13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival

13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival

Festival Poster
Location Ankara, Turkey
Awards FIPRESCI Prize
Young Witch Award
Number 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 Lale Belkıs and Gülsen Tuncer, and art director Deniz Özen, who attended the special screening of Turkish classic Unmade Bed (Turkish: Dağınık Yatak) directed by Atıf Yılmaz. Among those also in attendance at the ceremony were actresses Hale Soygazi and Deniz Türkali, director Biket İlhan, film critic Sevin Okyay, German director Almut Getto, 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 Ceylan Özçelik, Dominique Martinez and Kirsten Liese, awarded the festivals top prize to Home directed by Ursula Meier, and bestowed the Young Witch Award upon Damla Sönmez.[9]

Awards

Honour Award

Bilge Olgaç Achievement Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Young Witch Award

Programmes

Our Cinema

Evil

Each Has a Different Colour

Golden Girls

Signe Baumane Retrospective

Made in Europe

The Best...

The Other History

See also

External links

References

  1. 1 2 "Ankara’s Flying Broom festival against ‘evil’". Today's Zaman. 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Actress Lale Belkıs to be honored for ‘evil roles’ at Flying Broom". 2010-03-19. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  3. 1 2 "Flying Broom festival to turn spotlight on ‘ignored identities’". 2010-04-10. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  4. ↑ "Flying Broom film festival takes off for women's issues in Ankara". Hürriyet Daily News. 2010-04-27. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  5. ↑ "Two Turkish films in the running at Flying Broom". 2010-04-27. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  6. ↑ "Women's film festival kicks off in Ankara". Hürriyet Daily News. 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  7. 1 2 "Flying Broom festival kicks off 13th edition". 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  8. ↑ "Lesser-known history unveiled at Ankara’s Flying Broom festival". 2010-05-11. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
  9. 1 2 3 "Meier’s ‘Home,’ Damla Sönmez win top prizes at Flying Broom festival". 2010-05-15. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
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