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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brussels-based Be for Films has unveiled a first round of international deals for “Yellow Letters,” İlker Çatak’s follow-up to “The Teachers’ Lounge,” which won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival in ...

"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 ...