US EditionInterview with Ilker Çatak on "Yellow Letters", the Splendid Golden Bear 2026
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It is a thrilling thriller where a couple of artists are confronted with censorship and a social death. "Yellow Letters", by German director Ilker Çatak, talks about a dismissal in order to be able to talk more about freedom. A story inspired by the wave of purges orchestrated by the regime of Turkish President Erdogan. A striking parable about the ravages caused by an authoritarian state in the intimate lives of the victims. The striking and fa…
A golden bear at the Berlinale, the new film by the German director of Turkish origin explores, with a deeply universal narrative, the explosion of a marriage in the face of a suffocating regime.
A Turkish intellectual couple sees its existence shift after arbitrary dismissal. An intimate and political drama by Ilker Çatak (The Teachers' Room) that questions the fragility of our democracies, rewarded with the Golden Bear at the last Berlinale.
İlker Çatak, director of "La Salle des profs", proposes a new feature film in the form of "Yellow Letters", which traces the dilemma of a couple of artists under Erdoğan's dictatorship.
Ours d'or at the last Berlin Festival, this captivating film by German director of Turkish origin Ilker Çatak, in theaters this Wednesday, April 1, 2026, attaches to a couple of artists who have suffered from a purging of Erdogan's regime in cultural circles. A political pamphlet with an intimate narrative.
A couple of artists find themselves resourceless for having dared to criticize the Turkish president. Ours d'or suprise at the recent Berlinale, Yellow Letters, despite a scenario a little too marked, is of dreadful efficiency.
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