The scream of passing jets bridges the cut from the opening credits to a low angle tracking shot passing below telephone lines in the desert. This immediately establishes the sort of culture clash ...

WHEN Zaradasht Ahmed, a Norwegian-Kurdish director, began shooting his war documentary, a complicated process spanning more than five years awaited him. “Nowhere to Hide” (2016, pictured), an ...

The Zagros Film Festival started today (March 1). The festival, where 15 Kurdish films will meet the audience online, will continue throughout March. Among the films that can be watched during the ...

The 2nd İstanbul Kurdish Film Festival will be held on March 24-29, 2022. While the festival was held for the first time in 2019, it could not be held again due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) ...

New York zine collective and radio station 8-Ball Community and the North American Rojava Alliance (NARA), which provides activist support for the people of Rojava, has teamed up to announce the ...

New York Kurdish Cultural Center Hosts 8th Annual Film Festival Celebrating 'Freedom of Expression in the Mother Tongue' NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2024 ...

And I'm Madeleine Brand. Three years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq has become a cultural magnet of sorts for Kurds around the world. Artists, writers, film ...

For Kurds, a nation without a state, artistic expression in recent decades has tended to have a strong political flavor. Now, however, some Kurdish filmmakers are attempting to break out of the old ...

The founder of the New York Kurdish Film Festival, Ms. Xeyal Qertel, expressed her vision for the festival, stating, “Our goal is to ensure audiences in New York City are exposed to Kurdish film, ...