Fatih Akin loves Hamburg – the city he was born in and grew up in. He also loves making movies and these movies are generally loved by everybody else. So it‘s not such a big surprise that Akin‘s latest movie, Soul Kitchen, is a declaration of love for the city of Hamburg. But love is a struggle and can sometimes be painful.

Akin’s movie is all of this. It can be said that he directed a “Heimatfilm”, but home/heimat is not what it used to be, even if it‘s still the same place. This is the situation the main protagonist Zino is thrown into when the love of his life moves away to Shanghai, leaving him alone and stranded in Hamburg. In a desperate attempt to follow her he soon realizes that the chains of home are heavier then he thought.