In 2006 the Turkish-German director Fatih Akin filmed the end of his film Polluting Paradise in Camburnu, the village in which his grandparents were born in north-east Turkey, where the inhabitants have lived for generations in close contact with nature. However, an ecological catastrophe menaces the village: a waste dump constructed with total disregard for the environment, opposed by the Mayor and the inhabitants. For more than five years Akin filmed the village’s fight against the institutions, testifying to the unavoidable catastrophe which has destroyed a paradise, by now lost forever. An extraordinary portrait of the rural Turkish population and a moving testimony of civil courage.
Director
Fatih Akin
Born in Hamburg in 1973, he graduated in Visual Communication. He is one of the most well-known and successful German directors. His works have received awards at the most important international festivals, from Cannes to Berlin. In 2003 he founded the production house Corazón. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2005 and at the Berlin Festival in 2001.
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