Mini biography

Fatih Akin (August 25, 1973, Hamburg, Germany)

Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage.

He began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg’s College of Fine Arts in 1994.

His collaboration with Wüste Film also dates from this time.

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 short film, Weed (Getuerkt, 1996), received several national and international festival prizes.

“The funnier it is in the beginning of a story, the more dramatic it can become. Because when an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.”

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. --World Cinema Foundation

His other films:

2000   In July - Im Juli
2001   Wir Haben Vergessen Zurueckzukehren
2002   Solino 
2004   Head-On - Gegen Die Wand
2005   Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul.
2007   The Edge of Heaven - Auf der anderen Seite
2009   Soul Kitchen
2012   Polluting Paradise

Director - Selected filmography

1. The Golden Glove | Der Goldene Handschuh (2019)
   
2. In the Fade | Aus dem Nichts (2017)
   
3. The Cut (2014)
   
4. Polluting Paradise | Der Müll im Garten Eden (2012)
   
5. Soul Kitchen (2009)
   
6. The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite (2007)
   
7. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | İstanbul Hatırası: Kِprüyü Geçmek (2005)
   
8. Head-On | Gegen die Wand (2004)
   
9. Solino (2002)
   
10. In July | Im Juli (2000)