• The 29th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, taking place from 2–7 June, officially opened with film screenings at Kült Kavaklıdere followed by an opening ceremony held at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Hall.Among the guests attending the programme were Jurgis Vilčinskas, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye; Pascale

  • Flying Broom remembers—and keeps memories alive. Flying Broom remembers—and refuses to let stories be forgotten. Women’s Memory and Resistance at Flying Broom The 29th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival will bring together audiences with the Turkish and Ankara premieres of 47 films from 23 countries between June 2–7 in Ankara, at Kült Kavaklıdere Cinema

  • Brazilian master filmmaker Lúcia Murat is coming to the 29th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival. Murat, who will receive the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award at the festival’s opening ceremony, will also be honoured with a special retrospective showcasing her work.   As Türkiye’s first women’s film festival, the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival

  • Alin Taşçıyan   Born in Istanbul in 1969, Alin Taşçıyan studied Journalism and Public Relations at Istanbul University. He began his career in 1991 at Milliyet, where he worked for many years as a film critic, reporter, and editor. He has prepared and presented cinema programmes on television channels, most notably TRT 2, and has

  • **29th FLYING BROOM INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL FILM SUBMISSION REGULATIONS*   A) PURPOSE The aim of the 29th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival is to increase the visibility of women filmmakers’ productions, to strengthen women’s spaces of expression and representation within the field of cinema, to support a rights-based and inclusive cinematic approach, and