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Head-On
Why this pick
Akın’s earlier drama shares the original’s emotionally direct, cross-cultural German-Turkish world, using damaged family bonds and restless movement to find hard-won human connection.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Baki Davrak
Nejat Aksu
Tuncel Kurtiz
Ali Aksu
Nurgül Yeşilçay
Ayten
Hanna Schygulla
Susanne Staub
Nursel Köse
Yeter
Yelda Reynaud
Emine