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Flying Broom Foundation, which will organize an online festival this year from May 7-14 with the theme #WeStayedHome, held a press conference via Zoom Meeting.
The press conference opened with a speech by the festival’s Honorary President Türkan Şoray. During the meeting, information about the festival program was provided along with questions such as why an online festival and how we stayed home. The recipients of the Honor Award, Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award, and Young Witch Award, which are given every year, were announced. The announcement of the theme award was left for the opening night.
Why #WeStayedHome?
The door of our “home” will remain wide open between May 7-14… The whole world is experiencing an extraordinary period together. This is not the first time, but this time we are all running away together, trying to close ourselves off, to hide. Of course, these days will be remembered not only as times when the pandemic hurt us all regardless of who it affected, but also as times when solidarity was remembered and everyone, every institution, participated in solidarity in their own way.
“This centuries-old saying is used to demean unmarried women. This time, by saying #WeStayedHome together, we challenge male violence and all forms of masculine dominance in the home during corona days! Now we are all at home, experiencing being at home, staying at home, even demanding to stay at home together. This is a place we know well; with its smell of dust, smell of cake, sound of washing machine, children’s noise, incompatibilities, inequalities, hierarchy, violence and laughter – a place we know very well! Welcome! Now let’s experience home together again; how do we deal with the inevitable, what do we understand from living together, how do we see the interior of the home, how do we position ourselves and “others” there!
Come on, welcome, because this time we all #StayedHome together!
Unlimited, Limitless and Ticketless Festival: 31 Countries 76 Films
From different categories, there are 12 films in the selection from Africa, the festival continent, and 8 films in the selection from Ireland, the festival country. 19 short fiction, 7 experimental, 5 animation, 14 documentary, and 11 feature films will meet with audiences.
In the festival program consisting of films dealing with many themes such as street, home, labor, sexuality, family, child marriage, immigration, the films will meet with audiences under the section titles “Without Pink Without Blue”, “Homeless Stateless”, “In Limbo”, “Breaking the Shell”, “Crime Scene: Family”, “Those Who Cannot Stay Home”, “Ideological Apparatuses of Masculinity”, “On the Street” and “At Home”.
FIPRESCI will be an online jury for the first time
This year, for the first time, a FIPRESCI jury will participate online in the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, which is the only women’s film festival in the world where they serve as jury members. This year’s FIPRESCI jury includes Dana Duma, Helen Robert and Mark Adams.
Honor Award, Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award and Young Witch Award recipients announced
At the 23rd Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival this year, the Honor Award will be presented to Nebahat Çehre and Şahika Tekand, and the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award to Handan İpekçi, Işıl Özgentürk and Sevil Demirci. The Young Witch Award will be given to Cemre Ebüzziya, who has also attracted attention with her successful acting in recent years.
