"The lives of Turkish women revolutionized on the silver screen
By Dorte on Tuesday, April 29 2008, 12:41 -
By Mireille THORNTON ÇOLAK, Istanbul
Amongst an impressive range of artistic direction, two documentary films at the last Istanbul Film Festival stood out for me. Juxtaposed, they complimented each other with a common theme of encountering and transcending stereotypes of Turkish women as veiled and submissive. So, reactions from the apparently more urbane and cosmopolitan audience, provoked on occasion by the potently counter-intuitive humor of the film’s subjects, were fascinating too."
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