“Mustang” director Deniz Gamze Ergüven was tired of only seeing the world in the cinema solely from a male perspective, so she made her own movie.
“It’s pioneer territory,” she said of her movie, which was selected as the French entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this year.
The movie tells the story of five Turkish orphaned sisters who struggle to live under the constraints of a conservative society.
“In cinema history, we are used to seeing the world through the eyes of men,” she said, explaining that perspective restricts the way we look at history and society.