The Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival is an annual
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
-based
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online.
Films may be of recent ...
celebrating women's contributions to filmmaking.
Established by
Halime Güner in 1997 in order to raise awareness and fight for
women's human rights, it has been organized by the
women's empowerment
Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, ...
organization
Flying Broom
The Flying Broom () is a feminist organization in Turkey. Founded in 1996 in Ankara, the organization aims to raise consciousness for gender equality while providing information and training to empower women. Most recognized for its annual Inte ...
.
The Flying Broom Women's Film Festival team is headed by Ayşegül Oğuz and Didem Baltacı. Other members of the festival's team are Sibel Astarcıoğlu, and Uğur and Ürün Güner. The festival gives out the Bilge Olgaç Honorary Award and the Lifelong Achievement Award. It is the only women's film festival in the world to give out the Fipresci Award.
2005
The 2005 festival was held from the 5th to 12 May 2005. The opening night ceremony presenters were
Müjde Ar
Kamile Suat Ebrem (born 21 June 1954), better known as Müjde Ar, is a Turkish film actress.
Biography
She is the oldest daughter of the dramaturge and song writer Aysel Gürel. She left school at the age of 20, while she was pursuing a German ...
and Mahir Günşiray. Sevda Ferdağ was presented the Lifelong Achievement Award by
Müjde Ar
Kamile Suat Ebrem (born 21 June 1954), better known as Müjde Ar, is a Turkish film actress.
Biography
She is the oldest daughter of the dramaturge and song writer Aysel Gürel. She left school at the age of 20, while she was pursuing a German ...
, her co-star in Ağır Roman.
Former Lifelong Achievement Award winners are Sezer Sezin (2003) and Suzan Avci (2004). The Bilge Olgaç Honorary Award was given to Jeyan Ayral Tözüm (film and stage actress) and
Sevin Okyay
Sevin Okyay (born 11 November 1942, Istanbul) is a Turkish critic, journalist, author, columnist, radio host and translator. Best known for her translations of the ''Harry Potter'' books, Okyay is Turkey's first female film critic. She writes ab ...
(film critic, journalist, TV presenter, author and the Turkish translator of ''Harry Potter'').
The theme of this year's festival was
love
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.
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress and a premier star during Hollywood's Silent film, silent and early Classical Hollywood cinema, golden eras.
Regarded as one of the g ...
was remembered with a special section on her centennial birthday. The nominees for the Fipresci Award included very popular films like Sally Potter's ''Yes'', Mania Akbari's ''
20 Fingers'', Keren Yedeya's ''Or'', Lucile Hadzihalilovich's ''Innocence'', and
Agnès Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui (; born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.
Jaoui has won six César Awards, three Lumière Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has received numerous other ...
's ''
Look at Me''. The winner of the Fipresci Award was ''To Take a Wife'' by Ronit and Schlomi Elkabitz of Israel.
2010
See also
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List of women's film festivals
Women's film festivals are film events geared to promote women in the film industry. Women’s film festivals began due to the lack of female voice within the film industry. To combat this hindrance, their own film festival was designed. Most women ...
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Women's Cinema
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It is also a variety o ...
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