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İlker Çatak
Berlin, Germany
İlker Çatak (born 11 January 1984; Berlin) is a Turkish-German director. İlker Çatak was born in Berlin in 1984 and later lived in Istanbul where he completed high school. İlker s…
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İlker Çatak (born 11 January 1984; Berlin) is a Turkish-German director. İlker Çatak was born in Berlin in 1984 and later lived in Istanbul where he completed high school. İlker studied Film Directing in Berlin and Hamburg, graduating in 2014 at Hamburg Media School. His graduation film SADAKAT received many international awards before winning the Student Academy Award in Gold in 2015. İlker’s first feature film, ONCE UPON A TIME INDIANERLAND debuted in 2017 and is an adaptation of the award-winning youth novel ‘Es war einmal Indianerland’ by Nils Mohl. İlker’s second feature film I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE (2019) received the Bronze Lola at the German Film Awards. His feature film STAMBUL GARDEN was released in Germany in autumn 2021 and also selected at the German Film Awards. İlker’s other projects include directing an episode on the TV show TATORT. His latest film THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE will have its world premiere at the 73. Berlin Film Festival and hit theatres in May 2023.
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2026
Home Entertainment
Movie
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2026
Yellow Letters
Movie Director
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2023
The Teachers' Lounge
Movie Director
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2021
Borowski und der gute Mensch
Movie Director
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2021
Blurred Lines
Movie Director
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2019
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
Movie Director
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2017
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
Movie Director
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2014
Zeitraum
Movie Writer
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2014
Fidelity
Movie Director
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2014
Where We Are
Movie Director
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2013
Old School
Movie Director
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2010
When Namibia Was a City...
Movie Writer
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2008
Ayda
Movie Director
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2008
Between Borders
Movie
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2007
Fay Grim
Movie Set Runner
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2007
Mehrzahl Heimat
Movie Writer
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2006
Fast Fiktion
Movie Director
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2005
Æon Flux
Movie Production Assistant
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2005
One Day in Europe
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2005
Eskimo Frosch
Movie
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1970
Scene of the Crime
TV show Director
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Flesh
Movie Director
