Crossing the Bridge | The Sound of Istanbul - Thursday 29th @ 18.15

Crossing the Bridge deals with a director's love for a city. It is Fatih Akin, who is in love with the city and about to explore its sound. The film describes a western point of view, a view from the distance, in a foreign, tense, erotic, dangerous, tempting city. It is a seeking, an odyssey, undertaken by the protagonist to explore the musical sources, influences and perspectives of the city. Istanbul is burning. If Berlin was the hippest city in the early 90ies, Havanna at the end of the 90ies, it might be the beginning of the new millenium that gives Istanbul the role to represent Europe's ultimate megacity.Crossing the Bridge is the ideal curtain-raiser to the 5th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2012 (BIFF), scheduled from December 20 to 27, 2012. Germany is Country of Focus at the Festival and apart from a package of exciting contemporary German feature films, there will be a Fatih Akin Retrospective, with no less than 6 of his best films.