Film Club KINO! Film Salon: The Edge of Heaven

Co-presented with Telescope Film

KINO! Film Salon is a monthly online club to discuss films from Germany.
 
How it works: Each month we choose a German film or series currently available to stream on U.S. platforms, watch it independently, and come together for a hosted conversation with other fans of German film.
Register In our October session, we will discuss Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (2007) which follows a cluster of overlapping narratives centered around the search for family in the wake of tragedy. In a layered exploration of intersecting relationships 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. It’s unmissable, and one of the great European films of the last twenty years.

The Edge of Heaven premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Best Screenplay Award.

Hosted by Jim Kolmar

Jim programs for SXSW and Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, and was a founding committee member of Festival Internacional de Cine Tulum (FICTU). He has participated in numerous international festival juries, panels, and committees.
 
KINO! Film Salon is a production of Telescope Film, in partnership with the German Film Office. This session is presented as part of the Goethe-Institut’s “Longing/Belonging” festival in North America.

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Dir. Fatih Akin
Germany, 2007
123 minutes
With Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla
 
 

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