Tag: İlker Çatak

Yellow Letters | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

How to Beat the High Cost of Fascism: Çatak Flounders in Blaring Treatise Following his Academy Award nominated The Teacher’s Lounge (2023), Turkish-German director Ilker...

You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners

YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...

2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp

There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...

2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard

Last year, the Un Certain Regard section had several gems. Caméra d'Or jury prized Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's Armand and the UCR jury of Xavier...

2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves & Anatomy of a Fall Grab Most Noms

The European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards and while Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too...

2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected

Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...

The Exiles: Ilker Çatak Travels to Turkish Backdrop for New Project “Yellow Letters”

Striking while the iron is hot, multi Berlinale prize-winning filmmaker Ilker Çatak will be moving on to his next project later this year with...

Power Dynamics: Sony Pictures Classics Takes a Seat in “The Teachers’ Lounge”

A major break-out film outside the competition of the Berlinale's Panorama section and a double winner of the Europa Cinemas Label award for Best...

The Teachers’ Lounge | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

Dangerous Finds: Catak Mines the Impossibility of Idealism in Departmental Dilemma Sometimes maintaining the semblance of a ‘safe space’ means sublimating self-righteousness, a lesson learned...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.