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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Set in Turkey and filmed on location in Germany with no attempt to hide the artifice, the trenchantly honest and terrifically ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...