Fatih Akin Articles

Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Oliver Maltman in Mike Leigh's Another Year (top); Samuel Maoz's Lebanon (middle); Moritz Bleibtreu in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen (bottom) Roman Polanski's THE GHOST WRITER, Jean Luc-Godard's FILM SOCIALISM: 2010 European Film Award Semi-Finalists 3 SEZÓNY V PEKLE 3 SEASONS IN HELL Czech Republic, 110 min. written and directed by Tomáš Mašin produced by Monika Kristl ANOTHER YEAR UK, 129 min. [...]

Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag's When We Leave (top); Anamaria Marinca, Kerry Fox in Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm (upper middle); Lars Eidinger, Birgit Minichmayr in Maren Ade's Everyone Else (lower middle); Moritz Bleibtreu (right) in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen (bottom) THE WHITE RIBBON Leads the 2010 Lola Race Other Best Picture Lola nominees are Feo Aladag's When We Leave, which earned a total of six Lola [...]

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 [...]

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 Click on the photos to enlarge them.