Greetings to Çiğdem Mater from the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival
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A greeting was sent to filmmaker Çiğdem Mater yesterday (May 31) at the 25th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival.
Mater is among the seven defendants of the Gezi Trial who have been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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The first screening of "Disturbed Earth", directed by Didem Pekün and produced by Çiğdem Mater, was held yesterday at the Flying Broom.
Halime Güner the president of the Flying Broom Foundation and the 25th Flying Broom Program Director Nil Kural spoke before the movie screening:
"Çiğdem Mater was supposed to be with us to present her film. However, she has been imprisoned in Bakırköy Prison since April 25 for a movie she hasn't made."
"Like our colleagues in the film industry, we too say that 'We are the movies that Çiğdem could not make' and we are sending greetings from Flying Broom."
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"As the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, which has been working to support and spread the voice, effort, and courage of women filmmakers for 25 years, we would like to see dear Çiğdem Mater and all Gezi prisoners among us."
About Flying Broom International Film FestivalThe Flying Broom International Women Films Festival has been organized by Flying Broom Foundation annually since 1998. The festival is an international organization where feature-length, short, documentary, and animation films by women directors from Turkey and around the world are presented to the audiences in a framework of specific themes, panels, discussions, and exhibitions. In addition to the film screenings, local and international directors, press members, and film critics are hosted in Ankara as a part of the festival. The Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival has been the first women's film festival in the world, which has a jury of FIPRESCI. Domestic and international films directed by women will compete for the prize awarded by the jury of FIPRESCI in 2022 as well. You can reach the festival program at www.kadinlarinmirasi.com |
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