Laş û Cih (Body and Place)
October 2023 - May 2024
BATMAN, BITLIS
Laş û Cih is a documentary involving interviews with women of different age groups on their marriage and pregnancy experiences. By listening to their family and life stories, the project aims to question gender roles that are undertaken or resisted by women. Shootings, which will take place in Batman and Bitlis, aim to reveal similarities and differences between the stories of women of two different cities. The documentary plans to bring forward marriage, sexuality and pregnancy experiences of women from both families, and to reveal which points certain partnerships touch. The film also aims to bring gender roles, emphasized through questions, into the public realm by opening them to discussion with women’s actual experiences. Both female directors appear in front of the camera from time to time, expecting to be able to establish a connection by means of cinema, between their own worlds and that of participants.
Adar Taş
She was born in 1996 in Bitlis. She graduated from Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Department of Sociology in 2018. She started working in the Mesopotamia Cinema Collective 2018, where she worked in the area of cinema for 4 years. She worked as coordinator at the 1st and 2nd Istanbul Kurdish Film Festivals. She worked as assistant director in numerous films and TV shows. She currently continues her cinema work individually.
Nalin Acar
She was born in Batman in 1994. She graduated from the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Department of Urban and Regional Planning, with her bachelor’s thesis on space representations in Kurdish cinema. She worked in the Mesopotamia Cinema Collective from 2016 to 2019. Since 2016, she has been voluntarily carrying out activities in the field of urban, space and cinema in non-governmental organizations. In 2021, she produced her short documentary named Taş ve Su, which she wrote and directed as part of the Kulaktan Kulağa Collective Video Production Workshop.
This page is published on 8 December 2023.
