Yellow Letters | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
How to Beat the High Cost of Fascism: Çatak Flounders in Blaring Treatise
Following his Academy Award nominated The Teacher’s Lounge (2023), Turkish-German director Ilker Çatak conjures a more overt political exercise in Yellow Letters (Gelbe Briefe). Set in Ankara and Istanbul (with German cities Berlin and Hamburg standing in for Turkey), a well-heeled artistic family finds themselves unnecessarily maligned by the state amidst a growing wave of fascism in the country. The exact political ramifications aren’t exactly spelled out as the family scrambles to regain their bearings after their views find them receiving the titular correspondences which run them out of their professions and then their home, but it’s clear any sort of criticism or resistance to those in power is cause enough.… Read the rest
