Known as “Spain’s mischievous girl,” Antonia San Juan, who won international fame for her role as Agrado in Almodóvar’s “All About My Mother,” is coming to Ankara for the Flying Broom International Film Festival. Three films she has directed will be screened in Turkey for the first time.

This year’s 12th Flying Broom İnternational Film Festival (May 7-14), will pay tribute to Pippa Bacca with her peace-promoting films. The festival will continue supporting Bacca’s unfinished work by screening films which tell the stories of women who struggle for peace amidst the reality of war’s horror.

The Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival asked eighteen female cinema critics and members of SİYAD what their “favorite ‘women’s film’ is. They said Piano and Cleo from Five to Seven.

The 12th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival is hosting the inspirer director of German cinematography, Ulrike Ottinger. In this festival where we can see Ottinger’s six films that all of them are welcomed enthusiastically and caused polemics, will take place, there will be also a photography exhibition consists of her works.

The 12th Flying Broom International Film Festival, May 7-14, 2009, will award young actresses with the title 'Young Witch'. There are several strong candidates for the award, which is to be presented on the festival’s closing night.