ES GILT DAS GESPROCHENE WORT
Ilker Çatak's multi-award-winning film I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE (ES GILT DAS GESPROCHEN WORT) is presented as part of GERMAN CURRENTS KINO San Diego, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut, emago media, and the Digital Gym Cinema.
SHOWTIMES:
Friday, April 11th @ 7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 16th @ 7:00 PM
France, Germany (2018), 122 min. German, Turkish w/ English Subtitles
Director: Ilker Çatak, Screenplay: Nils Mohl, Ilker Çatak, Cinematography: Florain Mag, Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Oğulcan Arman Uslu, Godehard Giese, Jörg Schüttauf, Producer: Ingo Fliess, Executive Producers: Ingrid Holzapfel, Birsin Çolakoğlu, Luzie Lohmeyer, Co-Producers: Xavier Delmas (Loin Derrière l'Oural), Alexandra Staib (ZDF), Caroline von Senden (ZDF), Olaf Grunert (ZDF/arte), Barbara Häbe (arte)
Production Company: if… Productions
Ilker Çatak's sophomore feature is a nuanced examination of life's unpredictability, the progression from a troubled past to a complicated present, and the hopeful promise of the future. Opposite worlds collide when Marion (Anne Ratte-Polle), a self-confident airline pilot from Germany, meets Baran (Ogulcan Arman Uslu), a charming Turkish gigolo at a beach resort in Marmaris. With dreams of a better life beyond the Bosphorus, Baran convinces Marion to take him back to Germany. What begins as a selfless good deed and a simple arrangement develops into something more profound, as Marion's emotional barriers begin to crumble, and the two come closer than planned.
"Çatak keeps the focus on a human level as the couple faces the kind of dilemmas that might have fueled a melodrama by Douglas Sirk or Fassbinder."
- Allan Hunter, Screen
SELECT AWARDS:
Heimat Europa Filmfestpiele 2020: Edgar, Best Modern Heimatfilm
German Film Awards 2020: Lola in Bronze, Best Film
Bavaria Film Prize 2020: Best Leading Actress (Anne Ratte-Polle)
Fünf Seen Film Festival 2019: DACHS, Screenplay
German Film Festival Ludwigshafen 2019: Special Mention
Filmfest München 2019: Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino, Best Acting; Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino, Screenplay.
Ilker Çatak was born in 1984 in Berlin and studied Film and TV Directing in Berlin and Mittweida. Since 2012, he has been a post-graduate student at the Hamburg Media School. He has directed several commercials and the short films WHEN NAMIBIA WAS A CITY (2010), OLD SCHOOL (ALTE SCHULE, 2013), WHERE WE ARE (WO WIR SIND, 2013), FIDELITY (SADAKAT, 2014), THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE (2023).
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