Within cinema, women look at the world from the perspectives of their own lives, experiences, happiness and sadness; but they can always f ind a way to smile. Despite all the s truggles during our lifetime, we are always going to laugh.
Flying Broom Programme Team
The Play
(Turkey, 2005, document ary, 35 mm, 73’; Turkish, Slovene subtitling)
Directed by: Pelin Esmer; Screenplay: Ummuye, Behiye, Ummu, Fatma K., Cennet, Saniye, Fatma F.
This documentary film portrays the harsh everyday life of women from a mountain village in southern Turkey. These women want to write and perform a play about their life stories; the camera follows the development of the play, and the changes these women experience in the course of making the documentary. The Play has received several accolades, including Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, as well as Best Documentary Film in Trieste and at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival.
Fat Woman in the Land of the Thin
(Turkey, 2007, short film, beta, 14’; Turkish, Slovene subtitling)
Directed by: Zeynep Arisoy; Screenplay: Ezgi Kizmaz
Every year a screenplay for a short film story is selected by a jury from among a shortlist of ten; the winning script is made into a film by Filma-cass, one of Turkey’s leading production companies, and screened at the Flying Broom festival the following year. Winner of the 9th Flying Broom Festival Fat Woman in the Land of the Thin relates the story of the Tutku* pastry shop, a family business run by Rüya, a large woman who enjoys baking cakes as much as she and her customers enjoy consuming them. A succession of patrons - each of whom is even fatter than the previous one - one day find themselves together enjoying cakes in the pastry shop; however, everything is about to change: a coup is staged and the new regime proscribes the consumption of high-calorie products, such as cake…
* »Tutku« lit erally means »passion« in Turkish.
