For his follow-up to the tense and claustrophobic German middle school drama, The Teachers' Lounge, director Ilker Çatak has attempted something both more ambitious and more mystifying: a tale of ...

"The Teachers' Lounge" writer/director İlker Çatak shifts his attentions from the mob mentality of a Berlin classroom to scenes from a marriage between a Turkish artist couple being targeted by their ...

İlker Çatak’s “Yellow Letters” has been named the best film of the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, a jury headed by Wim Wenders announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday. “Yellow Letters” stars Özgü ...

'The Teachers' Lounge' director İlker Çatak’s Berlin competition title chronicles the fractures of a family unit placed in a government’s crosshairs. Something, however, is amiss. A phone goes off in ...

BERLIN, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Berlin Film Festival marriage drama "Yellow Letters" should serve as a cautionary tale for Western audiences who believe democratic backsliding is a distant concern, not a ...

Set in Turkey and filmed on location in Germany with no attempt to hide the artifice, the trenchantly honest and terrifically acted new film from The Teachers’ Lounge director Ilker Çatak might be the ...

The political drama by Oscar nominee Ilker Catak took the top award at the Berlin International Film Festival. The Golden Bear, the Berlin International Film Festival's top prize, was awarded on ...

Germany's Ilker Catak walked away with this year's Golden Bear for political drama 'Yellow Letters' — RALF HIRSCHBERGER "Yellow Letters", directed by German filmmaker Ilker Catak, won the Berlin Film ...

Berlin: İlker Çatak's thought-provoking, politically rousing drama follows a pair of thespians pushed out of Ankara and into Istanbul because of state censorship. “The Teachers’ Lounge” ...

Oscar-nominated helmer Ilker Çatak returns to the Berlinale with a family drama set in authoritarian Turkey but shot entirely in Germany. By Jordan Mintzer For his follow-up to the tense and ...