"...as the lives of the characters cross and entwine, there is a sense of human connections becoming stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral order coalescing beneath the randomness and cruelty of modern life.”

--A.O. Scott, New York Times

Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)

(Germany/Turkey, 2007, 120 mins.)

In German, Turkish, and English with English subtitles.

Directed and written by

Fatih Aiken

With

Nurgül Yesilçay, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nursel Köse, Hanna Schygulla

Producers:

Andreas Thiel, Klaus Maeck, Fatih Akin

Camera:

Rainer Klausmann

Editor:

Andrew Bird

Music:

Shantel

Screening Format:

35 mm

Awards and Honors:

Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007; Best Director at Bavarian Film Awards; Best Foreign Film at Cesar Awards (France); Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at German Film Awards; Top Five Foreign Films by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

ejat initially disapproves of his widower father Ali’s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But the young professor warms to her when he learns that most of her hard-earned money is sent home to Turkey for her daughter’s university studies. After Yeter’s accidental death, 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, much to the displeasure of her conservative mother, Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Passionate Lotte abandons everything to help Ayten. A tragic event brings Susanne to Istanbul to help fulfill her daughter’s mission (Strand Releasing). Watch the trailer for Edge of Heaven.

Rating:

Recommended for mature audiences.

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Strand Releasing in presenting Edge of Heaven.

Preceded by

The Perfect Match

(Canada, 2008, 5 mins.)

Directed by

Tom Diamond

With the Voices of

Richard Margeson, John Fanning

Production Design:

Julia Tribe

Camera:

Jason Tan

he Perfect Match is a five minute opera produced by Tapestry New Opera Works. It is the story of two singular socks (played by sock puppets) who, in finding each other, complete themselves. It is a comedy, it is an opera, it is a puppet film, but ultimately it is a story about companionship. These lonely socks crave the same thing that we all want – our other half, our soul mate. (Director’s Statement).

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Tom Diamond in presenting The Perfect Match.

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