In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.

	
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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German

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Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.

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Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English, English [SDH], German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish

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A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German

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Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.

Nicolas Rapold wrote:
I always find a bit dismaying those moments in globetrotting documentaries when it’s giddily revealed that, centuries of local culture notwithstanding, the kids in these far-flung locales actually just live for Top 40 hip-hop. Mine is not an old curmudgeon’s grumbling gone global but a frustration with the smug feeling of inevitability implicit in these proudly presented Western eruptions. It’s as if, well, of course, American pop culture is what anyone, anywhere around the world, given the chance, ultimately and in his or her truly most fulfilled democratic and individualistic state, wants. As signaled by the title (and articulated by a musician early on), Crossing the Bridge is highly conscious of this kind of cultural transition and journey, though the initial emphasis is not on the inevitable hegemony of the West but on the false projection of a divide between East and West—which music happily ignores. Put that way, the early visits with bands working out psychedelic-rock and grunge styles and a guy motormouthing blustering raps to the camera first off at least seem less disappointing (though the “Istanbul Style Breakers” we can do without).

But more importantly, Crossing makes its strongest commentary on matters East-West through its structure—an order of presentation that reverses the usual narrative of Westernization as progress: the Turkish pyschedelic rock and hip-hop do not come at the end of a survey of the country’s native forms as if in culmination, but are merely early stops along the way. The climactic triumphs of Turkey’s music, the longed-for destinations, are properly all its own: a band of mangily appealing buskers, a shiver-inducing Kurdish dirge singer, and a couple of motherland superstars: Arab-inflected mega-lutist Orhan Gencebay and the queenly Sezen Aksu singing “Memories of Istanbul.”

Akin’s documentary rolls along freely, though, without pressing this idea, because the director is falling into a warm embrace—a softer counterpart to his prickly breakthrough Head On, whose own wrenched-apart ethnic identities and punk-rock ardors nevertheless linger in the echoes of this doc’s music. The burdened Turkish-German characters of Head On began by violently forgetting their inherited culture, a struggle which Akin, in a self-described “Brechtian” gesture, broke up with “postcard” entr’actes featuring a classical Turkish singer with accompaniment singing at riverside (a figure who appears, almost as if a meta-celebrity, in the person of a 86-year-old diva with suited ensemble, far along into the doc). Here the movement is from the present into the past, recalling Akin’s comments about Head On reminding him of the maddened spirit underneath both punk and Turkish love songs (some on display here), in their embrace of self-maddening and -consuming frenzies of passion that make amour fou sound creampuff. The Kurdish dirge unleashed (and then, perhaps, “maintained” is the word) by singer Aynur in a hamam (steam bath) transports one to an entire moonlit desert of want.

Crossing the Bridge, as a sidenote, features Alexander Hacke (bassist for Einstürzende Neubaten) as our rumpled companion, blessedly ignorable at the margins despite his role in recording, blending in as one of the many music-lovers and –makers who say their peace here. One in the group of street musicians extols “the street,” even as another cautions against “romanticizing concrete,” and Akin’s willingness to include the latter comment epitomizes an adoring, nimble music doc that does more than just sound good, whether majestically extending into infinity or skittering away on lutes with wine-stained fingers in gypsy bars.

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Language:Turkish,Kurdish,German,English
Subtitles:English

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In ‘Gegen die Wand’ Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for freedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother’s heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent’s house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love.

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Language(s):French
Subtitles: English (srt), Danish (vobsub), Finnish (vobsub), Norwegian (vobsub), Swedish (vobsub)

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First off: Fatih Akin’s “The Cut” was an aberration, as we all suspected. The director celebrated for his edgy takes on intriguing characters more or less returns with “In the Fade,” a well-constructed, at times moving story of a Hamburg woman seeking justice after the murder of her Kurdish husband and son by a couple of Neo-Nazis. “More or less” because the excellent first quarter gives way to a relatively standard-issue though handsomely produced legal drama with several stock characters and a script that feels too guided by the presumed requirements of mainstream cinema. Diane Kruger’s powerhouse performance in her first German-language production goes a long way toward compensating for the narrative’s dip into overly crystalline waters, and international sales have been unsurprisingly brisk given the film’s incontrovertible general appeal.

For good or bad, Akin has to grapple with the fact that everyone continues to compare his recent films with “Head-On,” one of those rare, hip crossover movies with appeal to critics and general audiences alike. Given the theme and Kruger’s incandescence, “In the Fade” may do better business, and Rainer Klausmann’s confidently fluid camerawork just gets better and better, yet Akin’s script, co-written like last year’s “Goodbye Berlin” with Hark Bohm, keeps numerous side characters as half-drawn caricatures and then, toward the very end, makes several poor choices. Still, the deeply troubling rise of the far right, and news of racist violence, add to the topicality.

Shaky cell phone footage starts things off right, recording the boisterous Big House wedding of jailed drug dealer Nuri Şekerci (Numan Acar) to trashy bottle-blonde Katja (Kruger). That cuts to the present, with Nuri set up in business, Katja his bookkeeper, and six-year-old adorable son Rocco (Rafael Santana) completing the happy picture. Akin impressively shorthands the tight-knit, playful family dynamic so we feel invested in their lives within a remarkably quick time, making the tragedy that comes next truly wrenching.

Katja leaves Rocco with Nuri at the office while she goes to a spa with friend Brigit (Samia Chancrin). On return, she finds police barricades and learns that a bomb killed her loved ones. Kruger’s ability to convey fierce inner strength while also falling apart makes Katja the kind of character you want to follow, and the subsequent scenes of her in mourning, negotiating the prejudices of parents and in-laws while the cops leap to conclusions given Nuri’s jail time, bring a well-earned lump to the throat.

The investigation latches onto Katja’s recollection of a young German woman she noticed leaving a bike outside Nuri’s office shortly before the explosion. Soon the woman, Edda Möller (Hanna Hilsdorf) and her husband André (Ulrich Friedrich Brandhoff) are arrested and the trial of these two neo-Nazi sympathizers begins. Katja’s friend Danilo Fava (Denis Moschitto) is prosecuting attorney, pitted against nasty defense lawyer Haberbeck (Johannes Krisch).

The courtroom scenes, visually conceived in b&w tonalities, have an equally black-and-white feel in how they play out: The prominent unpleasant scab on Haberbeck’s forehead practically screams “sleazebag mouthpiece,” and Danilo’s rousing speech of indignant righteousness comes exactly when expected. The case is well-argued but the Möllers, obviously guilty, get off when the judges declare reasonable doubt. A gutted Katja decides to take justice into her own hands.

One scene in particular stands out above the rest: After the bombing when the cops have no leads, Katja is at her lowest point. In an overhead shot, we see her in the bathtub, blood from her slit wrists gently wafting through the water. The phone rings, she slowly sinks into the reddened water, but before going completely under hears Danilo’s voice on the machine saying the police have arrested Edda. Katja’s head emerges from the side of the tub, covered in blood but determined to go to trial. The well-balanced sequence is equally affecting and stylish; from this moment on, the film moves into faultlessly constructed but too familiar territory.

Although Katja is well-conceived (multiple tattoos and a bad dye job ground the character in her working class past), her milieu doesn’t make sense. Her large house with garden and matte black BMW don’t fit the profile, and there’s something off about the explanation of how she and Nuri could afford such a home. It’s OK not knowing much about the Möllers, since this isn’t their film (although Edda’s father Jürgen, well-played by Ulrich Tukur, has a nice turn during the trial), but too many roles feel like workshopped accumulations of specific characteristics fitted to a particular need in the story, rather than three-dimensional figures.

DP Klausmann knows to keep his camera as much as possible on Kruger’s grounded performance, assured yet inhabiting the borders of fragility. Lensing of the early scenes has a suitably playful energy, giving way to more sober movements and stillness as the torrential Hamburg skies weep for Katja’s loss. The film’s German title translates to “out of nothingness,” which feels more apt than the English “In the Fade.”

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https://nitro.download/view/A9A99118325536D/Fatih_Akin_-_(2017)_In_the_Fade.mkv

Language:German, Greek, English, Turkish
Subtitles:Turkish

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The power of co-incidence is explored to dramatic effect in The Edge Of Heaven, a Turkish-German production about two deaths that bring strangers together. Once the opening titles warn us of “Yeter’s Death”, we see Turkish prostitute Yeter meeting an elderly client, Ali, in Germany and watch her fate unfold. Shifting to Turkey and Germany and back again, this spirited, beautifully-acted drama follows both Ali’s son and Yeter’s daughter in the wake of the tragedy.

By forewarning us of deaths, the film creates tension and an inevitable sense of impending doom – much like the opening scene in an episode of morturary drama Six Feet Under, when you’re waiting to see how the latest client-to-be will die. But The Edge Of Heaven isn’t a wholly depressing affair. There’s a sense of hope as characters show strangers kindness, and a comforting feeling that fate will bring people together. The level of co-incidence borders on the superstitious, but the gritty elements of the film keep it grounded in reality.

“A COMPLEX, QUIETLY COMPELLING TALE”

Yeter’s daughter Ayten is a political refugee who falls foul of both Turkish and German authorities, which leads to several disturbing scenes. That said, it’s Ayten’s new friend Lotte who should really be worried, as the titles of the second segment inform us. The intimacy between these two young woman brings the drama into more tender territory, and while a few frustrating loose ends are left open, The Edge Of Heaven ends on a gently moving and thought-provoking note. A complex, quietly compelling tale.

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https://nitro.download/view/8510E2D0F584E26/Fatih_Akin_-_(2007)_The_Edge_of_Heaven.mkv

Language:German, English, Turkish
Subtitles:English

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