Photos: © Roman Babirad, Michael Tinnefeld / Deutsche Filmakademie
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Fatih Akin, Nina Hoss, Elmar Wepper, Barbara Schoneberger

Fatih Akin, Hannah Schygulla

Senta Berger, Gunter Rohrbach

Til Schweiger, Jasmin Tabatabai

Annelore Eisner, Nico Hofmann

Doris Dorrie

Fatih Akin
 

Bavarian Film Awards 2008

2008 Bavarian Film Awards
 

 

Best Producer
Olga Film – Molly von Fürstenberg and Harald Kügler for Kirschblüten – Hanami / Cherry Blossoms
Best Direction
Fatih Akin for Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven
Best New Director and Screenwriter
Ralf Westhoff for Shoppen
Best Actor
Elmar Wepper for Cherry Blossoms
Best Actress
Martina Gedeck for Meine schöne Bescherung / Messy Christmas
Best New Performers
Elinor Lüdde for Meer is nich and Petra Schmidt-Schaller for Ein fliehendes Pferd
Best Documentary
Pepe Danquart for Am Limit
Best Cinematography
Benedict Neuenfels for Liebesleben
Best New Producers
Hans-Christian Schmid and Britta Knöller for Am Ende kommen Touristen / And Along Come Tourists
Best Youth Film
Detlev Buck for Hände weg von Mississippi
Best Score
Niki Reiser for Liebesleben
Special Award
Veit Helmer for Absurdistan
Honorary Award
Michael Ballhaus
Audience Award
Lissi und [...]

2006 National Society of Film Critics Award Winners

Capote, which follows flamboyant writer Truman Capote while he was working on In Cold Blood, was chosen the best film of 2005 by the National Society of Film Critics. As most elsewhere this year, smaller American films and non-American productions took center stage in the voting.
Among the other winners were best director David Cronenberg for the social critique A History of Violence, which failed to win the best film award by one single vote, after six rounds of voting; best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (above, with Catherine Keener) for Capote; best actress Reese Witherspoon for playing another real-life character, June Carter, in Walk the Line; and best foreign film Gegen die Wand / Head-On, Fatih Akin’s drama [...]

2004 European Film Awards Winners

The German drama Gegen die Wand / Head-On was picked as the best European film at the 2004 European Film Awards ceremony in Barcelona.
Directed by Fatih Akin, voted the year’s best European director, 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 her strict Muslim family. Earlier this year, Head-On won both the Golden Bear and the International Critics’ FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Additionally, the film has won five German Film Academy awards: Best film, best actor, best actress, best director, and best cinematography (Rainer Klausmann).

Spaniard Javier Bardem (above, with Belén Rueda) was chosen the year’s best actor for his [...]

European Film Awards 2004

2004 European Film Awards
2004 European Film Awards Winners: Forum Convention Center in Barcelona on Dec. 11, 2004
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Alberto Estevez / EFE
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EUROPEAN FILM
ETT HÅL I MITT HJÄRTA (A Hole In My Heart), Sweden / Denmark
directed by Lukas Moodysson
produced by Memfis Film, Zentropa, Film I Väst, SVT, Nordic Film- & TV Fund
* GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On), Germany
directed by Fatih Akin
produced by Wüste Filmproduktion / Corazon International / NDR / ARTE
La Mala educación / Bad Education, Spain
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U.
Les Choristes / The Chorus, France / Switzerland
directed by Christophe Barratier
produced by Galatée Films / Pathé Renn Production / France 2 Cinéma / Novo Arturo [...]

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