Fatih Akın holding the "Golden Bear"

Fatih Akın (August 25, 1973 in Hamburg) is a German film director of Turkish descent. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

In 1994 he attended Hamburg's College of Fine Arts to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic. ... Communication studies (or Communications) is the academic discipline which studies communication; subdisciplines include animal communication, theories of communication, group communication, information theory, intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, marketing, organizational communication, propaganda, public affairs, public relations, speech communications, and telecommunications. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Akın made his debut as director of a full length film already in 1998 with Kurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock), which brought him the award "Bronze Leopard" at Locarno, Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for the best young director in Munich the same year. Since then he directed features like Im Juli (In July) in 2000, Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren (We forgot to go back) in 2001 and Solino in 2002. 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. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Locarno is a city located on Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ... Head On is also a 1998 film; see Head On (film). ... Sibel Kekilli Sibel Kekilli (former stage name Dilara) , born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany, is a German actress of Turkish descent. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the World. ...

External link

• Fatih Akin at the Internet Movie Database

In 2005 he directed a documentary, named Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul. The documentary was about Istanbul music scene and was narrated by a member of german industrial rock band Einstürzende Neubauten Alexander Hacke. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ... Einstürzende Neubauten is an ever-changing band originally from West Berlin that was formed in 1980 as part of a modern folk music movement. ...