İlker Çatak’s ‘Yellow Letters’ Wins Golden Bear for Best Film
The German-Turkish filmmaker accepted the top prize from jury president Wim Wenders.
German-Turkish filmmaker İlker Çatak lifted the Golden Bear for his bold film Yellow Letters, a portrait of a married playwright and actress in contemporary Turkey who find themselves targeted by the state for their particular brand of protest theater.
It’s a stirring film with a compelling formal twist. Though it’s set entirely in Turkey, it was shot entirely in Çatak’s home country of Germany, with major cities credited as “playing” their Turkish counterparts in title cards.
Before presenting it with the prize, jury president Wenders commended the film for “speaking up very clearly about the political language of totalitarianism as opposed to the empathetic language cinema,” and declared it “a terrifying vision into the future.”
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