Flying Broom Int’l Women’s Film Festival kicks off

The 24th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival will bring national and international women's films together with moviegoers until June 11.

A meeting was held for the festival on May 27 to launch the festival.

Organized with the theme "Out of Limbo," the festival awards, which are given to emphasize the importance of women's labor in cinema and encourage a new generation of women filmmakers, will be presented at the ceremony to be held in Ankara on June 4.

Within the scope of the festival, the films will be shown until June 11 with the contributions of the Culture and Tourism Ministry's General Directorate of Cinema and nearly 20 nongovernmental organizations, especially by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and the Ankara City Council.

Speaking at the press conference held at the Gençlik Park, Halime Güner, the chairman of the Flying Broom Foundation, stated that they were happy to see the increasing number of women in cinema and that they would continue to fight for gender equality.

"During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we saw that the burden on women was increasing day by day as well as domestic violence and abuse. Women suffered the burden of the pandemic twice. We saw that women's poverty increased significantly," she said.

Güner said that they were working with the Ankara Municipality's Women Counseling Center for the women who were forced to marry at a young age in a village of the capital and that they saw the problems of women and therefore named the theme of this year's festival as "Out of Limbo."

Festival Director Azize Tan also gave information about the festival program.

"We will organize the first week of the festival online and the second week physically. We will have a total of 16...