With his fourth feature-length film Head On (2004), internationally renowned f ilmmaker Fatih Akin won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. He went on to receive the Best Screenplay award from the Festival de Cannes and several more prestigious prizes for The Edge of Heaven (2007). Soul Kitchen (2009) won the Special Award of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival, where The Cut (2013) also had its premiere; In the Fade (2017) won several awards, including Best Actress for Diane Kruger in Cannes and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Most recently, The Golden Glove (2019) was selected in competition at the Berlinale and Rhinegold (2022) had its premiere at the Filmfest Hamburg.