Director: Nebiye Arı
Turkey, 2020, 62’
Turkish with English subtitles
The documentary starts with the story of Konca Kuriş, Turkey’s first Muslim feminist who was kidnapped and murdered by the Kurdish Hezbollah because her women-centric reading of Islam was viewed as radical. It displays the story of Muslim women’s becoming feminists since the 1990s and the recent rise of Islamic feminism with narration by eleven Muslim feminists. These Muslim feminists explain the impact of the headscarf ban in Turkey on the development of Islamic feminism, the challenges Muslim women face within the feminist movement, the influence of men-centric interpretations of Islam on women’s lives, and women’s search for alternative interpretations. The story ends with the participation of Muslim feminists in the events on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
As the New Year approaches, Pera Film presents an alternative watchlist of 10 movies, ranging from Hollywood's timeless classics to memorable examples of modern cinema.
In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
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