Film Screening:

Oyun (The Play)

(Pelin Esmer, 2005, 70 min, Turkey, in Turkish w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)

-- Q&A to follow w/ Didem Havlioğlu, Slavic & Eurasian Studies

When nine peasant women from Arslankoy, a mountain village in southern Turkey, decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, unexpected aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of their play, The Outcries of Women!, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.

-- Winner for Best Documentary at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Punto de Vista (2006)!

--"Boisterously insightful, hilarious and socially relevant in equal measure, and the perfect antidote to today's crop of dryly crusading, good -for-you documentaries. Not to be missed." -- New York Magazine

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), the Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), the Global Education Office for Undergraduates (GEO)/Duke in Istanbul, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).