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11th International Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival was hold between from March 8 to 15th, 2008 in Ankara.
Aiming at disclosing
women’s effort in cinema; bringing women together so that they can share their
dreams that they have realized in front of and behind the camera; and unifying
women’s speech with the language of cinema and making it widespread, the
festival will bring together films from a multitude of countries and cultures
ranging from Iran and Sweden to Brazil and the Netherlands this year. “Be yourself, create your own dream!” was
the slogan of the year's festival.
The 11th International
Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival started with the Opening Ceremony that was hold at the State Opera
and Ballet (Büyük Tiyatro) at the evening of May 8th. “Flying Broom Honorary
Award” and “Bilge Olgaç Achievement
Award” presented to their winners during the night
Festival Teather: Kızılırmak
The cinema of the 11th
International Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival was Kızılırmak Sineması (Kızılırmak Theather), the only venue for art
films in Ankara.
The screenings and festival activities have taken place in the two halls of
Kızılırmak Theather. The screening hours
were as follows:
Hall I: 10:30 - 13:00
- 15:00 - 17:00 - 19:00 - 21:00
Hall II: 11:00 - 12:30
- 14:30 - 16:30 - 18:30 - 21:00
Festival Tickets Cost 5 YTL
Festival tickets were
available from Thursday, May 1st on at
Kızılırmak
Cinema. Festival tickets will cost the same for both
students and the rest, which will hopefully stimulate cinema enthusiasts to see
more films: all tickets will cost 5 YTL.
Festival
Awards
Handed out by the Flying
Broom International Women's Film Festival annually, “Flying Broom Honor Award” and “Bilge
Olgaç Achievement Award” presented to their winners at the opening ceremony.
Nilüfer Aydan is this year's winner
of “Flying Broom Honor Award."
The Festival is awarding Nilufer Aydan
for the following reasons: Aydan has worked hard in the Turkish cinema for 52
years, adapted to the new Turkish cinema successfully despite having come from
the Yeşilçam tradition, retained her independent identity and free spirit
without endeavoring to be a star even when she was at the height of her career,
never lost her obsession with cinema, and still continues to create original
and different characters in cinema.
In
the name of Bilge Olgaç, the symbol of women who have succeeded in realizing
their dreams despite all the disadvantages of being a woman in the world of
cinema which belongs to men, Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival
accords “Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award”
to Meral Çetinkaya this year for the
following reasons: her strong and impressive performance in the films she has
acted in, her proving the prominence and value of character acting once more
with the unforgettable characters she has created with care and depth even in
side roles, and the effort she has spent in cinema.
Two
films by each of the two great artists whose awards presented to them in person
at the opening ceremony are listed in the festival program.
Each Has a Different Color
Listed
in the part titled "Each Has a
Different Color" of the 11th Flying Broom International Women's Film
Festival, twelve recently released films
have competed for the FIPRESCI
(International Federation of Film Critics) Award.
Consisting
of Angelika Kettelhack (Germany), France Hatron (France), and Burcu Aykar Şirin (Turkey), the
FIPRESCI jury have awarded one of the films that participate in the competition
from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brasil, France, The Netherlands, Iran, Spain,
Israel, Poland, and Turkey. The awarded film announced on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at Kızılırmak Cinema, where
the closing ceremony of the festival will be held, and screened without charge
after the ceremony.
The film “Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame“, an
iranian film, is made by Hana Makhmalbaf, won the FIPRESCI Prize.
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
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