Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Starts: What to Watch? How to Register Online?
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Postponed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 18th International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels will be held online on the festival website as of tomorrow (June 12) till June 22.
As announced on the festival website, this year, 38 films from several countries of the world will meet with their audience under the sections of Right-Based Cinema, Women's Cinema, Our Body are Ours, Sex-Gender-Sexuality, Feminist Frame, Feminist Memory and Consecutive Films.
Click here for the schedule of the festival
The festival will start with an online film workshop "Make Your Own Movie." After film screenings, film crews and directors will hold question and answer sessions with the audience. An event called "Women with Camera" will also be held to make women visible and discuss their presence in different areas of the film industry. The festival will do the closing with Golden Okra Awards.
All films and events of the festival can be watched free with English and Turkish subtitles by signing up at www.filmmoronline.org.
38 films in 7 sections
According to the schedule shared by the festival organizers, the following films and events can be watched online under seven sections:
Right-Based Cinema
Besides the film program, a panel on Right-Based Cinema is also on the festival program to discuss rights and injustices in the discourses of films and production process with the participation of Ahu Öztürk, Çiğdem Mater, Gülen Güler, Melek Ulagay Taylan and Meltem Cumbul.
Films of Right-Based Cinema:
- Women Who Resist / Chieko Yamagami
- Fundamental: Gender Justice. No Exception. / Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Maiden's Tower / Susanna Lira
- Sofia / Meryem Ben m'Barek
Women's Cinema
"Extracts", "The Women with Her Own Light," "Fakir," "Delphine and Carole," "Feelings to Tell," and "I Love Everything I Hate About" will meet with the audience in Turkey for the first time in this section.
Director of Extract and The Women with Her Own Light Sinai Sganzerla and director of Fakir, Helena Ignez will have an online discussion that will be broadcast on the festival's website.
Films of Women's Cinema:
- A Place in Between / Selin Bonfil
- Acting / Christine Jezior
- Big Questions in Life / Ingrid Hübscher
- Extracts / Sinai Sganzerla
- Da Capo / İpek Efe
- Deep Blue / Sarah Gignac
- Delphine and Carole / Callisto Mcnulty
- Fakir / Helena İgnez
- Feelings to Tell / Wen Li
- Good Morning! / Şehbal Şenyurt
- I Love Everything I Hate About You / Nadine Keil
- Reverie / Ilgın Hancıoğlu
- Tell Me You Still Love Me / Rui Ting Ji
- The Room / Latifa Saïd
- Tell Tale / Fu Yang
- Till The End of The World / Florence Bouvy
- The Women with Her Own Light / Sinai Sganzerla
- Witch Trilogy 13+ / Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
Our Body are Ours
"While patriarchy reproduces norms, films that reverse the norms are in Our Body are Ours," says Filmmor and shares the following films:
- Flora / Chaerin Im
- My Body is More / Susanna Lira
- Singled [Out] / Mariona Guiu, Ariadna Relea
- Swallows / Caroline Emery
- Women with Pretty Little Noses / Handan İpekçi
Sex-Gender-Sexuality
The following films that turn their lens to issues of sex, gender, and sexuality will also be watched online as part of the festival:
- Girls Growing Up Drawing Horses / Joanie Wind
- Italy and This is Water / Anja Franziska Plaschg, Loan Gavriel
- Portrait of A Lady on Fire / Céline Sciamma
- XY / Anna Karín Lárusdóttir
Feminist Memory: Alice Guy-Blaché
This year, Feminist Memory greets the first director of the fiction film in cinema history; Alice Guy-Blaché with The Consequences of Feminism and Falling Leaves, along with Be Natural: Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, which portrays the feminist heritage of the male-dominated film industry.
Feminist Frame
"While leaving patriarchy out of the frame, this year Feminist Frame section welcomes Dutch cinematographer-director Claire Pijman with her films and discussions," says Filmmor. Films of the Feminist Frame are as follows:
- Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Claire Pijman
- My Father Takes Pictures / Claire Pijman
- Later We Care / Claire Pijman
Consecutive Films
Pelin Esmer follows Arslanköy women while they put on a new play after fourteen years in Queen Lear documentary.
After screening of the documentary screening, production, and experiences of women in the field of culture and art will be discussed in Women's Local Cultural and Artistic Production forum. (EMK/SD)
