Curb Your Manspreading, Please June 21–July 1, 2018

Istanbul Modern Cinema presents a selection of films from this year’s leading female directors. During the recent period, issues regarding women’s rights and the discrimination of women within the film industry have significantly shaped current affairs headlines, while we have witnessed the “MeToo” movement leaving its mark on this year’s Academy Awardsand motivating the women’s protests during the 71st Cannes Film Festival as well as the birth of many solid women’s films and a renewed solidarity of women. Istanbul Modern Cinema’s “Curb Your Manspreading Please” program consists of women’s films that come from a variety of different languages and geographies ranging from Japan to France and from Afghanistan to Iran, and is an acknowledgment, an emphasis and a show of support to this solidarity of women that is present in the media and daily life much more than before. Consisting of 11 films, the program selection includes Pelin Esmer’s fourth feature film Something Useful, Naomi Kawase’s gentle and thoughtful film Radiance, a 2017 hit Western, and the animation favorite The Breadwinner.