Fatih Akin Wins European Parliament's Lux Prize

German filmmaker Fatih Akin (Head On) won the the Lux Prize, the European Parliament's inaugural film award, for The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite). Hanna Schygulla, star of the film, accepted the award, a trophy shaped like the Tower of Babel, at a ceremony held in Strasborg, France.

The Edge of Heaven already received the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the best screenplay award at Cannes. The second part of a trilogy which includes Head On, The Edge of Heaven is also Germany's entry for the foreign-language Oscar.

The film took the prize over two other nominees, Cristian Mungiu's  4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and Manoel Oliveira's Belle Toujours.