ZFF Masters: Fatih Akin

Ten years ago, Faith Akin celebrated his powerful break-through with GEGEN DIE WAND (2004): The film was honoured with multiple awards, among them the Golden Bear and the European Film Award, but it is only the center of Akin's throughout brilliant cineastic work. Already his first feature film KURZ UND SCHMERZLOS gained wide recognition. Love and homeland, Hamburg and Istanbul, great hopes and crazy ideas – these are the themes of almost all his films. And Akin is well versed in balancing sternness and gaiety, darkness and light. Besides his work as a director, he also successfully participates in the German film scene as scriptwriter, producer, and actor. After GEGEN DIE WAND and AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (2007), Akin finally presents the last part of his "Love, Death, and the Devil" trilogy: THE CUT will be screened at this year's Zurich Film Festival.