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SALA DE PROFESORES

İlker Çatak
Germany
 - 2023
National premiere

Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Carla tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the structures of the school system.

İlker Çatak

He was born in Berlin in 1984. In 2005, he directed his first short film in collaboration with Johannes Duncker (‘Als Namibia eine Stadt war...’), before earning his bachelor’s degree in film and television directing in 2009. He then completed a master’s degree in directing at the Hamburg Media School. During this time, he made the short films ‘Alte Schule’ (2013), ‘Wo wir sind’ (2014), and his graduation film ‘Sadakat’ (2015), among others. With the latter, he received the prestigious Student Oscar for Best Foreign Short Film. In 2017, he made his first feature film, ‘Es war einmal Indianerland’, followed in 2019 by ‘Es gilt das gesprochene Wort’, premiered at the Filmfest München. In 2021 directed ‘Stambul Garden’ and two years later he premiered ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ (2023) at Panorama at Berlin International Film Festival, and won the Label Europa Cinemas and CICAE Awards. The film will represent Germany in the race for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

DIRECTOR
İlker Çatak
SCREENPLAY
Ilker Çatak, Johannes Duncker
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Judith Kaufmann
EDITOR
Gesa Jäger
SOUND
Torsten Többen, Kirsten Kunhardt, Michael Hinreiner
MUSIC
Marvin Miller
PRODUCTION
Ingo Fliess
PRODUCTION COMPANY
if... Productions Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Arte
CAST
Leonie Benesch, Michael Klammer, Rafael Stachowiak, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Eva Löbau, Kathrin Wehlisch, Sarah Bauerett, Leo Stettnisch
RUNNING TIME
94 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in German with English and Spanish subtitles
COUNTRY
Germany
CONTACT
Be For Films
IN SPAIN
A Contracorriente Films

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