When Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school, she stands out for her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to investigate the matter
on her own. Carla tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the rigid structures of the school system. The more desperately she tries to do everything
right, the more the young teacher threatens to break. Exhibited at the Berlinale 2023.
İlker Çatak
Born in Berlin in 1984, the son of Turkish immigrants, and moved to Istanbul at the age of twelve. Starting in 2005, the filmmaker attracted attention with his award winning short films such as When Namibia Was a City... (2010), Wo Wir Sind (2014) and Sadakat (2014). In 2017, Çatak made his first feature film, Once Upon a Time... Indianerland followed in 2019 by I Was, I Am, I Will Be.
