Event
10th New York Turkish Film Festival - Yasamin Kiyisinda / The Edge of Heaven
DIRECTORS ABROAD
SYNOPSIS
Having made its world premiere in Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival where it also won the Best Screenplay Award, Yaşamın Kıyısında (The Edge of Heaven) tells the story of Turkish and German characters who discover their own identities by travelling between the two countries. The story starts when Ali, a retired widower and a Turkish immigrant in Germany, offers Turkey-born prostitute Yeter a monthly stipend on the condition that she accepts to live with him. Ali's son Nejat, although disapproving his father's decision, does not take long to grow fond of Yeter when he finds out that she sends most of her money to Turkey to pay for her daughter's university education. After the tragic death of Yeter, Nejat travels to Turkey and starts searching for Yeter's daughter Ayten. However, having fled the Turkish police for being a political activist, Ayten is already in Germany and searching for her mother. She immediately is befriended by German student Lotte. After Ayten gets arrested and is deported to Turkey, Lotte decides to abandon everything to help Ayten and follows her to Turkey where the fragile lives of all the protagonists end up unified.
FROM THE PRESS
Mr. Akın has created another film of similar geography but with a very different emotional landscape. It is a movie as much about bridging the gap between generationsfather and son, mother and daughteras between nations and cultures. He has had success with this latest film, for which he was writer, director and a producer, despite enormous expectations at home after Head-On, not the least of which were his own. The film has stood up to scrutiny. The Edge of Heaven won the screenwriting prize at Cannes, received critical acclaim in Germany and will represent the country in the competition to be nominated for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards.
Nicholas Kulish. A Hand that Links Germans and Turks. The New York Times. January 6, 2008.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
2008 German Film Awards (Germany): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best
Editing
2008 Bavarian Film Awards (Germany): Best Director
2008 German Film Critics Association Awards (Germany): Best Editing
2008 RiverRun International Film Festival (USA): Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Actress
(Hanna Schygulla)
2008 Seattle International Film Festival (USA): Emerging Masters Category
2008 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (USA): Jury Prize for Best Fiction Feature
2008 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA)
2008 Atlanta Film Festival (USA)
2007 Cannes Film Festival (France): Best Screenplay
2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Turkey): Best Director, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor (Tuncel Kurtiz), Best Supporting Actress (Nursel Kse), Special Jury Award
2007 Official German Entry for the Oscars: Best Foreign Language Film Category
2007 Cinemanila International Film Festival (The Philippines): Lino Brocka Award in International Cinema
2007 LUX Prize for European Cinema by the European Parliament
2007 European Film Awards: Best Screenwriter
2007 Bangkok International Film Festival (Thailand)
2008 Cesar Awards (France)
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LocationAnthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave. (at 2nd St.)
New York, NY 10003
United States
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