19th Filmmor International Women’s Film Festival on Wheels is on its way!

“Cinema, solidarity, and equality can heal us all”

The 19th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels will be held online

June 19-29, featuring panels, online discussions, meetings, and screenings of 48 films.

48 films from all around the world will meet the audience in the 19th Filmmor Women’s Film Festival in the sections of Women’s Cinema, Our Bodies Ourselves, A Purse of Her Own, Under the Rainbow, Local Politics On-site Cinema, Thumbs Up For the 65+ and Feminist Memory.

During the festival starting on June 19 and ending on June 29, all the screenings and events can be streamed with Turkish subtitles by signing up on www.filmmoronline.org, and pre-registering for each program.

Women’s Cinema

Despite all the challenges they face, women are making films all over the world. They continue to use their unique voice and approach to tell the struggles, dreams, and experiences both they and the world have, be it the refugee problems or the menstrual pain, in any form from documentaries to animations.

There are 21 films to be shown in the sections of Women’s Cinema:

  • Here We Are I Hristina Belousova, Dante Rustav
  • Jeroboam I Bianca Caderas
  • The People vs. Agent Orange I Kate Taverna, Alan Adelson
  • Dreams I Berfin Odabaşı
  • For Elsa I Carmen Leroi
  • The Things Around Us I Magda Kreps
  • The Average Color of the Universe I Alexandra-Therese Keining
  • Breaches I Maria Elorza, Koldo Almandoz
  • Jean I Marion Auvin
  • The Edge of Town I Daria Kasperek
  • The Shoreline I Sophie Racine
  • Hunting I Begoña Vicario
  • Bird’s Eye I Merve Özen
  • No Need To Say I Dilara Mutlu
  • What’s up Girl? I Nikki Koppes
  • Radioactive I Marjane Satrapi
  • An Ordinary Life I Efrat Shalom Danon, Gili Danon
  • Do You Think God Loves Immigrant’s Kids Mom? I Rena Lusin Bitmez
  • Objector I Molly Stuart
  • Yael’s Room I Shir Cohen
  • Chasing the Stars I Laura Aldofredi

Our Bodies Ourselves

Against all the rules and norms imposed on women, and all the body shaming, we prepared this five-film section, Our Bodies Ourselves. Each film in this section is a rebellion against life.

The films to be shown in the section of Our Bodies Ourselves:

  • Days Like These I Mawrgan Shaw
  • My Name Is Clitoris I Lisa Billuart, Daphné Leblond
  • Little Ballerinas I Anne-Claire Dolivet
  • Menarche I Alexane Richard, Axelle Vaussier, Pauline Herlin, Adam Chahboun, Teresa Guarnido Flores
  • Ointment I Rebecca Bristoll

Local Politics On-site Cinema

In this year’s one of the special sections Local Politics On-site Cinema, we have discussions as well as five films covering the non-chair ways women seek for in politics and cinema, like The Perfect Candidate directed by Haifaa Al Mansour which tells the story of Maryam’s challenging candidacy battle for the local elections after a bureaucratic mix-up, and 24/7 Street that serves as a local journal of the pandemic in Turkey.

The films to be shown in the section of Local Politics On-site Cinema:

  • 24/7 Street I Filmmor Kahidep Kolektifi
  • 61the Avenue No: 4 I Çağıl Saydam
  • Destroy Yourself Only in Yourself I Nihan Belgin
  • The Perfect Candidate I Haifaa Al Mansour
  • Helix I Hatice Özpınar

A Purse of Her Own 

This section brings together six films about women in a fight to get what’s already theirs, and refuse any “pocket money” from fathers, husbands or the state.

The films to be shown in the section of A Purse of Her Own:

  • Interior Taxi Night I Silvia Rey, Iban del Campo
  • Britt-Marie Was Here I Tuva Novotny
  • Bleach I Büşra Bülbül
  • French Cinema I Galina D. Georgieva
  • Beyond the Gracenote I Henrietta Foster
  • Break Off I Öykü Orhan

Thumbs Up for the 65+

The discrimination against the young was talked about the most during the pandemic, but people over 65 actually suffered the most from the restrictions and violations of rights all over the world. With this special selection, we salute the forgotten ones under the months-long lockdown who already had many problems.

The films to be shown in the section of Thumbs Up for the 65+:

  • Emilia I Cristina Guillen
  • Your Beautiful Eyes I Roni Jo Lola Schneider
  • Isolated I Naama Pyritz

Digital Beings

In this section, we have two films talking about how the virtual world grabs hold of us, and affects us.

The films to be shown in the section of Digital Beings:

  • The End Of Love I Keren Ben Rafael
  • Web I Nataša Glišović

Under the Rainbow

Films against the imposition of binary gender are brought together Under the Rainbow this year.

The films to be shown in the section of Under the Rainbow:

  • Sparks I Netta Shalev
  • One in a Thousand I Clarisa Navas
  • Cousins I Evangelina Montes
  • Beyond the Horizon I Delphine Lehericey
  • Cocoon I Leonie Krippendorff

Feminist Memory

In the Feminist Memory section, we present the Filmmor production film After That June, which focuses on the women’s collective memory of the state of emergency. The memory of the state of emergency that affects the daily life, of the solidarity to defend rights in the state of emergency, and of turning the mourning into resistance. For the past two years, Filmmor has been running visual-oral history studies with kahidep: Women’s

Rights Defenders Digital Platform. The first-year product of The Witnesses of State of Emergency Visual-Oral Herstory Project, After That June, can be watched for the first time ever on the 19th Filmmor!

  • After That June I Melek Özman

Panels, Discussions and Meetings

In these days of ever-increasing struggle and hurt due to the pandemic, we will meet with the Healers on Earth. In the sector meetings series this year, the Female Editors who have been cutting and connecting film pieces for years will be doing the talking, not the ones who just say “We’ll deal with it in the editing, man.” In the Female Animators panel, the Female Animators who give life to drawings will meet. In the On-site Cinema panel, women who go against the long-established way of the so-called heart of the industry, big cities and studios, and make films locally, on-site, even at home will share their experiences. In the Local Politics panel, we are hosting local female politicians from seven cities who started the change from where they live. And again, after the screenings, there will be discussions with film crews and directors.

Golden Okra Awards

Like the previous years, this year also the sexists in the film industry will get their Golden Okra Awards.

Purple Camera

Purple Camera Solidarity Award will again -under the provisions of the copyright law- go to all the films, as “Equal rights, space, wage, and royalties are not gifts; they are women’s rights.”

Since the current circumstances don’t allow us to get together, we hope that welcoming the 19th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival will be relieving and healing for everyone, and that we can meet again under the spell of the silver screen next year.

We hope to see you at the festival…