LUBUNYA – QUEER SHORTS FROM TURKEY

Transvestites / Travestiler
Aykut Atasay, 2007
Overtime / Fazla Mesai
Gürcan Keltek, 2012
Moira
Nilgün Küçükbatman, 2016
Rebirth / Yeniden Doğuş
Zehra Gökçimen & Gökçe Oraloğlu, 2017
Solo
Sertaç Koyuncu, 2017
Muttering / Homur Homur
Simay Çalışkan & Nergis Karadağ, 2017

Everything you want to know about ‘Transvestites‘ is in this mockumentary. In Overtime, we hear sounds of workers, both day and night, on the streets, in factories and studios of Istanbul. Moira is a daily ballad for Boysan, Zeliş and Mert. Rebirth is a dance ritual which turns into a recreation of the self. A DYI rebellion against ‘the looks’ is traced in Solo. And there is no place for haters in Muttering.

Pink Life QueerFest curated the Lubunya* – Queer Shorts from Turkey event with short documentary and fiction LGBTI+ films from Turkey from the early 2000s to today. The selection intends to open up a debate on the past, present and future of queer cinema and the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey.

*Lubunya, a slang term used in Turkey that includes a spectrum of queer sexualities.

Nazlı is a lesbian feminist activist and a Phd student in anthropology, interested in queer migration and digital media. She lives in Berlin since January 2017.