23rd Boston Turkish Film Festival 2024 - Boston Turk Film Festivali

WHO IS MIHRI

Kim Mihri

BEST DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD
BTF's 18th Documentary & Short Film Competition

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JUNE 21 - 23, 2024

kim mihri

Directed by Berna Gençalp

Featuring Feride Çetin, Deniz Türkali, Ece Dizdar

Doc. / 89 min. / 2022 / with English subtitles

Kim Mihri (Who is Mihri) is the painter Mihri’s untold story. Director Berna decides to trace Mihri’s journey from late Ottoman era Istanbul onward to Rome, Paris and New York. Mihri, whose image, artistic work and life story have been unjustly obscured, lost and deformed are revived through interviews and fully animated sequences.

Selected Festivals and Awards

  • Boston Turkish Festival's 18th Documentary & Short Film Competition (2023): Best Documentary Audience Award
  • Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (2022): Best Documentary
  • Ankara Film Festival (2022)
  • International Women Filmmakers Festival, Izmir (2022)
  • Istanbul International Film Festival (2023)

Director BERNA GENÇALP

berna gencalp


Berna Gençalp holds a BA degree in Film and Television from Eskişehir Anadolu University and an MA degree in Film and Television from İstanbul Bilgi University. She has attended international workshops on scriptwriting at Mediterranean Film Institute in Greece and Katapult in Hungary. With her script The Wig Story, she was invited to Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus and Antalya Film Festival. It was her who coined up the name Canlandıranlar for the independent animation film festival that aims to promote animation art in Türkiye. She has held various positions within Canlandıranlar since its start in 2008. In 2014, she presented a paper with the title Construction of the Self in Kerime Nadir and Agatha Christie: I am not your cliché at the international symposium, entitled Women’s Lives: Auto/biography, Life Narratives, Myths and Historiography. Her poetry appeared in distinguished literary journals. Born in İzmir, she lives and works in Istanbul. She is the project designer, scriptwriter, and director of Who is Mihri.

 
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