Rhinegold

In a career dotted with Cannes, Venice and Berlinale award-winners including Head-On, Soul Kitchen and The Edge of Heaven, Rhinegold is Akin’s biggest box office hit. Executed with all the style, swagger, humour and intellectual smarts that are found it in its subject, this amazing-but-true biopic soars from the start, with Giwar Hajabi born in a cave during the Iranian Revolution. What follows is an astonishing story that takes Giwar to Germany as a refugee who later becomes a gangster wanted for crimes including a brazen gold heist. Emilio Sakraya is dynamite as the adult Giwar, whose deep love of music and emergence as rapper Xatar serves as the film’s powerful emotional core.