- The objective of this festival is to introduce the native and foreigner women directors to audience, to reconsider the cinema through a feminist perspective and to create a sphere for the discussion on women’s experiences and problems reflected to the cinema.

- Submission to the festival is open to feature fictions, documentaries and short films that directed by women or at least co-directed by a woman.

- Film formats, video systems and other media carriers that can be presented during the festival are: 35mm and Beta-cam SP (PAL)

- All feature films’s screening format has to be 35mm copy..

- Selected films will be screened in their original version with electronic subtitles in Turkish. In principle, if the original language is the film other than English, the prints must be subtitled in English.

- Dialog list in English along with a DVD copy of the film must be provided for translation purposes.

- Participants are urged to make available all requested publicity material for promotion.

2.Submission deadlines and materials

- The submission deadline for selection purposes, which means the deadline for the festival’s office to receive the required submission materials, is: March 1, 2010 for short films and documentaries and March 10, 2010 for the feature films.

- The applicant is requested to send:

•A completed and duly signed entry form
•One full-length DVD (PAL) copy of the film. The screener must be labeled with the title, director’s name, length, format, subtitling (if any).
•Synopsis of the film
•Fragment of the film (if any)
•Biography and filmography of the director
•Full cast and credits list
•Stills from the film (300 dpi)
•Photographs of the director (300dpi)
•Poster and/or press booklet

- The owners of the participant films are required to send the mentioned materials as prepaid to the address below.

3.Selected films

In order to compile the festival catalogue, for each selected film, the festival must receive a duly completed entry form and requested materials (screener, synopsis of the film, biography and filmography of the director, a selection of stills from the film and a full list of artistic and technical credits). The requested materials should be sent/ submitted as soon as possible upon acceptance of the invitation, but no later than March 19, 2010. The festival accepts no liability in the event that its publications reproduce inaccuracies in submitted materials.

4.Conclusion

Entry and participation of films implies unconditional acceptance of the regulations. In unspecified cases, the festival management will make a final decision.