New Turkish Films -

Women With Purple Violets

Original title: "Mor Menekşeli Kadınlar"

Directed by

Sezen Kayhan

Cinematography by

Cem Genekşe, Sezen Kayhan, Arda Yıldıran, Okan Candemir

Edited by

Rita Bakacs, Buğra Dedeoğlu

Music by

Maximilian Shaik-Youssef

Main cast

Ayşegül Ataoğlu, Naciye Öztürk, Seylan Ergen, Ülkü Çimen


Color: color, Running time: 73, Format: Digital, Countries: TR, DE, Languages: TR


Producer(s)
Beste Yamalioglu She worked as the coordinator of Meetings on the Bridge for 9 years and as a freelance producer since 2013. She attended the 20th Sarajevo Talents Producers program and also MFI / Training for Script Editors. She co-produced The List of Those Who Love Me by Emre Erdogdu, which won the Best Film Award at Istanbul FF and Best Cinematography Award at Tallinn Black Nights FF. She is currently working at Karma Films as a content producer.
Sezen Kayhan
Co-producer(s)

Natalia Imaz, Fabian Kling

Synopsis

In the 1970s, an all-female football fan club named ‘Purple Violets’ played an important role in the liberation of women in a conservative society in Turkey. Fifty-two years later, four founding members reunite for one final match as their team faces dissolution and the country slips deeper into authoritarianism. Amid memories and resistance, they attend a rally of Istanbul’s mayor, Imamoğlu, who is currently imprisoned and confront deeper struggles over women's visibility in public life, as the stadium—once their sanctuary—falls into ruin.