The Second Sunderland Film Festival - 21st

the second sunderland film festival - january 2005

Head-On (Germany)
showing Friday 28th January, 6.00pm
121 mins cert 18 German/Turkish/English with subtitles
A dark love story set in the world of second generation Turkish immigrants in Germany. Two despairing suicidal people meet in hospital, and agree to a marriage of convenience to enable the girl to escape her repressive family. But things don't stay so simple, and tragedy ensues.

Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Biroh Unel, Sibel Kekilli
2004 FIPRESCI award; Golden Bear; Best Director, Best Film, European Film Awards; German Film Awards, etc etc
"It's convincing, it's touching, it's powerful. A comedy, a tragedy, a tragi-comedy. A sad and gentle ending" Jump Cut magazine

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Come back regularly for news of SFF3 as it begins to transpire.

For full listings of the times and dates each film was shown check out the timetable.

For any furthur information about SFF2:

Call Neil Young on 07967 606831 or e-mail him here.

This year saw the introduction of a new short-film competition designed to unleash the movie-making potential of people in and around the Sunderland area - and far, far beyond: selected entries were shown at Kino Vivaldi.

For details of this and the rest of the Digital Sidebar click here.

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