WOMEN’S COUNTRY

WOMEN’S COUNTRY (KADINLAR ÜLKESİ), 2019
Turkey | HDD, Color, 52’ | Turkish
Director: Şirin Bahar Demirel

The documentary portrays two families who choose to leave their countries due to war, uncertainty and injustice and settle in Florida, especially focusing on the women and children in these families. Holding sincere conversations about feelings of longing, belonging and guilt with Fatima and Huda, who have left their families, homes and memories behind, the director shares his own story of immigration to America and his efforts to take root as well as his emotional state with the audience as if he is thinking out loud. Snapshots from his life in Florida are accompanied by archival footage of the discovery of a new planet in space where life is possible.