7th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival March 10–15, 2009

İstanbul Modern Cinema hosts the 7th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheel, which will be held on 9th – 15th March. Presenting 45 films from 15 countries the theme of the festival is “The Body”.

The theme section of the festival contains films with plenty of big needles, sticking it to those who seek to turn women’s bodies into objects of possession, into political arenas, and into battlefields and punching bags, and to those who seek to restrict their bodies by means of prohibitions, laws, feelings of shame, harassment and beatings. However, some of the sharp-edged films in this section also take aim at the fact that the women at times allow their bodies to be constricted, that they sometimes succumb to the charms of the dieting, beauty, and cosmetic sectors.

The women’s cinema section features films about women’s labour, history, politics; women’s struggle to exist on movie sets; women’s experiences, both voluntary and involuntary; and women’s quests and dreams. In other words, these are films that tell reflect women, others, the world of women and women’s perspective through the lenses of cameras held by women...

Together with film screenings, a panel discussion titled “The Journey of Female Body: Cinema, Body, Sexism” will be realized at İstanbul Modern Cinema Hall on 14th March, Saturday at 17.00.