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THE
PLAY (Oyun)
- Winner
of the Best Documentary Award in the
- 11th
Boston Turkish Festival Documentary & Short Film
Competition
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- Saturday,
March 31 11:00am
- Remis
Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington
Avenue, Boston
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- Directed by Pelin
Esmer
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Documentary. 2005, 70 min. 35mm.
In Turkish with English subtitles
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Ummuye,
Behiye, Ummu, Fatma K., Cennet, Saniye,
Fatma F., Zeynep and Nesime are nine peasant women
living in Arslankoy, a mountain village in southern
Turkey. They spend their days working hard in the
fields, on the construction site and at home. To
lighten the burden of life, these women come
together for a wholly different reason. They intend
to write and perform a play based on their own life
stories. They gather at the local high school, which
they were shy of even stepping into until that day
and they work with the principal, Mr. Huseyin. They
reveal their life stories that they were even afraid
to tell themselves and confront. For days on end,
under the curious gazes of the village men, they
work tirelessly, discuss and create with much fun a
play, "The Outcry of Women!" This
documentary is about the development process of this
play and the change the women went through during
this period.
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- Selected
Festivals and Awards (2006):
- Boston
Turkish Festival's Documentary & Short Film
Competition: Best Documentary Award
- Tribeca:
Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award
Trieste, Best Documentary Film Award
Créteil Women Films, Best Documentary Film Award
Navarra Punto de Vista, Audience Award
Nürnberg FF Turkey/Germany, Special Jury Prize
Vitoria New European Film, Human Rights Award
Adana Golden Boll, The In Memoriam Yilmaz Guney Award
Centre Médittérrannéen de Comunication Audiovisuelle
The Best Mediterranean Documentary Grand Prix, FR3 and Algerian TV Awards
Turkish Cinema Writers Assoc. Awards: Special Jury Prize
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