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he was born
Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage. -
attended to the college
He began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. His collaboration with Wueste Film also dates from this time -
his first short film
In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, "Sensin - You're The One!" ("Sensin - Du Bist Es!"), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival -
his second film
His second short film, "Weed" ("Getuerkt", 1996), received several national and international festival prizes. -
his first full length film
His first full length feature film, "Short Sharp Shock" ("Kurz Und Schmerzlos", 1998) won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Director) in 1998. -
Im juli and we forgot to go back
he has directed features like Im Juli (In July) in 2000, Wir haben vergessen zurckzukehren (We forgot to go back) in 2001 -
head on his fourth film
His fourth work, Gegen die Wand (Head-On) with Sibel Kekilli as main actress was a great 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 Head-On, two different cultures are presented, the conservative Muslim and Turkish view of Sibel's family, and Sibel's open ideas about sex. Cahit is presented to be somewhat a mixture of these two ideas and cultures -
he got married
Fatih Akn has been married since 2004 to German-Mexican actress Monique Obermller and currently lives in Hamburg, Germany. and he has a son -
his first documantary
In 2005 he directed a documentary about Istanbul music scene, named Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, which includes musicians from Ceza to Sezen Aksu to Aynur and Brenna MacCrimmon. It is narrated by a member of a German experimental band Einstrzende Neubauten, Alexander Hacke, who also produced music for Head-On. -
he was investigated
In 2006, he was investigated by German police after wearing a T-Shirt with a Nazi swastika, intending to equate the George W. Bush administration with the Third Reich -
The Edge of Heaven
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 Annual 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[4] On October 24, 2007, the same film was awarded the first edition of the LUX prize for European cinema by the European Parliament
