Filmmakers Ilker Çatak wins Student Oscar in gold – T-Online

Los Angeles (dpa) – The young German director Ilker Çatak won in Los Angeles student Oscar in gold

The 31-year-old received the award on Thursday evening (. local time) in Beverly Hills in the category “Best Foreign Language Film” for his work “Fidelity” as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.

The second prize was Dustin Loose of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg for the short film “The Last Will”, the “any proceedings” is in the original. Bronze went to the Lower Patrick Vollrath, now at the Vienna Film Academy, for “Everything Will Be Okay” (“Everything will be alright”).

The fact that the student Oscar in the category “Best Foreign Film” in comes to Germany this year, it was clear for a long time, since all three finalists came from the Federal Republic. Only with the Gala in California but became known, who with gold, with silver and who is honored with bronze.

“Fidelity” in German loyalty or honesty, is Çataks graduation film at the Hamburg Media School. “Sadakat” which is the Turkish title, plays during the political unrest in Turkey around the Taksim Square and was filmed in 2014 with great risk in Istanbul. The film tells of a young doctor. On the road rage riots between demonstrators and police. In a spontaneous action, it provides a political activist protection – this device also their families targeted by the police

“It’s about courage and it’s about attitude and that’s why that one is entitled to certain things in life”. , the 31-year-old had said. “I just felt the need to make a movie that picks up the political situation in Turkey.”

Çatak was born in 1984 in Berlin. When he was twelve, his family moved to Istanbul, after graduation, he returned to Germany. He learned first in Berlin and then in Hamburg, the film crafts and earned among others commercials money. As an example he referred to the Turkish-born Hamburg director Fatih Akin (“Head On”).

In Los Angeles, he was already the second time this year. He had shown his film already at the Palm Springs Festival in January. Already in 2014 Çatak was “where we are” nominated for his film for the Student Oscar went back then but empty-handed.

The Student Academy Awards are the offshoot of the most important film prize in the world for the next generation. You are awarded since 1972nd Previous award recipients include, at that time still unknown, John Lasseter (“Toy Story”), Robert Zemeckis (“Back to the Future,” “Forrest Gump”) and Spike Lee (“Malcolm X”).