Özge Özdüzen

Mocumentaries can be considered as attempts at challenging the prevalent assumption of “seeing is believing”.

Evrim Kaya

Autumn is the epilogue of a story; it is the epic conclusion made by the young Turkish director Özcan Alper after eight years...

Montse Romaní

The socio-political events of 1968 caused an impact in the West, thanks to the liberation movements, which brought with them an understanding of the particularity, the difference and the specificity of the social and intellectual aspects that have defined postmodern thought.

Montse Romaní and Virginia Villaplana

The film and video programme Prologue. Towards experimental ethnographies which we present in this year’s Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival, has its origin in meditations on geopolitical aesthetics, gender and globalisation which different audio-visual narrators have been producing in localised social and cultural contexts since the Eighties.

Evrim Kaya

Tokyo Story is an example perfectly characterizing Ozu’s world, but there is more. It also characterizes our world...

Seray Genç

The Small Town originates from a childhood memory of the director, and the feeling that this memory resurrects. The security feeling of a child who falls asleep on the field as his family has a long conversation on the side of a fire till dawn.

Yusuf Güven

The stories of Ceylan depict both the simple life of the countryman with his worries about the future and the life, and the loneliness and alienation of the middle class. Confrontation of those two main characters forms the tension.

Aylin Sayın

Nair turns her camera to the daily life during the flurry of the wedding preparations. Beside the enormous expenses for the wedding, she displays the other face of the city in poverty. And it is what the “original” is for the film.