The Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival is an annual

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-based

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celebrating women's contributions to filmmaking. Established by Halime Güner in 1997 in order to raise awareness and fight for women's human rights, it has been organized by the

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organization

Flying Broom The Flying Broom ( tr, Uçan Süpürge) is a feminist organization in Turkey. Founded 1996 in Ankara, the organization aims to raise consciousness for gender equality while providing information and training to empower women. Most recognized for ...

. The Flying Broom Women's Film Festival team is headed by Ayşegül Oğuz and Didem Baltacı. Other members of the festival's team are Sibel Astarcıoğlu, and Uğur and Ürün Güner. The festival gives out the Bilge Olgaç Honorary Award and the Lifelong Achievement Award. It is the only women's film festival in the world to give out the Fipresci Award.

2005

The 2005 festival was held from the 5th to 12 May 2005. The opening night ceremony presenters were

Müjde Ar Kamile Suat Ebrem (born 21 June 1954), better known as Müjde Ar, is a Turkish film actress.

and Mahir Günşiray. Sevda Ferdağ was presented the Lifelong Achievement Award by

Müjde Ar Kamile Suat Ebrem (born 21 June 1954), better known as Müjde Ar, is a Turkish film actress.

, her co-star in Ağır Roman. Former Lifelong Achievement Award winners are Sezer Sezin (2003) and Suzan Avci (2004). The Bilge Olgaç Honorary Award was given to Jeyan Ayral Tözüm (film and stage actress) and

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(film critic, journalist, TV presenter, author and the Turkish translator of ''Harry Potter''). The theme of this year's festival was

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was remembered with a special section on her centennial birthday. The nominees for the Fipresci Award included very popular films like Sally Potter's ''Yes'', Mania Akbari's ''

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'', Keren Yedeya's ''Or'', Lucile Hadzihalilovich's ''Innocence'', and Agnès Jaoui's '' Look at Me''. The winner of the Fipresci Award was ''To Take a Wife'' by Ronit and Schlomi Elkabitz of Israel.

2010

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