Istanbul Modern Cinema hosts the 13th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels. This year the festival has chosen women’s resistance as its main theme and includes feature films, documentaries, and shorts produced in recent years by women from Turkey and abroad. This year’s Filmmor program at Istanbul Modern presents thematic sections such as “Sexuality” and “Women’s Cinema”, featuring films such as “Regarding Susan Sontag” that won the award for the Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, “Seaburners” by Melisa Önel, and Céline Sciamma’s “Girlhood” performing well in 2014’s festivals. The festival also includes a retrospective of Margarethe von Trotta, a leading director of the New German Cinema movement, who came to the fore with her way of representing women in her feminist films.
GIRLHOOD (BANDE DE FILLES), 2014
France | DCP, Colori, 112’ | French
Director: Céline Sciamma
Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
HANNAH ARENDT, 2012
Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel | 35mm, Color, 113’ | German, English, Hebrew, LatinDirector: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast:Barbara Sukowa, Janet Mc Teer, Axel Milberg
LET THEM EAT CAKE, 2014
USA | Blu-ray, Color, 81’ | Bangla, Bengali, English, French, Guerze, Japanese, Jicarilla Apache, Somali, Spanish, Telegu, Turkana, Turkish
Director: Alexis Krasilovsky
REEL HERSTORY: THE REAL STORY OF REEL WOMEN, 2014
USA | Digibeta, Color, 147’ | English
Director: Ally Acker
Cast: Jodie Foster, Ally Acker
ROSA LUXEMBOURG, 1986
Germany | 35mm, Color, 122’ | German
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast:Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander
SEABURNERS (KUMUN TADI), 2014
Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 89’ | Turkish
Director: Melisa Önel
Cast: Mira Furlan, Timuçin Esen, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar
SISTERS OR THE BALANCE OF HAPPINESS (SCHWESTERN ODER DIE BALANCE DES GLUCKS), 1979
Germany | 35mm, Color, 107’ | German
Director:Margarethe von Trotta
Cast:Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Fruh
THE GERMAN SISTERS (DIE BLEIERNE ZEIT), 1984
Germany | 35mm, Color, 106’ | German
Director:Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rudiger Vogler