İlker Çatak
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 11, 1984
- Place of birth
- Berlin, Germany
Biography
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.
Movies with İlker Çatak
- Eskimo Frosch 2005 · ★ 8.0
- Between Borders 2008
- Home Entertainment 2026
Movies directed by İlker Çatak
- The Teachers' Lounge 2023 · ★ 7.2
- Yellow Letters 2026 · ★ 7.2
- I Was, I Am, I Will Be 2019 · ★ 6.2
- Blurred Lines 2021 · ★ 5.7
- Once Upon a Time in Indian Country 2017 · ★ 6.9
- Fidelity 2014 · ★ 5.9
- Eskimo Frosch 2005 · ★ 8.0
- Borowski und der gute Mensch 2021 · ★ 7.0
- When Namibia Was a City... 2010
- Fast Fiktion 2006
- Between Borders 2008
- Zeitraum 2014
- Mehrzahl Heimat 2007
- Ayda 2008
- Where We Are 2014
- Old School 2013