The focus of the next session for the English-language KINO! FILM SALON online film club on October 13th will be Fatih Akin’s feature film drama THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, which celebrated its world premiere in the Cannes International Competition in 2007. Eventually the film received three German Film Awards in 2008.

German Film's curator Jim Kolmar's personal comment: “Fatih Akin’s THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, the fiction follow up to his debut AGAINST THE WALL, delivers another tour of thematic complexity and cinematic bravado. The story follows a cluster of overlapping narratives that centre around the search for family in the wake of tragedy. It’s a layered exploration of intersecting relationships, particular those between Turkey and Germany. Akin displays his gift for deep, flawed characters, unafraid to show them at both their best and their worst. There are no clear lines here, and no easy answers. Akin’s elegant aesthetics complement a strong cast of Turkish and German actors including a heartbreakingly understated Hannah Schygulla.

As is typical with Fatih Akin’s films, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN operates on a far deeper level than the surface narrative, offering an impassioned critique of the things that divide us, and the artificial reasons they exist in the first place. In short, it’s unmissable, and one of the great European films of the last twenty years.”

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Date and time: Sunday, October 13 at 11:00am – 12:00pm PT, 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET, 8:00pm – 9:00pm CET.
Hosted by Jim Kolmar

KINO! FILM SALON is a production of Telescope Film, in collaboration with the German Film Office.