Shorts

I AM WORRIED ABOUT MY FRIEND (ARKADAŞIMI MERAK EDİYORUM), 2014
Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 26’ | Turkish
Director: Bağımsız Kadın İnisiyatifi

During the Gezi Park happenings in Izmir, 38 people were arrested in the solidarity tents in the city’s Gündoğdu Square and in their homes, then put into prison. Four women among them underwent inhumane treatments, including naked strip search, in Şakran Prison. Formed of various women’s organisations, Izmir Women’s Platform organized the solidarity campaign “I Am Worried About My Friend” in order to raise awareness on what these women have lived through. The film is about the campaign with the testimony of women who were released and shares the power and hope of women’s solidarity…

COUNT US IN (BİZ DE VARIZ), 2014

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 45’ | Turkish
Director: Sema Turhan

Being a disabled woman in Turkey is doubled disadvantage – a hard life requiring struggle. In this film, disabled women in Trabzon talk about this hard struggle and being a disabled woman in Turkey through their own lives.

23^rd AUGUST 2008

England | DCP, Color, 22’ | English
Director: Laura Mulvey, Mark Lewis, Faysal Abdullah
Cast: Faysal Abdullah

23rd August 2008 consists of an uncut shooting in famous Al Mutanabbi bibliopoles avenue in Bagdad. While Faisal Abdullah tells the life of his brother until the moment he died in an unsolved assassination on 23rd August 2008, he also reveals a lesser known part of Iraq’s political history, the life of Iraqi socialists who were exiled by Saddam Hussein regime in the early 1980’s.

HATE (NEFRET), 2014

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 45’ | Turkish

Director: Esra Açıkgöz, Hakan Alp

Hate is a film about being the other, giving the floor to 10 people who are not “Turkish, Muslim, Sunni, male” and are the target of official ideology.

NO CORPSE DUMPING (PROHIBIDO ARROJAR CADÁVERES A LA BASURA), 2014

Spain | Blu-ray, Color, 18’ | Spanish
Director: Clara Bilbao
Cast: Maria Botto, Juan Luis Cano, José Cordera

It is 2029. The daughter of Nati and Tomas is about to die… Burial services are very expensive. It is forbidden to burn dead bodies because of environmental pollution. The new law prohibits carrying funerals from cities to village cemeteries. Nati and Tomas don’t know what to do.

CORDELIAS, 2013

Spain | Blu-ray, Color, 25’ | Spanish
Director: Gracia Querejeta
Cast: Jazmín Abuin, Arantxa Arangúren, Aránzazu Duque

Ten women sentenced for different crimes stage a play that might be a therapy for their frustrations and a way by which they might readapt to society. Later on, they would even leave the prison and tour entire Spain.

SAD MONSTERS (SMUTNE POTWORY), 2013

Poland | Blu-ray, Color, 30’ | Polish
Director: Justyna Tafel
Cast: Basia Kubiak, Piotr Glowacki, Iwona Karlicka

A different world from the eye of a young girl believing that she herself is a princess and her father is a knight fighting against evil monsters. As she takes anoter step towards the magical limits of our childhood each passing day, the young girl asks the audience: Is the world composed of what we believe or can it be different from what we believe?

EDIFICE, 2014

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 13’ | No Dialogue
Director: Irmak Karasu

A dance film about a woman’s revolt against the imposed “morals.”

A MAN A WOMAN AND OTHER STUFF (BİR ADAM BİR KADIN VE DİĞER ŞEYLER), 2015

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 7’ | Turkish
Director: Bilen Sevda Könen
Cast: Beril Acar, Rüzgar Memişoğlu

A father and his daughter, who haven’t seen each other for a long time, know little about each other. We witness the tension caused by lack of communication between them during dinners. This ambivalence, however, is nothing more than the relation of a woman and a man who are almost like complete strangers.

COLOR (RENK), 2014

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 9’ | Turkish
Director: Onuray Topraklı, Harun Baysan
Cast: Cankat Aydos

Selim is an accountant in a courier company. He has lived the way society and his family wanted him to until he was 26. After the university and military service, it was time to get married. But there was something going wrong for Selim. On an ordinary day on which her got out of work, took the subway home, watced television and talked about marriage with his mother, the glass finally overflows for Selim.

WILDFLOWER (YABANİ OT), 2014

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 11’ | Turkish
Director: Cansu Boğuşlu
Cast: Agnieszka Findysz, Tomasz Nosinski, Robert Buczynski

On a hot summer night, when a group of people are having fun in a bohemian art celebration, the ambiance suddenly changes – just like the feelings of a couple present there.

MEMENTO MORİ, 2014

Turkey | Blu-ray, Color, 4’ | Turkish
Director: Pelin Kırca

Simply, a part of everyday life.

MANISLAM – ISLAM AND MASCULANITY, 2014

Norway | Blu-ray, Color, 60’ | English, Turkish, Bengali, Indonesian, Arabic
Director: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen

Why does a man in Kuwait create a comics about super heroes which he names “99” inspired by the 99 names of Allah and stories in Quran? Why does a man in Bangladesh travels from one village to the other in order to teach the community how to play? Why does a man in Indonesia encourage other man to wear short sleeved shirts to demonstrations? They all try to change the dark side of manhood in their cultures by means of play.

KIKI OF MONTPARNASSE (MADEMOISELLE KIKI ET LES MONTPARNOS), 2013

France | Digibeta, Color, 14’ | French
Director: Amelie Harrault

The story of Kiki, a plain model, a painter who became the Queen of the Night, an illustrator and cabaret singer, “a source of inspiration” who blindsided well-known avant-garde painters of 20st century.

NEW BORNS, 2013

India| Blu-ray, Color, 8’ | Hindi
Director: Megha Ramaswamy
Cast: Laxmi, Nasreen, Sapna, Usha Devi, Daya Kishan

New Borns is a documentary on women who survived acid attacks, inviting the audience to a journey in the suffocating atmosphere of private and public spaces in a nameless, dystopian city…

BLUE BLUE SKY, 2014

Switzerland | Blu-ray, Color, 9’ | German
Director: Bigna Tomschin
Cast: Anouk Petri

“In summer everybody goes for holidays, probably to the beaches. They don’t know there is nothing there.” Maria stops talking before the summer holiday. She lives away from holiday activities and swimming pool, in her secret world where she is rarely visited.

#SLUTWALKNYC, 2013

USA | Blu-ray, Color, 5’ | English
Director: Therese Shechter
Cast: Jennifer Pozner, Nona Willis Aronowitz, Lena Chen

“Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” This quote by a Toronto police officer galvanized feminist women to create the first SlutWalk in 2011, unleashing a global political movement. Often mis-characterized as a march demanding the right to dress like ‘sluts’, its true aim is to shed the stereotypes and dangerous myths that justify rape and whitewash the guilty. The film documents New York SlutWalk empowering for some and controversial and exclusionary for others.

COUSIN BERT, 2014

Belgium | Blu-ray, Color, 4’ | Dutch,French
Director: Camera-etc

The pig family has been farming for generations. Girls and boys have their own specific chores in this family. Cousin Bert from Holland comes to spend her summer holiday in this farm.

THE CENTIPEDE AND THE TOAD (MILLE-PATTES ET CRAPAUD), 2013

French | Blu-ray, Color, 10’ | French
Director: Anna Khmelevskaya

In a faraway forest, the gracious, lissome Centipede is admired by all the other creatures. Except for an old haughty and jealous Toad who hates him. One day, he decides to get rid of the Centipede…

FOR THE CINNAMON FLOWER (POR LA FLOR DE LA CANELA), 2012

Spain | Blu-ray, Color, 20’ |Spanish
Director: Maria Sanchez Teston

For the Cinnamon Flower invites us to discover how sexism and violence is normalised by means of songs from Medieval Ages to 21st century. During this journey, we notice how we rarely actually hear the songs we often listen to…