FINALIST WILL YOU COME WITH ME Directed by Derya Durmaz Anim. Short | 2 min. | 2023 | In English Voice: Derya Durmaz A Berlin born little story... The city which fools you with its liberated outlook, tends to give you a slap in the face when you get into intimate relationships, only to find out that things still aren't so different then they were in the dark days of the past, when women had to take responsibility for not only their actions, but also men’s, and had to bare the consequences all on their own... Selected Festivals and Awards Kaboom Animation Festival, The Netherlands (2025): Best Documentary Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Türkiye (2024): Special Screening Animaphix International Festival of Animated Films, Experimental Competition, Italy (2024): Jury Special Mention Milano Est Film Festival, Italy (2024): Honorable Mention Animafest Cyprus, International Competition, Cyprus (2024): Jury Special Mention Art Cabbage Magazine Art Prize, Film Section (2024): Honorable Mention Blackwood Films Festival, Germany (2023): Honorable Mention for Directing Derya DURMAZ Derya Durmaz was born in Esslingen, Germany and raised in Ankara, Türkiye. She studied Economy, Human Rights Law and Acting. Her first short film “Ziazan” received Armenia Turkey Cinema Platform Best Project Award, participated in over 45 international festivals, won 11 awards and received full coverage in the Washington Post and Monocle magazine. The film also won the Best Short Film Audience Award at BTF’s Documentary & Short Film Competition in 2014. Her second short film “Mother Virgin No More” premiered at the 65th Berlinale Generation 14plus Short Film Competition, participated in over 25 international festivals and received Special Mention at BTF’s Documentary and Short Film Competition in 2015. She was selected to Toronto Film Festival TIFF Talent Lab and to Berlinale Talents. With her first 1st feature film project “The Bus To Amerika”, she was selected to First Films First – Goethe Institut Young Directors Academy South East Europe, Festival des 3 Continants Nantes Produire Au Sud program and to Global Media Makers Program of LA based Film Independent, won Talent Highlight Award of Berlinale Co-production Market and was among Wscripted’s list of “Best 25 scripts in English language by female filmmakers to option at Cannes Film Festival 2021”. Her interdisciplinary performance projects "DDS! Discipline, Dominance, Submission” and “The Fallen Gender” was selected to PAF (Performing Arts Festival Berlin) and to the Exp(L)o(RE) section of English Theatre Berlin’s EXPO festival. In 2021, she also participated in the performance project Ciegxs, funded by Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis, as dramaturg, art director and performer. As an actress she worked with Persona Theatre from Athens and took stage in Greece, Türkiye, and Iran. She acted in over 10 feature films - such as “Blue Wave” which competed in 64th Berlinale - and many Turkish TV dramas which aired internationally. In line with her degree in human rights, for over 10 years she has been working with international NGOs, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on projects related to refugees. She also takes part in NGO projects related to human rights, youth and arts. Most recently, she designed and coordinated the EU funded “Project for Human Rights and Film Making for Children” which reached over 300 vulnerable children from 14 cities in Turkey and in Amsterdam, and was a consultant for the EU Human Rights Film Days organised by the EU Delegation to Türkiye.   SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025 8:00 p.m. Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon Street GET YOUR DAILY PASS With the Daily Pass you can watch any or all the films screened on this day.