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Spotlight on Fatih Akin
Celebrating the works of acclaimed director Fatih Akin, featuring three past hits and his latest film Amrum.
Spotlight on Fatih Akin
Celebrating the works of acclaimed director Fatih Akin, featuring three past hits and his latest film Amrum.
Born in 1973 in Hamburg, Fatih Akin is a German-Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer. A graduate of the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, he became known as a filmmaker in 1998 with his first feature, Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos). His fourth film, Head-On (Gegen die Wand), was a major success in 2004 and was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. His other films have also received many accolades, including Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival for The Edge of Heaven (2007), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for In the Fade (2017). Akin’s latest film, Amrum, had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Centrepiece
Amrum
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The celebrated new film from multi award-winning director Fatih Akin is a moving and deeply poignant drama about a 12-year-old boy who, in the shadow of the fading German regime, discovers the true enemy is far closer than he imagined.
Australian Premiere
Goodbye Berlin
Tschick
A warm, offbeat road film about two teenage outsiders whose impulsive summer journey becomes a funny, tender portrait of friendship, freedom, loneliness, and youthful self-discovery across a landscape of comic detours, fleeting encounters, and possibility.
Head-On
Gegen die Wand
A formative drama by Fatih Akin following Cahit and Sibel, two troubled strangers drawn together through a marriage of convenience. Their arrangement gradually becomes a volatile relationship, as the film explores love, identity, freedom, and the emotional strain of living between cultures.
The Edge of Heaven
Auf der anderen Seite
Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, this is a quietly powerful drama in which intersecting lives are reshaped by loss, migration, and chance encounters, unfolding into a moving story of grief, guilt, responsibility, and reconciliation.