Feb 13, 2026 1:00pm PT ‘Yellow Letters’ Review: Germany Plays Turkey in a Stirring and Surprising Political Drama 'The Teachers' Lounge' director İlker Çatak’s Berlin competition title chronicles the fractures of a family unit placed in a government’s crosshairs. By Siddhant Adlakha Plus Icon Siddhant Adlakha Latest ‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ Review: A Timely Document of Scottish Neighbors Standing Up to Immigration Raids 2 weeks ago ‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: A Powerful Documentary Uses Animation and New Interviews to Redraw a Decades-Old Injustice 2 weeks ago ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: Andrew Stanton’s Sci-Fi Epic Is One Third of a Good Movie 3 weeks ago See All Courtesy of Ella Knorz, If Productions, A La Mode Film In the riveting family drama “Yellow Letters,” German-born Turkish director İlker Çatak employs a culturally tilt-shifted backdrop for his tale of authoritarian crackdowns. The film announces, upfront via enormous on-screen text, that its setting is “Berlin as Ankara,” with the German capital standing in (sans disguise) for its Turkish equivalent, as though the film itself were in political exile.
