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24th BOSTON TURKISH FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL

BETWEEN DELICATE AND VIOLENT

Zarafet ve Şiddet Arasında

Directed by ŞİRİN BAHAR DEMİREL


SPECIAL MENTION

Boston Turkish Festival's 19th Annual Documentary & Short Film Competition


zarafet ve siddet arasinda. between delicate and violent.


Doc. / 15 min. / 2023 / with English subtitles


SYNOPSIS


Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? 'Between Delicate and Violent' imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.


SELECTED FESTIVALS AND AWARDS


  • Boston Turkish Festival’s 19th Annual Documentary & Short Film Competition (2024): Special Mention
  • SIYAD (Turkish Film Critics Association) Awards (2025): Best Short Documentary
  •   International Women Filmmakers Festival. Izmir, Türkiye (2024): Best International Experimental Film Award
  • Akbank International Short Film Festival, Türkiye (2024): Jury’s Special Mention
  • International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2024): Audience Award
  • Istanbul Film Festival, Türkiye (2024): Special Jury Prize
  • Leiden Shorts Festival, The Netherlands (2024): Special Mention
  • Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days, Türkiye (2024): Best Sound Design
sirin bahar demirel.

ŞİRİN BAHAR DEMİREL

Director


Şirin Bahar Demirel is a filmmaker and visual artist, working with moving image, collage, and photography. Her works explore home, mis/displacement, and workings of memory in its broadest sense, through their relationships with objects and places, highlighting the underlying gender roles. She tells personal stories rooted in social realities with a playful approach, and experiments with the dialogue between archival & found images and her own creations. Demirel studied cinema at Galatasaray University in Istanbul and Artistic Direction of Cultural Projects at Paul Valéry University in France. Film festivals and group exhibitions that she participated in include IDFA, Kassel Dokfest, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Sharjah Film Platform, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art screenings.