Pembe & Eflatun

Minem Sezgin ontving een bijdrage voor het ontwikkelen van haar nieuwe film. Pembe & Eflatun is a mixed-media animated short film, exploring the aftermath of war in a world plagued by severe drought and limited food resources. An innkeeper couple, Pembe and Eflatun, opens their doors to a group of stranded refugee women and children. As the refugees settle in, a series of secrets begin to surface about how the couple have been managing this ex-prison, now inn. The film is an adaptation of Hande Ortaç’s critically acclaimed short story Pembe ve Eflatun, as part of her collection of short stories, Daha Iyi Misin?. With this, Hande was awarded first prize in the Woman to Woman Story Competition by KAOS GL’s (Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association).

Minem writes and performs stories in various forms. One of her recent works is a graphic novel, No Seat At The Table, about gentrification and housing crisis in Turkey and the Netherlands. She created the concept, curated and led 4 illustrators with whom she did an extensive research and wrote four stories. The book was published by Jap Sam Books in 2021 and is being distributed globally including Tokyo Art Book Fair in late 2022.