Yellow Letters Tops Berlinale Golden Bear, Highlighting Politics in Cinema

İlker Çatak’s Yellow Letters won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival, praised for its political language despite controversy around the role of politics in cinema; other winners included Emin Alper’s Salvation (Grand Jury Prize), Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea (Jury Prize), Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Best Director), and Sandra Hüller for Rose (Best Lead Performance), with a documentary/Perspectives prize going to Chronicles From the Siege amid broader festival debates.