in cooperation with Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation
The
Chennai International Film Festival aims at presenting the best of International and Indian films in Chennai and showcases the best of Tamil films to the world. It is a platform to bring together people from various cultures through the medium of cinema and to contribute to the appreciation of film cultures of different nations in the context of social and cultural ethos. Goethe-Institut participates every year with a selection of current award-winning productions in order for Chennaiites to gain exposure to German Films.
Fatih Akin - A Retrospective
Fatih Akin was born in Hamburg in 1973 as son to Turkish parents. He began studying Visual Communications at the Hamburg College of Fine Arts in 1994. He directed his first full length feature film Kurz und schmerzlos in 1998. This film brought immediate success and several awards, including the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award for the Best Young Director. In 2007, Auf der anderen Seite won the Best Screenplay Award at the Festival de Cannes. Fatih Akin today works as a script-writer, director and producer and occasionally also as an actor.
- Head-on | 121 min. | 2004
- Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul | 89 min. | 2005
- The Edge of Heaven | 122 min. | 2007
- Soul Kitchen | 100 min. | 2009
- The Cut | 139 min. | 2014
- In the Fade | 105 min. | 2017
Contemporary German Films
- Toni Erdmann | Dir.: Maren Ade | 162 min. | 2016
- Stefan Zweig-Farewell to Europe | Dir.: Maria Schrader | 106 min. | 2016
- Western | Dir.: Valeska Grisebach | 121 min. | 2017
- 3 Days in Quiberon | Dir.: Emily Atef | 115 min. | 2018
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