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Sisters of Lilith

Lilith

Original title: Lilit'in Kızkardeşleri
Directed by Emel Çelebi
Documentary, DVCAM, 41 minutes, 2008

Stories of three women living in harmony with nature through their labours: A sheperd, a fisher-woman and a farmer. The film is praising the strong, productive and unyielding nature of women.

 

UPCOMING FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

10th Astra Film Festival
(October 26-November 1, 2009)

15th Aye Aye International Film Festival
(September 5-12, 2009)

 


To Make an Example of ►

İbret Olsun Diye

 




Original title: İbret Olsun Diye
Directed by Necati Sönmez
Documentary, DVCAM, 48 minutes, 2007

“By the time you receive this letter, I will be dead. I’m not sad. Death is better than living in misery spending a lifetime in prison.
Time heals everything, may be not in every sense, but mostly…”
--Kadir Tandogan, June 25th, 1981
(Executed the same day at 03:30 a.m.)

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UPCOMING FESTIVAL SCREENING

The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, Geneva
(March 6-15, 2009)

 


Housekeeper ►


Gündelikçi



 


 


Original title: Gündelikçi
Directed by Emel Çelebi
Documentary, DVCAM, 50 minutes, 2006

'There's no CV, if they like the look of you, they'll take you on.' One of the attractions of housekeeping work in Turkey perhaps, but equally there's no union, no social security, no insurance. Istanbul's housekeepers, with remarkable candour and dogged humour, speak of tough childhoods, early marriages and lazy or absent husbands. JN

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Theo's Gaze ►

Theo'nun Bakışı Theo'nun Bakışı

Original title: Theo'nun Bakışı
Directed by Necati Sönmez
Documentary, Mini DV, 59 minutes, 2003

11 short journeys through the films of Theo Angelopoulos...

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