It wasn’t easy
to
make
a women’s
film festival survive
for
ten years
despite
everything.
Ten years
later,
when
we
look
back
at those
years
and
the
road
we’ve
come
through,
we
see
this:
Despite
tens
of organizations
and
institutions,
our
supporters
that
embrace
the
festival as if
it were
theirs,
this
is stil very
hard! We
want
to
thank
our
sponsors
once
again
who
help
us make
this
festival real.
This year, we
have
seen
149 films
from
four
corners
of the
world.All
those
films
passed
through
Ankara. We
won’t
be able
to
say “don’t
worry”
for
what
you
missed.
But to
watch
films
at least
as good
as these
ones,
to
have
a closer
look
at women’s
cinema,
you’ll
have
to
wait
for
the
11th Flying
Broom
International
Women’s
Film Festival.
This year 14 films
have
been
shown
in “Each
has a different
colour”.
FIPRESCI jury
of Adina
Bradeanu
form Romania,
Penka
Monova
from
Bulgaria
and
Necla Algan
from
Turkey
rewarded
Faces
Of A Fig
Tree
by
Kaori
Momoi
with
this
award.
Jury
explained their decision as followed:
This film affirms women but also
life itself, and the ways in which that life remains imprinted on our
memory. It captures life as both struggle and as joy, and it does that in
a rich and innovative visual language which of ten disrupts conventional
story-telling. Finally,
this film is the directing debut of an a woman who has switched to filmmaking
af
ter
having built a career for herself as an actress in films directed by
[incidentally male) filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa, Shohei
Imamura, Kazuo Hara or Alexander Sokurov. We
have decided in favour
of this film as it discretely asserts the potential and the right of
women to try new life-path s at different moments throughout their
careers, rather than staying stuck with the choices made in their youth.