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İlker Çatak (b. 1984)

Alias:
Ilker Catak
Ількер Чатак

Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany

Born:
January 11, 1984

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Director:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Director of Photography:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Editor:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Producer:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Production Assistant:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2005  Æon Flux
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Screenplay:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2005  Æon Flux
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Set Runner:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2005  Æon Flux
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Fay Grim
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Story:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2005  Æon Flux
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Fay Grim
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Third Assistant Director:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2005  One Day in Europe
2005  Æon Flux
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Fay Grim
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

Writer:
2005  Eskimo Frosch
2005  One Day in Europe
2005  Æon Flux
2006  Fast Fiktion
2007  Fay Grim
2007  Mehrzahl Heimat
2008  Ayda
2008  Between Borders
2010  When Namibia Was a City...
2013  Old School
2014  Fidelity
2014  Where We Are
2014  Zeitraum
2017  Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2019  I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2021  Blurred Lines
2023  The Teachers' Lounge
2025  Yellow Letters

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TV Production

Director:
1970  Scene of the Crime

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