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Housekeeper
| H O U S E K E E P E R Original title: GUNDELIKCI Do we really know about the housekeepers, cleaning and tidying up the houses constantly? What’s it like to clean someone else’s dirt? Is this their own choice or do they just have to do this? Where do these women come from, and what are their worries, conflicts, consumption habits, lifelong expectations? By raising their own money, do they gain a certain kind of independency in a patriarchial society? They usually live in squatter houses or in the basements, and work at the nearby appartment blocks belong to the upper classes. These are the women who sacrifice their future by working in an informal sector called ‘housekeeping’. As they have no social and health securities, they seek salvation in working continiously 7 days a week and financing their children’s education, so that they can have a proper job. “Housekeeper” focuses on a group of women who work as housekeepers in Istanbul, a metropolis with a population of 12 millions. It reflects the real life of the housekeepers, trying to portrait them as individuals, and revealing the social/cultural/economical conflicts they live in.
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FESTIVALS & AWARDS 14th London Turkish Film Festival, UK 3rd Film Festival for Women Rights (FIWOM), Korea Platforma Video7, Athens, Greece 12. Boston Turkish Film Festival, USA Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan 2nd Women Workers' Film Festival, Seoul, S. Korea 54th Sydney Film Festival, Australia 2nd International Labor Film & Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey Festival of Women’s Films from Turkey, Vienna, Austria2nd International Labor Film & Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 9th Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, S. Korea – First Prize 30th Göteborg Int’l Film Festival, Sweden 3rd International Women's Film Festival, Osaka, Japan 9th International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, İstanbul, Turkey 13th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey 43th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Turkey 3th Int’l Bodrum Film Festival, Bodrum, Turkey 9th Flying Broom Int’l Women’s Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey 4th Int’l Filmmor Women’s Film Festival, İstanbul, Turkey REVIEW “ '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.”
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