Fatih Akın is a Turkish-German film director. In 1994 he attended Hamburg's College of Fine Arts to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. Akın made his debut as director of a full length film already in 1998 with "Kurz und schmerzlos" ("Short Sharp Shock"), which brought him the award "Bronze Leopard" at Locarno, Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for the best young director in Munich the same year. Wikipedia
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