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National Documentary Competition

ANQA

• Director: Helin Çelik
• AUSTRIA, SPAIN / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 91’ / Arabic; English, Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Helin Çelik
• Director of Photography: Raquel Fernández Núñez
• Editing: Sara Fattahi
• Music: Nadim Husni, Victor Jann Nasri Bahdousheh
• Producer: Rebeca Sánchez López, Helin Çelik
• Production Co.: Kepler Mission Films, Helin Çelik
• World Sales: sixpackfilm

World premiering at the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival, Anqa is an intimate portrait of three women who decide to stand up and speak out, who declare that they exist despite the threat of death. It is an exploration of a woman’s inner life, and in its most extreme, of the painful traces memory carries when the outer world is at an impasse.  Although the film places emphasis on the inner conflicts of the women, the socio-political climate of the era they live in is also tangible. The narration subtly ties together the crisis of thought in confrontation with misogyny and systemic, patriarchal violence, revealing the inextricability of political and social life from the life of the individual. Taking the daily lives of its characters in isolation as a starting point, the film revolves around the themes of life, death, and the trauma that connects them.

This film is screened with the generous support of Österreichisches Kulturforum Istanbul.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.