Interview between RedCut and Güliz Saglam

She is an independent documentary filmmaker and a video-activist. Her work consists of independent documentaries on social issues like immigration, female workers’ strikes and resistance from different parts of Turkey, as well as solidarity campaigns of women’s organizations with female workers’ resistance movements and the encounters between feminism, female labor and peace activism by women. She documents the campaigns and demonstrations of feminist movement’s and women’s initiative for peace. She is involved in the organization of Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days. She takes part in different video-activism collectives. Her films have been screened internationally at various film festivals. Her first feature documentary film A Dream School in the Steppes has received many awards, including Best Documentary Award of 47th Film Critics Association of Turkey, 9th Boston Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition and 7th Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days FIPRESCI Award.

Women in the Field of Struggle”: Which Women in Which Field?

Women in the Field of Struggle”: Which Women in Which Field?

By Pegah Pezeshki The following text is based on nine films by Arab women filmmakers under the title "The Place of the Arab Woman in Struggle," written by Pegah Pezeshki. This collection, curated by Giovanni Vimercati, was presented at Cryptofiction. When we think of...

Andrea Luka Zimmerman, a Wayfaring Stranger

Andrea Luka Zimmerman, a Wayfaring Stranger

by Armin Etemadi Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s cinema is basically about the empty and un-narrated spaces between the lines. She puts her finger on outcast human beings of whom no traces can be seen in the media, in history, or in any other marketable material, as though...

Interview with Nina Menkes by Mania Akbari 

Interview with Nina Menkes by Mania Akbari 

Editor: Marketa Jakesova  Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America’s foremost independent filmmakers, Nina Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes, Rotterdam,...

There Is So Much I Want to Say

There Is So Much I Want to Say

  by: Markéta Jakešová Introduction Cryptofiction, founded by Mania Akbari, with the curator Giovanni Vimercati, presents a selection of nine diverse films, all created by women directors with a Middle Eastern background that address issues related to Palestine...

RedCut’s interview with Nafiseh Zareh about her short film The Zoo

RedCut’s interview with Nafiseh Zareh about her short film The Zoo

Film Summary: “Rana, your father is gone forever. From now on, we will live together.” This news is conveyed to six-year-old Rana by her mother at the zoo. The night before, Rana had a dream about a deer that had escaped from the zoo, leaving its cage empty. Nafiseh...