TURKISH DIRECTORS:

TURKISH DIRECTORS:

I’m Not Sick Mum!
Turkey, 2009, DV, Color, 27’, Turkish, Kurdish, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Hatice Kamer

A quest of a young homosexual living in Batman for a new life, a new place, where he won’t be discriminated against because of his sexual identity…

Me and Nuri Bala
Turkey, 2000, DV, Color, 42’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Melisa Önel

Based on the life of the "feminist transvestite girl" Esmeray, the film deals with gender, discrimination, otherization and immigration issues in Kars, where Esmeray was born and grew up and in Istanbul, where she currently lives.

The Visitors
Turkey, USA, 2009, Betacam, Color, 65’, English, Turkish Subtitled
Director: Melis Birder

Hundreds of women going every week in one of the 70 prisons in the state of the New York to see their beloved... Sometimes, the journey of these often black or Latin women lasts 25 hours. Some of them have spent every weekend in these buses for long years. The film accompanies these women on their journey and tells their sorrows, their hopes and their stories.

70 80 90, Innocent, Insolent, Enticing
Turkey, 2010, DV, Color, 40’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Melek Özman

Women in the Turkish cinema… Rarely narrator, mostly subject, generally – in films directed by men - Innocent, Insolent, Enticing, but always two-dimensional: "good" or "bad"? How much real is their goodness or malignity? Why aren’t they never listened to, believed or forgiven but always punished? In the film we follow, with Alin Taşçıyan, Arzu Okay, Lale Belkis, Agah Özgüç, Ülkü Erakalın and the cinema audience, what the Yeşilçam cinema sector did to these women and hear the seldom laughters of “enticing women” among the sobs of "innocent women”...

Acrobat
Turkey, 2009, HDV, Color, 6’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Gamze Türkeri

A young man goes to a deserted road to commit suicide when he comes across a mysterious woman.

Eye - then - tea - tea - (Identity)
Turkey, 2005, DV, Color, 3’ 41’’, No Dialogue
Director: Hande Çayır

The film asks this question: What if we watch the film by positioning the 4 actors such as 3+1 (the other or the leader), 2+2 (side to side) or 4+0 (group, community, family, etc...)?

The Puppets
Czech Republic, 2009, Digital Photography, Color, 4’ 32’’, No Dialogue
Director: Özlem Akın

The film is about real and unreal dreams, for which everything can be sacrificed.

Death
Turkey, 2009, HDCam, Color, 19’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Directors: Burcu Aykar Şirin, Uygar Şirin

While spending a relaxing summer in his grandparents’ summer residence, Emre faces for the first time with death and mourning.

One of Us
Turkey, 2009, DV, Color, 78’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Şehbal Şenyurt

The documentary follows people who are affected by schizophrenia and their relatives. It shows their struggle against social stigmatization.

Voices
Turkey, 2009, HDV, Color, 19’ 52’’, Kurdish, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Filiz Işık Bulut

In the period of 12 September 1980 military coup, a slum near the Diyarbakir Prison No. 5 …… The only alive - lived place around the prison! How can this place welcome the detainees’ relatives and sounds coming from the prison? How can one live with the Diyarbakir prison?

A Fatal Dress: Polygamy
Turkey, 2009, DV, Color, 45’, Kurdish, Turkish, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Müjde Arslan

Müjde Arslan: "My aunt Emine married her cousin when she was 16 years old, she was his second wife. Every time she was beaten by her husband, she took refuge in her father’s house but once her wounds healed it was every time her father who took her back to her home. I still remember my aunt Emine coming back to the village bare foot with swollen face and taken back forcibly to her house in tears: this is one of my first childhood memories. Each time she came, she was either pregnant or had a swollen face, sometimes both. At her late 30s, at a time when she had to swallow 8 drugs at every meal, she suffered from the side effects of one of them and had a paralysis” Based on the life story of Emine, the film analyzes the “death dress” of being a second wife, and the feelings of women forced to wear that dress.