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)