On November 1-5, 2015 the international “Kin” (Woman) Festival will be conducted in Armenia with participation of female film producers from Turkey.

The festival is initiated and implemented by Legal Gender Cultural Foundatin Liza and this year’s program was included into a grants project supported by European Union funded Support to Armenia-Turkey Normalization Process Programme. It intends to establish professional ties between the female film directors/produces from Armenia and Turkey and promote cultural interactions through exchange visits.

The traditional festival seeks to reassess the role and the position of women in the society and use the cinematographic means to express their issues. The festival promotes the films created by women in Armenia, reveals new names and contributes to intercultural understanding among different nations.

The “Kin 2014” program will include the retrospective screening of films by Gayane Martirosyan, an Armenian cartoonist. A meeting with the director and a screening of her films will be held at TUMO Center of Creative Technologies.

The “Kin 2014” festival will also feature the program of the Turkish “Flying Broom” festival through screening a number of films by directors from Turkey and round table discussions with them. 

Invited guests from Turkey will include directors Nezahat Gündoğan, Azra Deniz Okyay, Tülin Özdemir, Somnur Vardar, as well Özlem Kınal, who is the head of the “Flying Broom” and is included in the panel of festival judges. 

On November 3, a round table discussion on the topic Women in Cinematography will be held at YSU’s Guest House (Mashtots 25).

On November 5, a presentation by Sonia Dzosifor, a member of the judge panel, will be held at the Theater and Cinema Insititue of the Yerevan State Theater, The topic of the presentation is Women and Cinematography.

Art works by Heriqnaz Galstyan, Hasmik Avetistyan and Zara Manucharyan, female artists from Armenia, will be displayed during the festival. 

In total,  57 films from 15 countries will be included in the festival program.

The winners of the festival are:

The Best Film

Salome’s Nose, dir.by Susan Korda, Germany