The first images are accompanied by a gentle bubbling sound and create a sense of disorientation. A cloudy panorama, a street in the fog, a dark corridor. This ominous exterior stands in contrast to the warmer colour scheme of the apartments where the film’s protagonists spend their time. The three women share similarly traumatising experiences of violence in Jordan; they allude to rape, assault, detention as they speak. In their apartments, they seek refuge from the violence of the outside world.
Helin Çelik does not tell these women’s stories, but rather sketches their post-traumatic situation in impressive, poetic film imagery. Raquel Fernández Núñez’s camera shows their bodies in extreme close-ups: eye sockets marked by insomnia, trembling hands. Their traumas also reveal disturbing thoughts, such as one protagonist’s idea to kill her children to protect them. At the same time, she is seen interacting with them lovingly. Anqa shows how these women struggle not to allow the suffering they have experienced to define them. “I am not the remains,” one of them says. “I exist.”
by Helin Çelik Austria / Spain 2023 Arabic,  Subtitles: English 91’ Colour World premiere | Documentary Form

Crew

DirectorHelin Çelik
ScreenplayHelin Çelik
CinematographyRaquel Fernández Núñez
EditingSara Fattahi
MusicNadim Husni, Victor Jann Nasri Bahdousheh
Sound DesignNicolás Tsabertidis
SoundMaitane Carballo Alonso
Production ManagerRebeca Sánchez López
ProducersRebeca Sánchez López, Helin Çelik
Executive ProducersRebeca Sánchez López, Helin Çelik

Produced by

Kepler Mission Films

Barcelona, Spain

www.keplermissionfilms.com www.keplermissionfilms.com

Helin Çelik

Wien, Austria

Helin Çelik

Born in Diyarbakir, Kurdistan, Turkey in 1991, she studied art therapy, comparative literature, theatre and digital media. Helin Çelik lives in Vienna, where she works as an artist and art therapist. Following What the Wind Took Away (2017), Anqa is her second feature-length film.

Filmography

2017 What the Wind Took Away; 75 min. 2018 For a Moment There; 10 min. 2023 Anqa; 91 min.

Dates

Fri Feb 17 17:00

Werkstattkino@silent green

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Tue Feb 21 14:00

Kino Arsenal 1

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Fri Feb 24 17:00

Kino Arsenal 1

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Sun Feb 26 16:00

Zoo Palast 2

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