The 13th women’s film festival, Filmmor, focusing on the theme “Women’s Cinema, Women’s Resistance, Cinema of Resistance”, will be held from March 13th to April 27th. Around sixty films from 25 countries, all made by women, will be screened in six major towns: Istanbul from March 13th to 22nd; Nevşehir on March 28th and 29th; Bodrum April 4th and 5th; Diyarbakir April 11th and 12th; Adana April 18th and 19th; Izmir on April 25th and 26th. The screenings are accompanied by discussions, workshops, etc.
The films are shown in themed sessions: “Women’s Cinema”, “Our Body is Ours”, “A Purse of Her Own” and “Sex-ual-ity”. Two special sections, “A film show from Margarethe von Trotta” and “A film show from Nahid Persson Sarvestani” pay tribute respectively to a German and an Iranian film-maker.
The “Purple Camera Award” will go to a promising director who portrays independent women, fulfilled and free – totally unlike the stereotypes shown in Turkish cinema. At the closing ceremony the “Golden Okra Awards” will be awarded for the 7th time for films denouncing male dominance in the Turkish cinema.
Source: filmmor.org
