The Edge of Heaven October 17, 2008

FLICS presents The Edge of Heaven.

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
Director: Fatih Akin
The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. Nejat disapproves of his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But changes his mind when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's education. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to find Yeter's daughter Ayten. However, political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having to flee the Turkish police. There, she meets Lotte who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not pleasing to her conservative mother. When Ayten is eventually arrested, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

A tremendous film: Focusing on a variety of characters in director Fatih Akin's Turkey based film you can never really tell exactly who is at the center of the story and you don't really care as you get so caught up in the stories of those you are watching as they appear to be on a collision course for one another, yet they never quite manage to make it... at least not in the literal sense.

“Mr. Akin’s film is so full of life it leaves you breathless.” The Wall Street Journal

From acclaimed director Fatih Akin (Head On, Crossing the Bridge), this Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award-winner follows the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons across cultural and political lines. Once again navigating the cultural divide between his parents’ Turkey and his native Germany, Akin’s dramatic feature conjures the interconnectedness of generations through the plight of a young political exile. (2007, 122 min.)



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