Young Amed film director Elif Yiğit, made a film about the struggle for justice of Emine Şenyaşar. The movie has been selected in competition by IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival.
Young Amed film director Elif Yiğit, made a film about the struggle for justice of Emine Şenyaşar. The film is called For Justice, and will be in competition at the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival.
The festival will be held from 9 to 11 March in New Delhi.
On 14 June 2018, the bodyguards and relatives of AKP Urfa MP Ibrahim Halil Yıldız attacked the Şenyaşar family's shop in Suruç during the election campaign.
In the attack, brothers Celal, Adil, Mehmet, Fadıl and Ferit Şenyaşar were injured. Relatives and supporters of AKP MP Yıldız, badly injured Celal and Adil Şenyaşar, and their father Hacı Esvet Şenyaşar, when he went to the hospital to visit their sons. He was brutally murdered, being lynched in front of his wife Emine Şenyaşar.
Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit (who was injured in the attack), have been holding a Justice Vigil in front of the Courthouse of Urfa since 9 March 2021, demanding those responsible to be brought to account.
The festival
The 18th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival is organized by IAWRT India. This unique Asian women’s film festival each year to mark International Women’s Day. Launched in 2005, the IAWRT film festival has over the years positioned itself with a conscious effort to showcase narratives weaved by Asian women filmmakers and grown in strength and reputation, with participation from around the world.
