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Anqa

Anqa · Anqa

Helin Çelik Áustria Austria, Espanha Spain,

2023, AUT, ESP, 91’, M12


International Competition 2023 / New Talents 2023 / Poetry in Motion 2023

23 Nov 2023 · Passos Manuel · 21H30

24 Nov 2023 · Passos Manuel · 19H15


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The Kurdish interdisciplinary artist Helin Çelik has made her second feature film, Anqa, in which three women find a place of refuge in the intimacy of a flat: they have all suffered the horrors of war in Jordan and it is in sharing that they find some form of therapy. It's not so much about denouncing the crimes and exposing the traumas as it is about feeling them impressively and lyrically, healing the wounds and proposing encounters. A film that stares pain in the face, but always with tenderness. As one of the protagonists says, "I am not what remains, I exist".

Anqa premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum section.