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Brazilian master filmmaker Lúcia Murat is coming to the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival. Murat, who will receive the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award during the opening ceremony, will also be honored with a tribute program.
As Türkiye’s first women’s film festival, the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival is preparing to witness a historic moment in its twenty-ninth year. Organized by the Flying Broom Foundation between 2–7 June 2026 at Kült Kavaklıdere in Ankara, the festival will host Lúcia Murat, one of the leading figures of Brazilian cinema and a symbolic voice of resistance against dictatorship. Presented with the support of the Embassy of Brazil in Ankara, the special program will include the presentation of the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award to Murat at the opening ceremony on 2 June. Murat will also attend the festival in Ankara to introduce the three films featured in her tribute selection and to deliver a masterclass.
Beginning her career as a journalist before founding her own production company in the early 1980s, Lúcia Murat has become one of the most significant figures in Brazilian cinema. Over a career spanning more than four decades, she has directed nearly twenty feature films. Having joined the revolutionary movement during her student years under Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985), Murat was imprisoned and subjected to torture—experiences she later confronted through her films. This difficult past has shaped her artistic practice, placing collective memory, the breaking of silence, and resistance to oppression at the center of her work. Murat has also spoken about confronting the sexism and misogyny of the Brazilian film industry during the 1980s through the resilience she developed in her years of political struggle. Her films have been selected for some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. On 3 June, Murat will share the creative processes behind her films and reflect on her experiences with audiences and young filmmakers during a masterclass at Kült Kavaklıdere.
A Panorama of Resistance
The festival program includes a three-film tribute selection representing different periods of the director’s filmography and reflecting her engagement with both cinematic form and social questions. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, the 1989 film Que bom te ver viva (How Nice to See You Alive) confronts the collective desire for forgetting through the testimonies of women who, like the filmmaker herself, survived torture. A Memória Que Me Contam (Memories They Told Me), which received the FIPRESCI Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, examines with irony the tensions between past utopias and present realities among a group of friends who resisted the military dictatorship. Murat’s most recent film, Hora do Recreio (Playtime), blends documentary and fiction through the perspectives of young people aged 14–19 to portray contemporary Brazil, and received the Youth Jury Award in the Generation 14+ section at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025.
The Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival invites all lovers of cinema and the arts to take part in this intercultural encounter and to engage with the testimony and cinematic vision of Lúcia Murat.
29th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival
Dates: 2–7 June 2026
Location: Ankara
