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Fatih Akin On His Career And Straddling German And Turkish Culture On Screen — Red Sea Film Festival

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Director, screenwriter and producer Fatih Akin passed through the Red Sea film festival Monday where he discussed his career and what he described as the unique experience of straddling Turkish and German culture in his films.

Akin, who has brought his latest film Rheingold to Red Sea, was born in Hamburg and has primarily worked in Germany, but is of Turkish descent.

Akin told the crowd in Jeddah that when his films began to find an audience in Germany and across Europe, he was often frustrated by commentators who described them as “issue films” because they dealt with characters who have dual nationalities and cultures. “I don’t do problem films.

I do films about people with two cultures,” he said. “It took me a while to get away from the word issue. There are no issues in living with two cultures.

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