Soul Kitchen (2009)

Directed by: Fatih Akin

Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Anna Bederke, Lucas Gregorowicz, Udo Kier

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Mon Sep 14, 6:00 PM – RYERSON
Tue Sep 15, 12:00 PM – RYERSON
Sat Sep 19, 12:15 PM – VARSITY 8

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Synopsis: From the director of Head-on comes the story of a young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble. Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn’t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias.

Programme: Special Presentations

Language: German

Country: Germany

Runtime: 99 minutes

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