SCENES I IMAGINE

SCENES I IMAGINE (HAYALİMDEKİ SAHNELER), 2020
Turkey | HDD, Color, 45’ | Turkish
Director: Metin Akdemir

The director believes that the women characters in Atıf Yılmaz’s films Dul Bir Kadın (1985), Kadının Adı Yok (1987) and Yavuz Özkan’s İki Kadın (1992) are involved in an implicit lesbian relationship, and creates a documentary to investigate this hypothesis. As the director investigates this possibility by reaching out to the actors and screenwriters of these films, he simultaneously shoots new love scenes that fulfill this hypothesis, as new potential endings of these films. While examining the women characters that began to become more powerful in the 1980s through a queer perspective, the film questions the sexual policies of Yeşilçam at that time as it simultaneously depicts a new possibility in cinema’s screen of dreams.