In her famous extended essay A Room of One’s Own from 1929, Virginia Woolf claims that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” — a statement that today stands as a manifesto for female artistic emancipation. Gülizar, the main character in Belkis Bayrak’s film of the same name, which just celebrated its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and is currently showing at the San Sebastián Film Festival, has neither money nor privacy. Yet she will quietly, yet stubbornly, fight for an independent viewpoint throughout the 82-minute-long screen time. The need …