Head-On (Directors Suite) (German/Turkish)

A sexually-explicit drama about second-generation Turkish immigrants ("guest-workers" or gästarbeiter) in Germany, Head On is an exploration of love and anguish in culturally-repressive worlds. Numbed by drugs, alcohol and a deep depression, Cahit drives his car into a wall. In the hospital he meets Sibel, a beautiful young Muslim girl who attempted suicide to escape from her conservative family. Bound by their shared heritage and desperate to change their lives Cahit and Sibel devise a plan to live together in a marriage of convenience. Gradually they begin to fall in love, until an explosion of jealousy sends Cahit to jail and Sibel to Turkeyboth vowing eternal fidelity. A raw and uncompromising drama, Head On is one of the first films to tackle the problems facing Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Director: Faith Akin
Languages: German / Turkish
English subtitles