Soul Kitchen

Zinos is a German-Greek owner of a ramshackle Hamburg restaurant trying to hold everything together — his slipped disc, his increasingly eccentric chef, his ex-girlfriend who has moved to Shanghai, and his ex-con brother who keeps creating disasters. Fatih Akin, best known for his darker work, is here in his most purely enjoyable mode: warm, funny, overflowing with music and food and Hamburg neighbourhood energy. Won the Special Jury Prize at Venice.