Mizgin’s documentary film focuses on the Alevi community in Edmonton, North London, where a new group has been established to encourage women to take up cycling. Leyla, a 64 year old, says “I can’t describe my joy when I went to my first cycle training session, I was as happy as a child”.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Mizgin was born in a small mixed Kurdish-Arab village in eastern Turkey. Her short films and documentaries focus mainly on women, immigrants and cultural issues. Mizgin’s earlier short films The Last Game, (2006), A Fatal Dress Polygamy (2009), I Flew, You Stayed (2012) , have won international awards.