Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Ankara

Turkey, June 3 - June 10 2021

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The jury

Boyd van Hoeij (Luxembourg), Rüdiger Suchsland (Germany), Esin Kücüktepepinar (Turkey)

Awarded films

As I Want by Samaher Alqadi
(Egypt, Norway, France, Palestine, Germany, 2021, 115 min)

Reports

Out of Limbo with Flying Broom by Esin Kücüktepepinar
When the Camera Becomes a Weapon by Boyd van Hoeij

The jury’s motivation:
“For the original way in which it combines different forms of filmmaking and it investigates the power of the camera to paint a portrait of the women of the Arab Spring in Egypt and their ongoing fight for equality and human rights”.