25th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival
Venues: Büyülü Fener Sineması, Doğan Taşdelen Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi-
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The 25th Flying Broom Women's Film Festival will be held in Ankara between 26 May - 5 June at the Büyülü Fener Kızılay Theaters and Doğan Taşdelen Contemporary Arts Center, with the theme of Women's Heritage. Featuring new films by women directors, the festival will be bringing to the Ankara audience more than 60 fiction and documentary films from around the world, from Indonesia to Vietnam, from Argentina to India.
26 May - 05 June 18:00
Büyülü Fener
Doğan Taşdelen Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
Schedule
Stop Zemlia
- Kateryna Gornostai
- 122'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
The introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she hangs around with Yana and Senia, who...
Bitter Sweet
- Didem Şahin
- 71'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
A while after moving from Turkey to Germany in 1963 as a guest worker, Nermin takes her three daughters that...
Children of the Mist
- Hà Lệ Diễm
- 92'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to...
Carajita
- Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra
- 86'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
For Sara, her nanny of many years, Yasira, is the most important person she can relate to. The young adult...
Feature Film About Life
- Dovilė Šarutytė
- 100'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Dovile’s life is shaken by her father’s death. But there is no time to mourn, as she must urgently organize...
Mafifa
- Daniela Muñoz Barroso
- 77'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Filmmaker Daniela Muñoz Barroso, who is almost completely deaf, wants to discover the identity of the remarkable musician Mafifa, who...
A Song to Long For
- Cahide Sonku
- Mustafa Sami Ayanoğlu
- Orhon Murat Arıburnu
- 90’
- Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
Zeki Müren and Cahide Sonku share the leading roles in A Song to Long For, filmed in 1953. Telling the...
Alcarràs
- Carla Simón
- 120'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
For as long as they can remember, the Solé family has spent every summer picking the peaches in their orchard...
Both Sides Of The Blade
- Claire Denis
- 116’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Paris, and already winter. Sarah and Jean love each other. They have lived together for several years. Their love makes...
Playground
- Laura Wandel
- 72’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Seven-year-old Nora and her big brother Abel are back to school. When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids,...
Zuhal
- Nazlı Elif Durlu
- 88'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Zuhal, a successful lawyer living in a central neighborhood of İstanbul, begins to hear the sound of a cat meowing...
Carajita
- Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra
- 86'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
For Sara, her nanny of many years, Yasira, is the most important person she can relate to. The young adult...
Children of the Mist
- Hà Lệ Diễm
- 92'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to...
Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
- Celeste Bell
- 96'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the...
Feature Film About Life
- Dovilė Šarutytė
- 100'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Dovile’s life is shaken by her father’s death. But there is no time to mourn, as she must urgently organize...
Zuhal
- Nazlı Elif Durlu
- 88'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Zuhal, a successful lawyer living in a central neighborhood of İstanbul, begins to hear the sound of a cat meowing...
Playground
- Laura Wandel
- 72’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Seven-year-old Nora and her big brother Abel are back to school. When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids,...
Mafifa
- Daniela Muñoz Barroso
- 77'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Filmmaker Daniela Muñoz Barroso, who is almost completely deaf, wants to discover the identity of the remarkable musician Mafifa, who...
This Is Not Me
- Zekiye Kaçak Bakırhan
- Jeyan Kader Gülşen
- 92'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
This Is Not Me tells the story of a group of unhappy gay men who hide their sexual orientation and...
Bitter Sweet
- Didem Şahin
- 71'
- Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
A while after moving from Turkey to Germany in 1963 as a guest worker, Nermin takes her three daughters that...
Both Sides Of The Blade
- Claire Denis
- 116’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Paris, and already winter. Sarah and Jean love each other. They have lived together for several years. Their love makes...
Alcarràs
- Carla Simón
- 120'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
For as long as they can remember, the Solé family has spent every summer picking the peaches in their orchard...
Yuni
- Kamila Andini
- 95'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Yuni is a teenage girl smart with big dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask to...
The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet
- Metin Erksan
- 86’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet tells the story of a young woman whose father has been murdered...
Gerda
- Natalya Kudryashova
- 111'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Young sociology student Lera works as a pollster at day, and as a stripper at night under the name Gerda....
Stop Zemlia
- Kateryna Gornostai
- 122'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
The introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she hangs around with Yana and Senia, who...
Vera Dreams of the Sea
- Kaltrina Krasniqi
- 87'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive...
Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
- Celeste Bell
- 96'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the...
Blue Moon
- Alina Grigore
- 85'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Irina, who struggles to achieve higher education and escape the violence of her extended dysfunctional family, is a young woman...
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
- Nina Menkes
- 108'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Building on her influential cinematic talk, Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Cinema, film director Nina Menkes takes us...
This is Not Me
- Zekiye Kaçak Bakırhan
- Jeyan Kader Gülşen
- 92'
- Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
This Is Not Me tells the story of a group of unhappy gay men who hide their sexual orientation and...
Sonne
- Kurdwin Ayub
- 88'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A video filmed by three young girls of different ethnicities living in Vienna, in which they dance to R.E.M.’s Losing...
Robe of Gems
- Natalia López Gallardo
- 118'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
In the midst of a divorce, Isabel leaves the city with her two children for her family’s country house. She...
Small Body
- Laura Samani
- 89’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A small island in northeastern Italy, winter of early 1900. Young Agata’s baby is stillborn. In the Catholic tradition, an...
Kardeş Kurşunu
- Lütfi Ömer Akad
- 107’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Kardeş Kurşunu tells the story of the love triangle around two brothers who become enemies as they fall in love...
Sonne
- Kurdwin Ayub
- 88'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A video filmed by three young girls of different ethnicities living in Vienna, in which they dance to R.E.M.’s Losing...
Blue Moon
- Alina Grigore
- 85'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Irina, who struggles to achieve higher education and escape the violence of her extended dysfunctional family, is a young woman...
La Chica Nueva
- Micaela Gonzalo
- 77’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego in southernmost Argentina, to join her half-brother Mariano....
Incomplete Sentences
- Adar Bozbay
- 58’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
World-renowned author and activist Aslı Erdoğan subsides into silence after fleeing Turkey for Germany. Incomplete Sentences examines the literature of...
Robe of Gems
- Natalia López Gallardo
- 118'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
In the midst of a divorce, Isabel leaves the city with her two children for her family’s country house. She...
Gerda
- Natalya Kudryashova
- 111'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Young sociology student Lera works as a pollster at day, and as a stripper at night under the name Gerda....
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
- Nina Menkes
- 108'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Building on her influential cinematic talk, Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Cinema, film director Nina Menkes takes us...
Vera Dreams of the Sea
- Kaltrina Krasniqi
- 87'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive...
That Weekend
- Mara Pescio
- 67’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Julia returns to her hometown and her neighborhood which she left years ago. Officially, the reason of this return is...
Piano Girl
- Murat Saraçoğlu
- 100’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
A Malakan who resettled from Russia after the Russo-Turkish War in his childhood, Mişka operated the old water-powered mill in...
Small Body
- Laura Samani
- 89’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A small island in northeastern Italy, winter of early 1900. Young Agata’s baby is stillborn. In the Catholic tradition, an...
The Blue Inmates
- Zeina Daccache
- 75’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
The film follows inmates from Roumieh Prison in Lebanon as they produce a play about their fellow prisoners who suffer...
This Rain Will Never Stop
- Alina Gorlova
- 104’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
This Rain Will Never Stop is a documentary that follows the 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he flees the war in...
Anais In Love
- Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- 98’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel,...
Rebel Dykes
- Harri Shanahan
- 92’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Rebel Dykes tells the story of a group of young dykes who find each other in post-punk London and carve...
Souvenir
- Joanna Hogg
- 115’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
A shy but ambitious film student begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with...
Incomplete Sentences
- Adar Bozbay
- 58’
- Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
World-renowned author and activist Aslı Erdoğan subsides into silence after fleeing Turkey for Germany. Incomplete Sentences examines the literature of...
I Want to Talk About Duras
- Claire Simon
- 95’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A man involved in a passionate relationship with a celebrated writer of 30 years his senior needs to talk. He...
Souvenir: Part II
- Joanna Hogg
- 107’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love...
Stateless
- Esra Yıldız
- 66’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Stateless is the story of opposition journalists Doğan Özgüden and İnci Tuğsavul, who were forced to leave Turkey after the...
Körfez
- Emre Yeksan
- 100’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
After the misery of a painful divorce and unemployment, Selim, in his mid-thirties, moves back with his upper middle-class family...
Rebel Dykes
- Harri Shanahan
- 92’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Rebel Dykes tells the story of a group of young dykes who find each other in post-punk London and carve...
This Rain Will Never Stop
- Alina Gorlova
- 104’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
This Rain Will Never Stop is a documentary that follows the 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he flees the war in...
First Death of Joanna
- Cristiane Oliveira
- 91’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70...
The Blue Inmates
- Zeina Daccache
- 75’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
The film follows inmates from Roumieh Prison in Lebanon as they produce a play about their fellow prisoners who suffer...
Anais In Love
- Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- 98’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel,...
The Island
- Anca Damian
- 84’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Discover a musical fable on the Robinson Crusoe myth: The Little Prince meets Monty Python. Robinson is a doctor and...
Clara Sola
- Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
- 106’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Clara, 40, is believed to have a special connection to God. As a “healer,” she sustains a family and a...
As In Heaven
- Tea Lindeburg
- 85’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life changes forever. She is the eldest of her siblings,...
A Tale of Love and Desire
- Leyla Bouzid
- 103’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
The 18-year-old Ahmed, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At university, he meets Farah, a...
Thou Gild’st The Even
- Onur Ünlü
- 107’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Cemal is a man living in the town of Akhisar in Manisa with his father, and runs his own barber...
A Night of Knowing Nothing
- Payal Kapadia
- 96'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Through these letters, we...
Yuni
- Kamila Andini
- 95'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Yuni is a teenage girl smart with big dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask to...
That Weekend
- Mara Pescio
- 67’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Julia returns to her hometown and her neighborhood which she left years ago. Officially, the reason of this return is...
Clara Sola
- Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
- 106’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Clara, 40, is believed to have a special connection to God. As a “healer,” she sustains a family and a...
Taming the Garden + Our Ark
- Salome Jashi
- 92’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A powerful and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings,...
Heskif
- Elif Yiğit
- 52'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Heskif is a documentary on Hasankeyf, a district of the Batman province of Turkey, with a 12,000-year history, which was...
Vatansız
- Esra Yıldız
- 66’
- Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
Stateless is the story of opposition journalists Doğan Özgüden and İnci Tuğsavul, who were forced to leave Turkey after the...
Celts
- Milica Tomovic
- 106’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Belgrade, 1993, Marijana throws a sleepover party for her daughter’s eighth birthday, with family and fellow parents attending. Grabbing the...
Unclenching the Fists
- Kira Kovalenko
- 97’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival last year, Unclenching the Fists is the story...
A Night of Knowing Nothing
- Payal Kapadia
- 96'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Through these letters, we...
Heskif
- Elif Yiğit
- 52'
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Heskif is a documentary on Hasankeyf, a district of the Batman province of Turkey, with a 12,000-year history, which was...
La Chica Nueva
- Micaela Gonzalo
- 77’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego in southernmost Argentina, to join her half-brother Mariano....
Taming The Garden + Our Ark
- Salome Jashi
- 92’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
A powerful and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings,...
A Tale of Love and Desire
- Leyla Bouzid
- 103’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
The 18-year-old Ahmed, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At university, he meets Farah, a...
On This Happy Note
- Tamar Tal Alati
- 67’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller,...
Medusa
- Anita Rocha da Silveira
- 127’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Mariana, 21 years old, belongs to a world where she must do her utmost to keep up the appearance of...
Celts
- Milica Tomovic
- 106’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Belgrade, 1993, Marijana throws a sleepover party for her daughter’s eighth birthday, with family and fellow parents attending. Grabbing the...
Maixabel
- Icíar Bollaín
- 115’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband Juan María Jaúregui was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an...
Witch Triology 15+
- Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
- 71’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
“Women suffocating under violence cry out their wounds and their cures from prisons.” Witch Trilogy 15+ tells the stories of...
Island
- Anca Damian
- 84’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Discover a musical fable on the Robinson Crusoe myth: The Little Prince meets Monty Python. Robinson is a doctor and...
On this happy note
- Tamar Tal Alati
- 67’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller,...
Unclenching the Fists
- Kira Kovalenko
- 97’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival last year, Unclenching the Fists is the story...
Short Films from Turkey 1
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Aile Tablosu filmi için tıklayınız. Cemile filmi için tıklayınız. Büyük İstanbul Depresyonu filmi için tıklayınız. Plastik Rüya filmi için tıklayınız....
Maxiabel
- Icíar Bollaín
- 115’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband Juan María Jaúregui was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an...
Short Films from Turkey 2
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Eat Your Catfish
- Noah Amir Arjomand
- Adam Isenberg
- Senem Tüzen
- 74’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Years with ALS have left Kathryn paralyzed and needing 24-hour care. With her mind intact and having opted for mechanical...
Souvenir
- Joanna Hogg
- 115’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A shy but ambitious film student begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with...
Witch Triology 15+
- Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
- 71’
- Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
“Women suffocating under violence cry out their wounds and their cures from prisons.” Witch Trilogy 15+ tells the stories of...
Souvenir: Part II
- Joanna Hogg
- 107’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love...
Medusa
- Anita Rocha da Silveira
- 127’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Mariana, 21 years old, belongs to a world where she must do her utmost to keep up the appearance of...
First Death of Joanna
- Cristiane Oliveira
- 91’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70...
Short Films from Turkey 1
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Aile Tablosu filmi için tıklayınız. Cemile filmi için tıklayınız. Büyük İstanbul Depresyonu filmi için tıklayınız. Plastik Rüya filmi için tıklayınız....
I Want To Talk About Duras
- Claire Simon
- 95’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A man involved in a passionate relationship with a celebrated writer of 30 years his senior needs to talk. He...
Short Films from Turkey 2
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
As In Heaven
- Tea Lindeburg
- 85’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life changes forever. She is the eldest of her siblings,...
Eat Your Catfish
- Noah Amir Arjomand
- Adam Isenberg
- Senem Tüzen
- 74’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Years with ALS have left Kathryn paralyzed and needing 24-hour care. With her mind intact and having opted for mechanical...
Closing Ceremony
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet Of Love
- Nicolette Krebitz
- 104’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4
Anna is 60, and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own, but has a friend...
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet Of Love
- Nicolette Krebitz
- 104’
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 1
Anna is 60, and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own, but has a friend...
Special Screening: FIPRESCI Award Winner
- Büyülü Fener Kızılay Salon 4






Cinema returns to theaters
As the Flying Broom team, it is our mission to help reinvigorate the unique experience of watching films in the film theater, which has been disrupted by the pandemic, and to provide a platform that will hopefully enable women filmmakers and audiences to engage in dialogue. We believe that this dialogue will be empowering, and will encourage a spirit of solidarity.