THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE
Section: Centrepiece
Director: Ilker Çatak
Writers: Johannes Dunker
Logline: A new junior high teacher (Leonie Benesch) becomes an amateur investigator in order to unmask a thief active in the school, but the roots and consequences of the case run deep.
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Premiere Date: Sept 12, 2023
Panelists: Ilker Çatak
Key Quotes: “School you can use as a little model for society because you have really similar structures – you have the dean like the president, and you have the people in charge with power, and then you have the students and the school paper… You have society in a little miniature.”
“We wanted to make a film about truth and how truth can be bended and how people instrumentalize things… It’s also about children’s rights. We weren’t aware of our rights when we were back in school when the teachers came into the class and wanted us to put our wallets on the table to look at them.”
