18th International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels starts!

The International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels starts online with 38 films, q&as, panels, and workshops. The festival starts on June 12, continues until June 22.

18th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels starts online on June 12 until June 22 at www.filmmor.org. All events and film screenings during the festival can be watched free of charge. This year, at the 18th Filmmor Women’s Film Festival, 38 films from tens of countries will meet with audience in Right-Based Cinema, Women’s Cinema, Our Body are Ours, Sex-Gender-Sexuality, Feminist Frame, Feminist Memory, and Consecutive Films sections.

Right-Based Cinema 

This year Filmmor looks to Right-Based Cinema, besides the film program, a panel on Right-Based Cinema is in the festival program to discuss rights and injustices in the discourses of films and production process with the participation of Ahu Öztürk, Çiğdem Mater, Gülen Güler, Melek Ulagay Taylan and Meltem Cumbul.

Films of Right-Based Cinema: 

  • Women Who Resist / Chieko Yamagami
  • Fundamental: Gender Justice. No Exception. / Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 
  • Maiden’s Tower / Susanna Lira
  • Sofia / Meryem Benm’Barek 

Women’s Cinema 

Extracts, The Women with Her Own Light, Fakir, Delphine and Carole, Feelings to Tell, and I Love Everything I Hate About will meet with the audience in Turkey for the first time in Women’s Cinema section where films from all around the world. Director of Extract and The Women with Her Own Light Sinai Sganzeria and director of Fakir, Helena Ignez will have an online discussion that will be broadcasted on the festival’s website.

Films of Women’s Cinema: 

  • A Place in Between / Selin Bonfil
  • Acting / Christine Jezior
  • Big Questions in Life / Ingrid Hübscher
  • Extracts / Sinai Sganzeria
  • Da Capo / İpek Efe
  • Deep Blue / Sarah Gignac
  • Delphine and Carole / Callisto Mc Nulty
  • Fakir / Helena Ignez
  • Feelings to Tell / Wen Li
  • Good Morning! / Şehbal Şenyurt
  • I Love Everything I Hate About You / Nadine Keil
  • Reverie / Ilgın Hancıoğlu
  • Tell Me You Still Love Me / Rui Ting Ji
  • The Room / Latifa Saïd
  • Tell Tale / Fu Yang
  • Till The End of The World / Florence Bouvy
  • The Women with Her Own Light  / Sinai Sganzerla
  • Witch Trilogy 13+
  • / Ceylan Özgün Özçelik

Our Body are Ours 

While patriarchy reproduces norms, films that reverse the norms are in Our Body are Ours.

Films of Our Body are Ours: 

  • Flora / Chaerin Im
  • My Body is More / Susanna Lira
  • Singled [Out] / Mariona Guiu, Ariadna Relea 
  • Swallows / Caroline Emery
  • Women with Pretty Little Noses / Handan İpekçi

Sex-Gender-Sexuality

Films that turn their lens to issues of sex, gender, and sexuality:

Films of Sex-Gender-Sexuality: 

  •  Girls Growing Up Drawing Horses / Joanie Wind
  •  Italy and This is Water / Anja Franziska Plaschg, Loan Gavriel
  •  Portrait of A Lady on Fire / Céline Sciamma
  •  XY / Anna Karín Lárusdóttir 

Feminist Memory: Alice Guy-Blaché 

This year Feminist Memory greets the first director of the fiction film in cinema history this year; Alice Guy-Blaché with The Consequences of Feminism and Falling Leaves, along with Be Natural: Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, which portrays the feminist heritage of the male-dominated film industry with the audience.

Feminist Frame

While leaving patriarchy out of the frame, this year Feminist Frame section welcomes Dutch cinematographer-director Claire Pijman with her films and discussions.

Films of Feminist Frame: 

  • Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Claire Pijman 
  • My Father Takes Pictures / Claire Pijman 
  • Later We Care / Claire Pijman 

Consecutive Films

Pelin Esmer follows Arslankoy women while they put on a new play after fourteen years in Queen Lear documentary. After screening of the documentary screening, production, and experiences of women in the field of culture and art will be discussed in Women’s Local Cultural and Artistic Production forum.

Workshops, Panels, Q&As

The festival will start with an online film workshop Make Your Own Movie. After the film screenings, film crews and directors will hold q&a sessions with the audience. In the sector meetings series to make women visible and discuss their presence in different areas of the film industry, this year continues with Women with Camera. The festival will do the closing with Golden Okra Awards on June 22.

Filmmor celebrates its 18th-year by saying “equal rights, space, wage, and fee are not gifts; they are women’s rights” and shares Purple Camera Solidarity Award to all films in the festival program which holds every film and events free of charge.