Director
İlker Çatak
42 years · Berlin, Germany · 12 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Home Entertainment
2026 · Actor
Yellow Letters
2026 · Director, Writer
The Teachers' Lounge
2023 · Director, Screenplay
Borowski und der gute Mensch
2021 · Director
Blurred Lines
2021 · Director
On Tubi TV
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2019 · Director, Writer
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2017 · Director
Zeitraum
2014 · Director, Writer
Where We Are
2014 · Director
Fidelity
2014 · Director
Old School
2013 · Director
When Namibia Was a City...
2010 · Director, Writer