Fatih Akin is no stranger to the festival circuit, having wowed Berlin with his Golden Bear-winning Head-On in 2004 and nabbing best screenplay in Cannes for The Edge of Heaven in 2007. The German-Turkish filmmaker, also a Golden Globe winner for 2017’s In the Fade, has sent a couple of movies to San Sebastian over the years. “I don’t remember which films it was,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter on Zoom. “But I always wanted to go.” Akin is getting his chance and then some with this year’s haunting opener Ghost Song, following two students who meet in a Berlin nightclub and immediately fall head over heels in love. Farasha (Mariam…
