News Center- We have to take shelter in the power of cinema, which nourishes our soul, enriches our perspective of life, and plant the power of resistance by moving away from the daily routines of everyday life. It is a way of resistance that allows us to hear and to make each other heard. We prepare a short selection for you. Have a good time!

Persepolis

It is a 2007 animated biographical drama film based upon the Marjane Satrapi autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. It premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it co-won the Jury Prize, alongside Silent Light and it won the César Award for Best First Feature Film and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. 

The film is about Iran in the 1970s. The Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.

Shirin

It is a love story between the Sasanian king and the princess Shirin in the twelfth century. The film is a 2008 film directed by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin. The film intimates view of the emotions of 112 Iranian women along with the French Juliette Binoche, who are in a theatre and (seemingly) following the Persian love story. The faces of the Iranian actresses watching the story of Shirin are carefully framed in static images. This is an unprecedented experiment, in that the director does not let his audience see what the women actually see - the audience watches the women and never gets a glimpse of what they are looking at. The film that the women are following in the theatre is present only through its rich soundtrack. 

Libertarias

It is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda. It was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound, and Best Production Manager. The movie is set in 1936 in Barcelona in the midst of the Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War. Militia women Pilar and Floren are joined by former prostitute Charo) and former nun Maria who had hidden in a brothel to escape revolutionary violence against clergy. The film opens with scenes of working-class militants demolishing and burning religious icons, as they shout “down with Capitalism!” and “long live the libertarian revolution!”

Koma Dam

Koma Dam (Group of Roof) is a documentary film directed by Berivan Akelma and Yağmur Cihan. It looks at the lives of women who turn an apartment roof into a public space in Batman province of Turkey. The documentary “Koma Dam” was shot in Batman, which came to the fore with women's suicides in the ‘90s. It is the story of a roof where men cannot enter and women organize a communal lifestyle. The only man who can be the guest of the roof is Charlie Chaplin; cinema. 

Hevêrk (The Circle)

Hevêrk (The Circle) is a short film written and directed by Ruken Tekeş. It was screened in the short movie section of 69th Cannes Film Festival. The movie inspired by true events tells racism, religious and language discrimination from children's world. The film was shot in Hasankeyf district of Batman province. The film looks at an ordinary school day in Hasankeyf. The duration of the movie telling the tragedy that a 7-year-old Yezidi Kurdish girl goes through in school environment is 14 minutes and its dialogues are in three languages, which are Kurdish, Turkish, and Arabic.