Almanya

The closing night Gala Screening was from Germany where it won the equivalent of the Best Picture Oscar. “Almanya, Welcome to Germany” is a multi-generational tale of post-war Turkish immigrants who become more German than they expected they would. Magnificent, Vedat Erincin plays the wise, sometimes naïve and always-compassionate patriarch. Out of the blue, Grandpa buys a house in their ancestral village in Anatolia and announces that they entire family will travel there for the summer holiday. The hilarious re-culturalization of everyone from his adoring but pragmatic wife to the youngest grandchild mirrors the first half of the film when Grandpa and Grandma first come to Germany..