A Woman Escapes

Synopsis

Audrey Benac lives alone in Paris after having moved there to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend, Juliane. Moving through the days without any clear motivation or sense of purpose, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by beginning video correspondences with two filmmakers: Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. This exchange of words and footage initiates a healing process, but the nature of the interaction is not what it seems.

Director Biography

Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. Her experimental shorts and narrative features have screened internationally. She is the recipient of the Jay Scott Prize (2017) and was recently named as one of “The 22 Most Influential People in Canadian Film” in the Globe and Mail. She is currently in development on her fifth feature film titled Opus 28. Burak Çevik is a filmmaker based in Istanbul. He also founded Fol Cinema Society, curated experimental and arthouse film screenings, and was a lecturer on Non-Fiction at Istanbul Bilgi University between 2018 and 2020. His films The Pillar of Salt and Belonging premiered at Berlinale Forum in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Blake Williams is Toronto-based artist and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the production company BlueMagenta Films, and contributes criticism to the Canadian film publication Cinema Scope magazine.