On Screen, Tackling Europe’s New Reality

In Germany, the popularity of a movie about Turks living in Hamburg may signal a new national multiculturalism. Film has played a similar role in other European countries, making ostracized immigrants sympathetic to those who'd ignored or hated them. "Head-On", directed by Fatih Akin, is not the first Turkish-German movie to be made, but it is the first to find such sweeping financial and critical success. The film is a love story of sorts, yet it touches on an uncomfortable theme: Europe's failure to integrate first-generation immigrants and their increasingly disaffected European-born children. Yet the success of one film may not be enough to quell increasing social tensions. – YaleGlobal