13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival
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The 13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival was a film festival
held in Ankara
, Turkey
, which ran from May 6 to 13, 2010.
This edition of the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, which was founded in 1997 and is organized by Flying Broom with support from the Çankaya
municipality in Ankara and accredited by FIPRESCI
, had the theme of evil and focused on the problems of women (including prostitutes, migrant women, poor women and lesbians). The festival opened with a ceremony at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Hall on May 6, 2010 at which honorary awards were presented to actresses Lale Belkıs and Gülsen Tuncer, and art director Deniz Özen, who attended the special screening of Turkish classic Unmade Bed directed by Atıf Yılmaz
. Among those also in attendance at the ceremony were actresses Hale Soygazi
and Deniz Türkali, director Biket İlhan, film critic Sevin Okyay
, German director Almut Getto, and American director Nancy Schwartzman
.
More than 100 films were screened in 13 programmes at the Kızılırmak cinema, the Ankara Goethe Institute and the Ankara University communication faculty during the festival. A short film competition also under the theme evil, whose winners were to be announced at the opening gala, and a program titled The Other History, dedicated to ignored identities, and featuring four recent Turkish documentaries focusing on identities that have been subjected to 'evil' by being deliberately alienated and ignored were new features of this edition.
The festival closed with an award ceremony and screening of the winning film at the Kızılırmak cinema on May 13, 2010, at which the FIPRESCI jury, consisting of Ceylan Özçelik, Dominique Martinez and Kirsten Liese, awarded the festivals top prize to Home
directed by Ursula Meier
, and bestowed the Young Witch Award upon Damla Sönmez.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
held in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, which ran from May 6 to 13, 2010.
This edition of the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, which was founded in 1997 and is organized by Flying Broom with support from the Çankaya
Çankaya
Çankaya is the central metropolitan district of the city of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and an administrative district of Ankara Province. According to the 2000 census, the population of the urban center is 797,109 which swells up to 2 million or more people during the day. The district covers...
municipality in Ankara and accredited by FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
, had the theme of evil and focused on the problems of women (including prostitutes, migrant women, poor women and lesbians). The festival opened with a ceremony at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Hall on May 6, 2010 at which honorary awards were presented to actresses Lale Belkıs and Gülsen Tuncer, and art director Deniz Özen, who attended the special screening of Turkish classic Unmade Bed directed by Atıf Yılmaz
Atif Yilmaz
Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish...
. Among those also in attendance at the ceremony were actresses Hale Soygazi
Hale Soygazi
Hale Soygazi is a famous Turkish film actress of the 1970s and 1980s.- Biography :She was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1950. She studied French philology at the university. She was chosen as 'Miss Turkey' in 1973 and also did modeling for magazines. She made her film debut in a leading role in Kara...
and Deniz Türkali, director Biket İlhan, film critic Sevin Okyay
Sevin Okyay
Sevin Okyay is a Turkish literary critic, journalist, author, regular columnist and a prolific translator. Sevin had been a radio host and a teacher as well....
, German director Almut Getto, and American director Nancy Schwartzman
Nancy Schwartzman
Nancy Schwartzman is an American director and producer. Best known for her activist work in sex-positive feminism, sexuality and consent, Schwartzman directed the 2009 documentary The Line which premiered at the International Women's Film Festival in Tel Aviv and plays festivals and colleges...
.
More than 100 films were screened in 13 programmes at the Kızılırmak cinema, the Ankara Goethe Institute and the Ankara University communication faculty during the festival. A short film competition also under the theme evil, whose winners were to be announced at the opening gala, and a program titled The Other History, dedicated to ignored identities, and featuring four recent Turkish documentaries focusing on identities that have been subjected to 'evil' by being deliberately alienated and ignored were new features of this edition.
The festival closed with an award ceremony and screening of the winning film at the Kızılırmak cinema on May 13, 2010, at which the FIPRESCI jury, consisting of Ceylan Özçelik, Dominique Martinez and Kirsten Liese, awarded the festivals top prize to Home
Home (2008 film)
Home is a 2008 Swiss drama film directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert. The film was the official Swiss submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.-Plot:...
directed by Ursula Meier
Ursula Meier
Ursula Meier is a French-Swiss film director who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême [Angoulême French-language Film Festival] for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm [Best Film] as well as...
, and bestowed the Young Witch Award upon Damla Sönmez.
Our Cinema
- Unmade Bed directed by Atıf YılmazAtif YilmazAtıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish...
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Evil
- Pomegranates and Myrrh directed by Najwa Najjar.
- Perfect LovePerfect Love"Perfect Love" is a single by country music artist Trisha Yearwood that reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
directed by Catherine BreillatCatherine BreillatCatherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...
. - Ladybird Ladybird directed by Ken LoachKen LoachKenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
. - Dark Habits directed by Pedro AlmodóvarPedro AlmodóvarPedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
. - Or (My Treasure)Or (My Treasure)Or is a 2004 drama film starring Dana Ivgy in the title role of Or, a teenager who struggles to be responsible for her prostitute mother Ruthie, played by Ronit Elkabetz...
directed by Keren YedayaKeren YedayaKeren Yedaya is an Israeli filmmaker. She was born in the United States, but her family moved to Israel in 1975 when she was just three. She trained at the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv....
. - Fuck Me directed by Virginie DespentesVirginie DespentesVirginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker.-Life:She settled in Lyon, where she worked multiple odd jobs; including maid, prostitute in "massage parlors" and peep shows, recorded store sales, and a freelance rock journalist and pornographic film critic.She moved to Paris.Her...
and Coralie Trinh ThiCoralie Trinh ThiCoralie Trinh Thi is a French author and former pornographic actress known for her acting, writing and for directing the film Baise-moi . She received a Hot d'Or Honorary Award in 2009....
. - Judgement in StoneLa CérémonieLa Cérémonie is a 1995 film by Claude Chabrol. It was adapted from the novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell.- Plot :La Cérémonie tells the story of an illiterate dyslexic young woman, Sophie Bonhomme , who is hired as a maid by the Lelièvre family. The Lelièvres live in an isolated mansion in...
directed by Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
. - Story of WomenStory of WomenStory of Women is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on July 30, 1943, for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the book by Francis Szpiner. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.-Plot:Isabelle...
directed by Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
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Each Has a Different Colour
- 10 to 1110 to 1110 to 11 is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer’s uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a rundown apartment building that is under threat of demolion.- General release...
directed by Pelin Esmer. - AmreekaAmreekaAmreeka is a 2009 American/Canadian/Kuwaiti independent film written and directed by first-time director Cherien Dabis. It stars Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler, and Miriam Smith....
directed by Cherien DabisCherien DabisCherien Dabis is a Palestinian American director, producer, and screenwriter. She was named one of Variety magazine's 10 Directors to Watch in 2009.-Background:...
. - Between UsEntre nosEntre Nos is a 2009 drama film starring Paola Mendoza. The film, which was co-written and co-directed by Mendoza with Gloria LaMorte, explores the life of Mariana, a Colombian immigrant attempting to survive on the streets of New York City with her two children...
directed by Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte. - She, a Chinese directed by Xiaolu GuoXiaolu GuoXiaolu Guo born 1973) is a Chinese novelist and filmmaker, who uses film and literary language to explore themes of alienation, memory, personal journeys, daily tragedies and develops her own vision of China's past and its future in a global environment....
. - Can Go Through Skin directed by Esther Rots.
- Women Without Men directed by Shirin NeshatShirin NeshatShirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...
. - Winter Silence directed by Sonja Wyss.
- Men on the BridgeMen on the BridgeMen on the Bridge is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Aslı Özge. The film, which tells about the young generation who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul and come to the center of the city to make a living, follows a rose seller, a taxi driver and a traffic police officer whose...
directed by İlksen Başarır. - LourdesLourdes (film)Lourdes is a 2009 film directed by Jessica Hausner. It received the 2009 Vienna International Film Festival's Vienna Film Prize for best film.-Plot:Christine is a wheelchair-using woman with severe multiple sclerosis...
directed by Jessica HausnerJessica HausnerJessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
. - Five Days Without NoraFive Days Without NoraFive Days Without Nora is a 2008 Mexican film directed by Mariana Chenillo.-Cast:*Enrique Arreola ... Moisés*Ari Brickman ... Rubén*Juan Carlos Colombo ... Dr. Nurko*Marina de Tavira ... Young Nora*Max Kerlow ... Rabbi Jacowitz...
directed by Mariana Chenillo. - Close to You directed by Almut Getto.
- My Year Without SexMy Year Without Sex (film)My Year Without Sex received strongly favourable reviews, and was touted by The Sydney Morning Herald as "possibly the best" Australian film of 2009 as well as "the most accomplished" local film of 2009 by The Age....
directed by Sarah WattSarah WattSarah Ann Watt was an Australian film director.Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television at the Swinburne School of Film and Television, Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work...
. - HomeHome (2008 film)Home is a 2008 Swiss drama film directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert. The film was the official Swiss submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.-Plot:...
directed by Ursula MeierUrsula MeierUrsula Meier is a French-Swiss film director who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême [Angoulême French-language Film Festival] for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm [Best Film] as well as...
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Golden Girls
- White MaterialWhite MaterialWhite Material is a 2009 French film directed by Claire Denis and co-written with Marie NDiaye.The films stars Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, a struggling French coffee producer in an unnamed African country, who decides to stay at her coffee plantation in spite of an erupting civil war...
directed by Claire DenisClaire DenisClaire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...
. - Bright StarBright Star (film)Bright Star is a 2009 film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny...
directed by Jane CampionJane CampionJane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...
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Signe Baumane Retrospective
- Love Story directed by Signe BaumaneSigne BaumaneSigne Baumane is a Latvian animator, fine artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was a 2005 Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts...
. - The Witch and the Cow directed by Signe Baumane.
- Teat Beat Of Sex directed by Signe Baumane.
- Birth directed by Signe Baumane.
- The Very First Desire directed by Signe Baumane.
- Tiny Shoes directed by Signe Baumane.
- Natasha directed by Signe Baumane.
- Signe and… directed by Signe Baumane.
Made in Europe
- AdoptionAdoption (film)Adoption is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It tells the story of a Kata, an unmarried female factory worker, who becomes interested in neglected children and tries to adopt one...
directed by Márta MészárosMárta MészárosMárta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...
. - Take My Eyes directed by Icíar BollaínIcíar BollaínIcíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...
. - Nothing directed by Dorota KedzierzawskaDorota KedzierzawskaDorota Kędzierzawska is a Polish director of feature and documentary films.Kędzierzawska graduated from the National Film School in Łódź in 1981 but prior to that had completed a course in cultural studies at the University of Łódź and studied film directing in Moscow for two years.Kędzierzawska...
. - Broken Mirrors directed by Marleen GorrisMarleen GorrisMarleen Gorris is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work....
. - Morvern CallarMorvern CallarMorvern Callar was the debut novel by Scottish author Alan Warner, first published in 1995. Narrated in the first person, it tells the story of Morvern, who wakes up near Christmas to find her boyfriend dead in the kitchen:...
directed by Lynne Ramsay. - StruggleStruggle (film)Struggle is a 2003 Austrian drama film directed by Ruth Mader. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aleksandra Justa - Ewa* Gottfried Breitfuss - Harold * Margit Wrobel - Doctor...
directed by Ruth MaderRuth MaderRuth Mader is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films between 1992 and 2003. Her film Struggle was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
. - A Common ThreadA Common ThreadA Common Thread is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. The film is known as Sequins in the United States.The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
directed by Éléonore Faucher.
The Best...
- The Day I Became A WomanThe Day I Became a WomanThe Day I Became a Woman is a 2000 award-winning Iranian drama film directed by Marzieh Meshkini. It tells three stories, each depicting a different stage in the lives of Iranian women. It premièred at the 2000 Venice Film Festival and won several festival awards during 2000...
directed by Marziyeh Meshkini. - The PianoThe PianoThe Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...
directed by Jane CampionJane CampionJane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...
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The Other History
- Children Of September directed by Hülya Karcı and Meltem Öztürk.
- Brush Stroke directed by Nihan Belgin.
- Two Wisps Of Hair: The Missing Girls Of Dersim directed by Nezahat Gündoğan.
- Hush!Hush!Hush! is the fifth album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson featuring performances by Pearson with Donald Byrd, and Johnny Coles originally recorded in 1962 and released on the short-lived Jazzline label...
directed by Berke Baş. - Voices directed by Filiz Işık Bulut.