A WOMAN ESCAPES
Audrey Benac lives alone in Paris after having moved there to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend, Juliane. Moving through the days without any clear motivation or sense of purpose, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by beginning video correspondences with two filmmakers — Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. This exchange of words and footage initiates a healing process, but the nature of the interaction is not what it seems.
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Written by Blake Williams
A co-direction with Blake Williams and Burak Çevik
Avec la participation de Dorota Lech, Emilia Szydło, & Mustafa Akkaya
2021 / 79 min / Canada & Turkey / English & Turkish / 4:3.1
FICUNAM, Catpulta Primer Corte Lab, Mexico City, Mexico, 2021
Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2022
Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, USA, 2022
Container: Brisbane Film Society, Brisbane, Australia, 2022
DocLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022
Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Lima, Peru, 2022
Festival International de Cine de Valdivia, Valdivia, Chile, 2022
Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada, 2022
Antalya Film Festival, Antalya, Turkey, 2022
Vancouver Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, 2022
FIDMarseille, International Competition, Marseille, France, 2022
DokuFest, International Competition, Prizren, Kosovo, 2022
Anthology Film Archives, New York City, USA, 2023
Container - Queensland Film Festival, Brisbane, Australia, 2023
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea, 2023
Prismatic Ground, New York City, USA, 2023
Taipei Culture Foundation, Taipei Film Festival, Taipei, 2023
Internationals Frauenfilmfestival, Dortmund, Germany, 2023
Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 2023
Wavelengths + Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2023
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K., 2024
Winner:
Estudios Churubusco First Cut Award, FICUNAM, Catapulta Primer Corte Lab, March, 2021
Honourable Mention - CNAP Award, FIDMarseille, France, 2022
Honourable Mention - FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile, 2022
Film Comment: Best Undistributed Films of 2022
Sales Agent - Wouter Jansen, Square Eyes