International Filmmor women's film festival on wheels: "Women's cinema, women's resistance, cinema of resistance"

Abstract

Women's film festivals, as discursive and material sites of activism, consist of special places within the culture of film festivals. This chapter draws from International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels as a space of feminist representational struggles to fight against gender discrimination by the means of "cinema" in Turkey. By focusing on the programming strategies it is argued that Filmmor Festival claims an inclusive transnational feminist politics with an emphasis on solidarity, resistance, agency, and women's experiences within and beyond the borders. The mobile aspect breaks the Istanbul-centered nature of the festival circuit. The "differential modes of consciousness" by Chela Sandoval provides a framework to trace the possibility of a feminist politics that moves beyond the dichotomial discourses around gender politics in Turkey. © The Author(s) 2020.