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Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent. Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity. He attended the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. Fatih Akın has... been married since 2004 to German-Mexican actress Monique Obermüller and lives in Hamburg-Altona. His brother, Cem Akın is an actor. Akın made his debut as director of a full length film as early as 1998 with Short Sharp Shock , which brought him the "Bronze Leopard" award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director in Munich the same year. Since then he has directed feature films such as Im Juli in 2000, We forgot to go back in 2001 and Solino' in 2002. His fourth work, Head-On , starring Sibel Kekilli, was a major success in 2004 and received several prizes, among them the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and the "Best Film" and the "Audience Award" at the 2004 European Film Awards.
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