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KurdishCinema.com - March 2009
| An exiled director's representation of his own people, Kurds / by Devrim Kilic
people in Long Live the Bride is to some extent problematic. >>> 2 May 2007 |
| David & Layla in Italy this friday - Jalal Jonroy's message to the festival |
| Silence tells often much more than words / interview with Hiner Saleem The first film about Kurds, Zeré is 80 years old / by Rohat Alakom |
| Bahman Ghobadi: The Poetics of Politics by Felix Koch |
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| David and Layla: A love story / by Matthew |
| My big, fat, Jewish-Kurdish wedding? / by Tom Tugend |
| "I have problems with the borders" / an interview with Bahman Ghobadi by Michael Guillen
filled with mirthful light. He is a small man but a few sentences into our interview made me... >>> 5th of August 2007 |
| Bahman Ghobadi discusses his new feature, "Half Moon" / By Jim Quilty |
| Gutsy Jewish-Kurdish romance goes after more than laughs / by Jeff Shannon
abandonment of exiled Kurds (as when Layla tells David "we got saved from Saddam by the same... >>> November 3 2007 |
| Q&A with Bahman Ghobadi for Passion for Cinema / by, Kavita Kasturi *
from the rest of the Iranian Films? In their making and their content? >>> November 27, 2007 |
| Self-distribution key to getting 'David & Layla' in theaters / by Martin A. Grove |
| 5th Kurdish Film Festival in London / by Bestun Baban |
| Kurdish School of Cinema at Salahaddin University
(KSC) at the College of Fine Arts/Salahaddin University is the first film school ever in Kurdistan and is... >>> December 28, 2007 |
| An interview with Hisham Zaman on Bawke by Richard Raskin
longer film, with more action and more characters in a broader universe. >>> 24 January 2008 |
| Aristotle's seven golden rules of story telling by Jalal Jonroy
lasting, worthwhile ideas relevant to our world, lives, troubles, nightmares, dreams, hopes, loves... >>> February 4, 2008 |
| Half Moon takes cynical approach toward Turkey / By Elif Tunca *
receive their fair share of criticism from Ghobadi's latest feature- length movie, "Niwemang" >>> February 22, 2008 |
| Inteview with Huseyin Karabey, director of "My Marlon and Brando" by indieWIRE Huseyin Karabey's "My Marlon and Brando retells the true story of Turkish actress Ayca Damgaci, who heads to Baghdad in search of her husband... >>> October 27 2008 |
| Kurdish director, writer and actor: Ibrahim Selman Ibrahim Selman, a Kurdish director living in Holland, born in 1952 in Iraqi Kurdistan. As well as directing films Selman writes screenplays. He shot several feature and around 80 short films. >>> January 20 2009 |
Film feast / by James M. Wall
film is a gritty, realistic portrait of the U.S. role in the betrayal of the Kurdish people's desire for independence. >>> March 5, 2008 |
| Prix du Public / Audience Award to David and Layla
to Director J Jonroy by the Ministry of Culture - who is also an actress - ... >>> September 13 2008 |
| Censorship from Culture Ministry; 'Turkish girl cannot fall in love with a Kurdish boy!'
censorship cast its shadow on ‘Culturescapes-Türkei’ festival. >>> November 6 2008 |
Kurdish films to be screened in India
Bahman Ghobadi, will be screened at the 13th International Film festival of Kelara in India. >>> December 12, 2008. |
Kurdish director won the big prize in Belgium
Kalifa won the best film award at International Leuven Short Film Festival in Belgium >>> December 14, 2008 |
| KurdishCinema.com Script Award! Last 15 days for KurdishCinema.com script award. Please send your script asap. The aim is to promote the script writing. >>> December 27, 2008 |
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| A self-tought Kurdish filmmaker: Jano Rosebiani A self-taught Kurdish filmmaker, born and raised in the town of Zakho in Southren Kurdistan. In 1974, he along with his family joined the Kurdish mass uprising against... >>> January 12 2009 |
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| "Kurdish cinema is unknown to the world", Babak Amini Kurdish cinema is unknown to the world because it is very limited and still in its infancy. Bahman Ghobadi tried hard to introduce the Kurdish cinema to the world, but when you are on your own, there is only so much that you can do. >>> February 1 2009 |
| "My prison my home" a film by Mano Khalil Mano Khalil's new film "My Prison My Home" evolves around the Anfal atrocities committed in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's era. >>> February 12 2009 |
| “Turtles Can Fly” And The Image Of Perpetrators, Victims And Heroes (Saviors) / by Saniye KARAKAS* Turtles Can Fly is the third feature film of Bahman Ghobadi, a Kurdish director from Iran. The movie portrays exactly the stereotypical image of Kurds and their suffering and resilience, particularly the plight of children on the border of Turkey and Iraq. It is the first film made after the fall of Saddam. >>> February 20 2009 |
| CLOSE UP KURDISTAN : Interview with Director Yuksel Yavuz * As someone who was born and raised in Turkish Kurdistan the "permanent war" has not gone past me – even though I live in Germany since 1980. Over the years I met many Kurdish refugees. Some of them were prosecuted Kurdish intellectuals, others close relatives who migrated to Europe, especially Germany. >>> February 27, 2009 |
