The theme of this year’s festival which is going to be happen on the
14th March – 22nd of March, 2008 is “Women’s History: Obedience, Rebellion, Feminism”. Films from women’s history, which is also the history of rebellion,
dreaming another world as well as obedience, stories of women’s existence and resistance, women’s dreams… 46 films from 13 countries is with you in the 6th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival…
This year’s Filmmor International Women’s which will be the 6th is going to be held in Istanbul, between the dates of 14th – 22nd of March, 2008. Films will be featured at Beyoğlu Alkazar Cinema and French Cultural Center and meet with the audience on 28th-29th of March at Eskişehir, 4th-5th of April at Tunceli and 11th-12th of April at Van, after Istanbul.
Festival will be held with the dream of;
- Increasing the visibility of women’s and all life experiences, and exchange of experience between women,
- Aiming to improve women’s participation to cinema and media, possibilities of representing themselves in this area, their production and power,
- And of course a life where gender inequalities do not exist, both women and men have equal opportunities, violence and discrimination disappear.
There will be video forum, film reading workshop and discussions with directors either.
In the Women’s Cinema section in 6th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival, a young women wanting to play accordion struggles for her future while in Macedonia, women can not find a toilet to go in a modern city full of high-rise buildings in India… History of another woman from Canada who decides the possibility of loving more than one person, a surprise encountered by a young woman who is getting ready for telling her sexual orientation to her family in Iceland, fantastic story of a woman who gets bored to keep everything herself in Israil, black women coming together against sexual assault in USA, voice of Furuğ from Iran… Following films can be watch in the Women’s Cinema section:
• 68° and Clear / Dawn Westlake / USA
• Family Reunion / Ísold Uggadóttir / Iceland
• Bazı Kadınlar / Sally Grizzell Larson / USA
• Bir Başka Güzel Gün Daha / Tu, Pei-Shih / England
• Great Lover / Martine Asselin / Canada
• No! For Sexual Assault / Aishah Shahidah Simmons / USA
• Muted / Efsun Dürriye Namal, Özlem Sarıyıldız / Turkey
• Game / Ayten Başer / Türkiye
• Dört Harfte Ölüm / Katie Steed / İngiltere
• Powder / Yeşim Doğan / Türkiye
• The Pornography of Everyday Life / Jane Caputi / ABD
• Helin / Sibel Akkulak / Turkey
• The Women With the Movie CameraKameralı Kadın / Yeşim Aslan / Turkey
• Nobody’s Pet / Ayşegül Güryüksel / Turkey
• Control / Buket Öngen / Turkey
• Chronicles of an Impeccable Sportmanship / Erika Tasini / İtaly – USA
• La / Elif Nur Kerkük / Turkey
• Intimacy of Strangers / Eva Weber / England
• Macedonian Dream / Biljana Garvanlieva / Germany
• Metamorphoses / Netalie Braun / Israil
• Hidden / Laleh Barzegar / Iran
• Sold Out/ Marie José van der Linden/ The Netherlands
• Not For Sale / Marie Vermeiren / Belgium
• To Keep Inside / Inbar Levi / Israil
• Q2P / Paromita Vohra / India
• From Captive Birth To Another Birth / Elif Bezal / USA –Turkey
• Emoticons / Heddy Honigman / The Netherlands
From Women’s Cinema in Turkey in where there were 43 films at theaters in 2007but women directors were outnumbered :
• Blue Eyed Giant / Biket İlhan / Turkey
• Hidden Faces / Handan İpekçi / Turkey
The theme of this year is ‘Women’s History’. We expanded our theme by saying ‘Women’s History: Obedience, Rebellion, Feminism” because women’s history is the history of rebellion and dreaming another world namely feminism as well as obedience. In our theme section, following films getting women’s stories of existence and their dreams together from different countries of the world and from Turkey can be seen; five of the films are from Filmmor:
• One Sings the Other Doesn’t / Agnes Varda / Fransa
• The Life and Times of Rosie The Riveter
• Flowers for Simone de Beauvoir / Carole Roussopoulos, Arlène Shale / Fransa
• We Want Roses Too / Alina Marazzi / İtaly
• Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of The Third Kind / France
• A Page of Women’s Liberation Movement / Carole Roussopoulos / France-Switzerland
• Maquilapolis / Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre / USA
• A Thirst for Freedom / Paula McKeown / Canada
• Suffragettes In the Silent Cinema / Kay Sloan / USA
• Two or Three Things She Knows About Shushanik / Tina Bastajian / ABD
• Gallant Girls / Barbara Teufel / Almanya
• Tupperware: A Bowl of Success / Vali Fugulin / Kanada
From Filmmor:
• Women’s Rebellion / Melek Özman
• MorAgenda 2007 / Birsen Atakan, Güliz Sağlam, Leyla Karagül, Melek Özman
• What is “Honour” / Birsen Atakan, Güliz Sağlam, Melek Özman, Ülkü Songül
• Vakad / Melek Özman, Ülkü Songül
• Yaka-Koop / Melek Özman, Ülkü Songül
11.03.2008 | Editor's blog
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