13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival
Location | Ankara, Turkey |
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Awards | FIPRESCI Prize Young Witch Award |
No. of films | 100 |
Festival date | May 6–13, 2010 |
Website | http://festival.ucansupurge.org/ |
The 13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival (Turkish: 13. Uçan Süpürge Kadın Filmleri Festivali) was a film festival held in Ankara, Turkey, which ran from May 6 to 13, 2010.[1][2][3][4][5]
This edition of the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, which was founded in 1997 and is organized by Flying Broom with support from the Çankaya municipality in Ankara and accredited by FIPRESCI, had the theme of evil and focused on the problems of women (including prostitutes, migrant women, poor women and lesbians). The festival opened with a ceremony at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Hall on May 6, 2010 at which honorary awards were presented to actresses and , and art director , who attended the special screening of Turkish classic (Turkish: Dağınık Yatak) directed by Atıf Yılmaz. Among those also in attendance at the ceremony were actresses Hale Soygazi and , director , film critic Sevin Okyay, German director , and American director Nancy Schwartzman.[6][7]
More than 100 films were screened in 13 programmes at the Kızılırmak cinema, the Ankara Goethe Institute and the Ankara University communication faculty during the festival. A short film competition also under the theme evil, whose winners were to be announced at the opening gala, and a program titled The Other History, dedicated to ignored identities, and featuring four recent Turkish documentaries focusing on identities that have been subjected to 'evil' by being deliberately alienated and ignored were new features of this edition.[1][3][7][8]
The festival closed with an award ceremony and screening of the winning film at the Kızılırmak cinema on May 13, 2010, at which the FIPRESCI jury, consisting of , and , awarded the festivals top prize to Home directed by Ursula Meier, and bestowed the Young Witch Award upon Damla Sönmez.[9]
Awards[]
Honour Award[]
- (actress, singer and model)[2]
Bilge Olgaç Achievement Awards[]
FIPRESCI Prize[]
- Home directed by Ursula Meier.
Young Witch Award[]
- Damla Sönmez (actress)[9]
Programmes[]
Our Cinema[]
- (Turkish: Dağınık Yatak) directed by Atıf Yılmaz.[9]
Evil[]
- (Arabic: المر و الرمان) directed by Najwa Najjar.
- Perfect Love (French: Parfait amour!) directed by Catherine Breillat.
- Ladybird Ladybird directed by Ken Loach.
- Dark Habits (Spanish: Entre tinieblas) directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
- Or (My Treasure) directed by Keren Yedaya.
- Fuck Me (French: Baise-moi) directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi.
- Judgement in Stone (French: La Cérémonie) directed by Claude Chabrol.
- Story of Women (French: Une affaire de femmes) directed by Claude Chabrol.
Each Has a Different Colour[]
- 10 to 11 (Turkish: 11'e 10 Kala) directed by Pelin Esmer.
- Amreeka directed by Cherien Dabis.
- Between Us (Spanish: Entre nos) directed by Paola Mendoza and .
- She, a Chinese directed by Xiaolu Guo.
- Can Go Through Skin (Dutch: Kan door huid heen) directed by Esther Rots.
- Women Without Men directed by Shirin Neshat.
- (German: Winterstilte) directed by .
- Men on the Bridge (Turkish: Köprüdekiler) directed by .
- Lourdes directed by Jessica Hausner.
- Five Days Without Nora (Spanish: Cinco días sin Nora) directed by Mariana Chenillo.
- (German: Ganz nah bei Dir) directed by .
- My Year Without Sex directed by Sarah Watt.
- Home directed by Ursula Meier.
Golden Girls[]
- White Material directed by Claire Denis.
- Bright Star directed by Jane Campion.
Signe Baumane Retrospective[]
- directed by Signe Baumane.
- directed by Signe Baumane.
- directed by Signe Baumane.
- directed by Signe Baumane.
- directed by Signe Baumane.
- directed by Signe Baumane.
- Natasha directed by Signe Baumane.
- directed by Signe Baumane.
Made in Europe[]
- Adoption (Hungarian: Örökbefogadás) directed by Márta Mészáros.
- Take My Eyes (Spanish: Te doy mis ojos) directed by Icíar Bollaín.
- (Polish: Nic) directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska.
- Broken Mirrors (Dutch: Gebroken spiegels) directed by Marleen Gorris.
- Morvern Callar directed by Lynne Ramsay.
- Struggle directed by Ruth Mader.
- A Common Thread (French: Brodeuses) directed by .
The Best...[]
- The Day I Became A Woman (Persian: روزی که زن شدم) directed by Marziyeh Meshkini.
- The Piano directed by Jane Campion.
The Other History[]
- (Turkish: Eylül Çocukları) directed by and .
- (Turkish: Fırça Darbesi) directed by .
- (Turkish: İki Tutam Saç: Dersim'in Kayıp Kızları) directed by .
- (Turkish: Nahide'nin Türküsü) directed by .
- (Turkish: Sesler) directed by .
See also[]
- 2010 in film
- Turkish films of 2010
External links[]
- Official website for the festival
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ankara's Flying Broom festival against 'evil'". Today's Zaman. 2010-01-26. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Actress Lale Belkıs to be honored for 'evil roles' at Flying Broom". 2010-03-19. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Flying Broom festival to turn spotlight on 'ignored identities'". 2010-04-10. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ "Flying Broom film festival takes off for women's issues in Ankara". Hürriyet Daily News. 2010-04-27. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ "Two Turkish films in the running at Flying Broom". 2010-04-27. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ "Women's film festival kicks off in Ankara". Hürriyet Daily News. 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Flying Broom festival kicks off 13th edition". 2010-05-07. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ "Lesser-known history unveiled at Ankara's Flying Broom festival". 2010-05-11. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Meier's 'Home,' Damla Sönmez win top prizes at Flying Broom festival". 2010-05-15. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- 2010 film festivals
- 2010 festivals in Turkey
- Turkish film awards
- Women's film festivals
- 2010s in Ankara
- 2010 in women's history