Distribution Territory/ies:
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Spain
Finland
France
Greece
Italy
Lithuania
Latvia
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Romania
Sweden
United Kingdom

Call Nº: 04/2007

Call Nº: 27/2007

International Title: The edge of heaven

Coproducing Contry/ies:  Germany  Turkey 

Production Company/ies: Corazón International

Website: www.corazon-int.de

Director: Fatih Akin

Script: Fatih Akin

Cast: Nurgül Yesilcay / Baki Davrak / Tuncel Kurtiz / Hanna Schygulla / Patrycia Ziolkowska / Nursel Köse

Synopsis: Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.