GER26 The Edge of Heaven
GER26 The Edge of Heaven
Auf der anderen Seite
Fatih Akin draws attention to several lives moving between Germany and Turkey, where chance encounters, political conflict, and personal loss quietly draw strangers into one another’s orbit. A widowed immigrant, his academic son, a politically active young woman, and a German mother and daughter become linked through a series of departures, deaths, and near-misses that gradually reveal the depth of their emotional connection. Rather than centring on one relationship, the film unfolds as an intricate chain of grief, responsibility, and unexpected care.
Its themes are quieter than melodrama but no less powerful, focusing on exile, mourning, reconciliation, and the uneasy experience of living between languages, nations, and identities. Akin is especially interested in how guilt and compassion can coexist, and how people attempt to repair damage they did not always mean to cause. The film carries a strong sense of movement, but also of longing for a place, person, or feeling that remains just out of reach. Produced as a German-Turkish co-production, it won Fatih Akin the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes in 2007.
WINNER - Best Screenplay, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2007
WINNER - European Screenwriter, European Film Awards 2007
WINNER – Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, German Film Awards 2008
“This is an intriguing, complex, beautifully acted and directed piece of work, partly a realist drama of elaborate coincidences, near-misses and near-hits.” – The Guardian
German, Turkish with English subtitles
Fatih Akin draws attention to several lives moving between Germany and Turkey, where chance encounters, political conflict, and personal loss quietly draw strangers into one another’s orbit. A widowed immigrant, his academic son, a politically active young woman, and a German mother and daughter become linked through a series of departures, deaths, and near-misses that gradually reveal the depth of their emotional connection. Rather than centring on one relationship, the film unfolds as an intricate chain of grief, responsibility, and unexpected care.
Its themes are quieter than melodrama but no less powerful, focusing on exile, mourning, reconciliation, and the uneasy experience of living between languages, nations, and identities. Akin is especially interested in how guilt and compassion can coexist, and how people attempt to repair damage they did not always mean to cause. The film carries a strong sense of movement, but also of longing for a place, person, or feeling that remains just out of reach. Produced as a German-Turkish co-production, it won Fatih Akin the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes in 2007.
WINNER - Best Screenplay, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2007
WINNER - European Screenwriter, European Film Awards 2007
WINNER – Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, German Film Awards 2008
“This is an intriguing, complex, beautifully acted and directed piece of work, partly a realist drama of elaborate coincidences, near-misses and near-hits.” – The Guardian
German, Turkish with English subtitles
Rating:
M
Runtime:
122 mins
Session Times
Prospect Cinemas
No sessions running at Prospect this week