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-win...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Yellow Letters
2026
Director, Writer
Follows Derya and Aziz, a famous actress and a professor of dramatic arts at the university in Ankara, who lose their jobs and move in with Aziz's par...
Home Entertainment
2025
Florian and Marie want to spend a cozy evening on the sofa watching a movie. But that's more difficult than expected: the couple navigate through a di...
The Teachers' Lounge
2023
Director, Screenplay
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the scho...
Blurred Lines
2021
Director
Janik and Samuel are best friends and enjoy the end of high school. Their worlds are different: Janik has parents who always do everything right, whil...
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
2019
Director, Story, Writer
While Kurdish gigolo Baran dreams of a future in Europe, German pilot Marion is struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. When the two me...
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
2017
Director
A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outs...
Zeitraum
2014
Writer, Director, Producer
Frank and Magdalena happily move into their new flat. Then they make a discovery: in one of the rooms time seems to pass differently than outside of i...
Where We Are
2014
Director
Christina has lost custody of her daughter as a result of her heroin addiction. In a desperate attempt she and nine-year-old Paula try to leave the ol...
Fidelity
2014
Director
Istanbul 2014: Aslı gives shelter to a young political activist, who got into a fight with the police. The police investigates the case and ends up qu...
Old School
2013
Director
Thomas is a pickpocket and he's good at it. When he meets Violca, he changes targets. Unfortunately, he also stole from her.
When Namibia Was a City...
2010
Writer, Director, Producer
Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by routine. He has made himself comfortable in his life between television and computer and is happy that way. But ...
Ayda
2008
Director, Writer, Producer
Ayda has just arrived in Germany and lives on her own in her new colorless world. She doesn't communicate too well.
Between Borders
2008
Young and successful Ali from Istanbul leaves the big city to go search for a lucrative piece of land on a sparsely populated island. Unfortunately he...
Between Borders
2008
Director, Writer, Producer
Young and successful Ali from Istanbul leaves the big city to go search for a lucrative piece of land on a sparsely populated island. Unfortunately he...
Fay Grim
2007
Set Runner
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her t...
Mehrzahl Heimat
2007
Writer, Director, Producer
Documentary dealing with four generations of Turkish migration in Berlin, Germany.
Fast Fiktion
2006
Director, Writer, Producer
Three youths in a supermarket, trying to waste their time. The game they play is to tell a story's missing beginning, but the story told might hold mo...
Æon Flux
2005
Production Assistant
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scient...
Eskimo Frosch
2005
The seemingly too good to be true love story of a crazy young couple in Istanbul.
Eskimo Frosch
2005
Director, Writer, Editor
The seemingly too good to be true love story of a crazy young couple in Istanbul.
One Day in Europe
2005
Third Assistant Director
One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers ...