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Mar 06, 2007
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Filmmor Women’s Film Festival On Wheels

5th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival On Wheel proceeds travelling with women this year, too. The festival is going to start in İstanbul to be held in March 10-18, (at the halls of French Cultural Center and Italian Cultural Center); and continue with travelling screenings in Ağrı (March 24-25), Diyarbakir (March 30-31) and Van (April 7-8).

The theme of this year’s festival is ‘honor’! We want to discuss one of the main agents of patriarchy, which is ‘honor’ circle, surrounding all women in the world, assaulting our right to life. We want look at the idea of ‘honor’ through cinema.

The films in the parts called Women’s Cinema, ‘Honor’ and Turkey - Short Films by Women are below:
Women’s Cinema:
Tell Me What You Feel / Iria Gomez Concheiro / Mexico
Waiting For Ben Gurien / Norma Marcos / Palestine
A Woman’s Word / Silvia G. Ponzoda / Spain
Dear Miss Mistress / Claire Walka / Germany
The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas/ Perihan Bayraktar
…And The Telephone / Nuran Evren Şit
Mirage / Meiwen Yang / Taiwan

‘Honour’ :
Let’s Talk About It / Deepa Mehta / Canada
Mirror, Mirror/ Blerta Basholli / Kosovo
In My Father’s House / Fatima Jebli Ouazzami / Holland, Morocco
You Can’t Beat A Woman / Gail Singer
The Apple/ Samira Malhmalbaf i/ Iran
Her Name is Güzide / Eylem Kaftan / Turkey
Requiem For Women/ Berrin Balay /Turkey
Don’t Tell / Christina Comencini / Italy
Jinen Dengbej / Workshop purple Collective / Turkey
MorAgenda 2006 / Leyla Karagül, Melek Özman, Ülkü Songül / Turkey

Turkey- Thales from Women:
A Movie with Wax / Bilge Demirtaş, Ezgi Sarıtaş, İdil Soysekçin, H. Özlem Sarıyıldız
At Noon / Pınar Asan
Natural Born Strangers / Aslı Ertürk
Sunflower – Triology / Fulya Özlem
Wet/ Zümrüt Çavuşoğlu
Dirty Laundry / Roja Rojda Serin
Minor Expectations / Bengisu Gençay
Potkal / Gökçe Pehlivanoğlu
Boreas / Belma Baş
The Last Game / Müjde Arslan
Stripping / Nilbar Güneş
Departure / Elif Ergezen
Stuffed Zucchini With Olive Oil/ Aslı Doğan

In addition:

Panels in Istanbul:
1- ‘ Honor’
Participants : Birsen Atakan, İlknur Üstün, Nükhet Sirman, Vildan Yirmibeşoğlu, Zozan Özgökçe
Date : March 10
Place : French Cultural Center
Time: 14:00

2- ‘Honor’ in Media and Yeşilçam
Participants : Alin Taşçıyan, Blerta Basholli, Alin Taşçıyan, Leyla Şimşek, Melek Özman
Tarih: March 18
Place: Italian Cultural Center
Exhibiton: ‘Women from Women’s Perspective’
Seven woman photographers’ works will be exhibited at Tütün Deposu between the dates of March 25-April 8.

The panel called ‘Honor’ will also be held in Ağrı, Van and Diyarbakır. Besides, guest directors will attend on discussion sessions with the audience and a film reading workshop will be held.