Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Teachers' Lounge" writer/director İlker Çatak shifts his attentions from the mob mentality of a Berlin classroom to scenes ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ilker Çatak, whose The Teachers’ Lounge was nominated for an Oscar as Germany’s International Feature Film submission, completed shooting his new film Yellow Letters in Hamburg on Wednesday ...

Ilker Çatak’s political drama “Yellow Letters,” which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, has sold to further territories, including the U.K., where it was acquired by Curzon Film. Çatak’s last film ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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” ...