Pınar Fontini

Dream Workers is an intimate and daring journey into women's creativity, dreams, and unexpected confrontations by life through the intertwined stories of eight women filmmakers and a village women's theatre group from Turkey. The conditions of urban and cultural gentrification, pandemic, and isolation that initially threaten the film become part of the film. Listening to the creation stories of these women directors, including the director of the documentary, the audience experiences their different ways of living life and making art under the contemporary socio-cultural dynamics of Turkey.

Women directors from the generation of 1968 made their first films in 1990s Turkey, but what kind of working environment did they face? This documentary examines individually the “lost” films and directors of the period, who laid the foundations of women’s cinema in Turkey, and also the director’s own experience in making this film.