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A WOMAN ESCAPES

Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams
Canada/Turkey, 2022
81 min.

Living alone in Paris after the recent death of a friend, Audrey moves through the days without any clear motivation or sense of purpose so she begins a video correspondence with two fellow filmmakers.

The film will be presented in a 3D Anaglyph version.

Sofia Bohdanowicz’s lonely, grieving alter ego Audrey has moved to Paris after the recent death of her friend. Drained and unable to process this, she begins a video correspondence with two fellow directors. Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. A heartfelt take on Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped, the film evades questions of factuality and offers us instead a glimpse into the trio’s ways of communication and their coping mechanisms. Marked by a deep self-knowledge and exploring the capacity or incapacity to articulate thoughts while grieving, A Woman Escapes manages to find the strings and make the connections between three different, but not mutually exclusive solitudes.  (Emil Vasilache, BIEFF 2022)

Date and Location

30th of September 2022, 22:30, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Premii și festivaluri

Sofia Bohdanowicz

Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. Her experimental shorts and narrative features have screened internationally, including venues such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno Festival, New York Film Festival, the Berlinale, and the Harvard Film Archive.

Burak Çevik

Burak Çevik is a filmmaker based in Istanbul. He also founded Fol Cinema Society, curated experimental and arthouse film screenings, and was a lecturer on Non-Fiction at Istanbul Bilgi University be- tween 2018 and 2020.

Blake Williams

Blake Williams is Toronto-based artist and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the production company BlueMagenta Films, and con- tributes criticism to the Canadian film publication Cinema Scope magazine.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Deragh Campbell, Mustafa Akkaya, Mehmet Ayısıgı, Burak Çevik, Dorota Lech, Juliane Sellam, Emilia Szydło
  • ORIGINAL SCORE: Sarah Davachi
  • COLOUR CORRECTION: Rodrigo Moreno
  • SOUND MIX: Raymundo Ballesteros

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Marco Gualtieri, Selman Nacar, Dominga Sotomayor

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