Ilker Çatak

Ilker Çatak is a director and screenwriter from Berlin. He grew up in Berlin and Istanbul and spent four years working for German and international cinema productions before studying film formally. He has realised over a dozen short films. His fourth feature film “Das Lehrerzimmer” (“The Teacher's Lounge”), which premiered last year in Panorama, is nominated for the Oscar® as Best International Feature Film of the Year 2024. Çatak has also received numerous prizes for his other short and feature-length works, such as “Es gilt das gesprochene Wort” (“I Was, I Am, I Will Be”).