North American Premiere • Grand Prize Competition

More and more women in Turkey - but also in Turkish migrants host countries - are becoming victims of so-called 'honour killings'. The result of three years of research, Requiem for Women portrays both the victims and the perpetrators of such killings. The film is an outcry for the women we do not hear, we pretend not to have heard.

Awards
Nuremberg Turkish/German Film Festival, Mahmut Tali Öngören Human Rights Prize 2007 ; Ankara International Film Festival, Professional Documentary Section, 3rd Prize.

Berrin Balay Tuncer
Berrin Balay Tuncer has obtained a B. S. degree in Social Science and a PhD. in Public Relations and Publicity in Turkey. She worked as the director of the 2nd and the 6th Flying Broom International Women’s Film festival. She has been as a producer at METU-GISAM (Middle East Technical University – Audio Visual Research and Production Center) since 1993.

Önder M.Özdem
Önder M.Özdem was born in 1975. He graduated in International Relations at Bilkent University and obtained a Master of Science degree in Social Psychology in METU. He works at METU-GISAM (Audio Visual Research and Production Center) since 2001.