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KurdishCinema.com May 2010
| An exiled director's representation of his own people, Kurds / by Devrim Kilic |
| 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 |
| Bahman Ghobadi discusses his new feature, "Half Moon" / By Jim Quilty |
| Q&A with Bahman Ghobadi for Passion for Cinema / by, Kavita Kasturi |
| 5th Kurdish Film Festival in London / by Bestun Baban |
| An interview with Hisham Zaman on Bawke by Richard Raskin |
| Aristotle's seven golden rules of story telling by Jalal Jonroy |
| Half Moon takes cynical approach toward Turkey / By Elif Tunca |
| Announcement! Siba Films is looking for: - a young woman, from 20 to 30, who could speak Kurdish and French, or at least French - a man from 60 to 70, who speaks Kurdish - Kurdish actors or who seems to be. Send your cv and photographs to Sibafilm@gmail.com. Paying job. |
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| “Turtles Can Fly” And The Image Of Perpetrators, Victims And Heroes (Saviors) / by Saniye KARAKAS |
| Casting for a Kurdish film We are looking for following actors and supporting roles for a Kurdish feature film. If you are interested please send us your recent photo and CV until 20th of September. Below our contact details. >>> September 12, 2009 >>> |
| Chaplin of the Mountains Principle photography has been completed on Jano Rosebiani’s new film, "Chaplin of the Mountains" in Southern Kurdistan. Starring a collection of actors from Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver and Berlin, “Chaplin…” is the first English language film to be shot in the region. >>> September 12, 2009 |
| The first New York Kurdish Film Festival The First New York Kurdish Film Festival: A Cinema Across Borders is the first-ever film festival of Kurdish cinema in the United States. Bringing together an exciting range of films and documentaries from across the Kurdish region and the Kurdish diaspora, the festival will feature ten short films, a documentary and eight feature films, including the US premiere of The Storm by Kazım Öz (Ax, Fotograf). >>> October 9, 2009 |
| Min Dit won Youth Award at 57th San Sebastian Film Festival Kurdish director Miraz Bezar won GAZTEA de la Juventud (GAZTEA Youth Award) with his first feature film "Min Dit / The Children of Diyarbekir" at the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival. >>> October 9, 2009 |
| 'Welcome' a new controversial film by Philippe Lioret 'Welcome’ focuses on the abandoned immigrants trapped on the shores of Calais, telling the story of a 17-year-old Kurdish boy named Bilal who is attempting to travel to England to see his love. >>> October 9, 2009 |
| Kurdish director, stuck between Iraq and Iran / by PETER SCARLET * BAHMAN GHOBADI first came to the movie world’s attention in 2000, when his “Time for Drunken Horses” won the prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival. >>> November 1 2009 |
| Cinema Regarding Nations: Re-imagining Armenian, Kurdish, and Palestinian national identity in film / By Tim Kennedy * An old man begins to narrate the fable of Mem, ‘a handsome young man’, and Zîn, ‘the beautiful sister of a great emir’. The scene changes to a lively, colourful, market where Mem and his friend Tajdîn meet Zîn and her sister Siti. The couples promptly fall in love – denoted by an exchange of rings – before the women disappear into their palace. >>> November 5 2009 |
| Jiyar Gol reporting for BBC World Service. November 25, 2009 |
| Yilmaz Güney and Kurdish identity / by Tim Kennedy * Part 2 Güney was phenomenally successful in his early career, appearing as a virile “action hero” in a large-number of low-budget Yeşilçam films in the 1950s and 1960s.1 Regarded as ‘the most popular actor in Turkish film history’ (Ilal, 1987: 124), he was able to use his popularity to embark on a second career as film-maker, beginning with his collaboration with Akad in 1964.2 Only after 1982, when he escaped from prison in Turkey and renounced his Turkish citizenship, was it possible for him openly to acknowledge his Kurdish origins and reveal his support for the Kurdish movement for autonomy (Kutschera, 1983). However, we can see how Güney progressively articulates aspects of Kurdish identity in three films from his most important period, Umut (1970), Sürü (1978), and Yol (1982). >>> January 27, 2010 |
| A new film from Kurdish director Mano Khalil: Our Garden of Eden Kurdish director Mano Khalil has completed his last feature film, runs for 97 minutes, Our Garden of Eden. The film presents everyday life in an allotment garden that mirrors the mosaic-like pattern of contemporary multiethnic and multicultural Swiss society. >>> March 8, 2010 |
| Dersim’s missing girls break their silence after 72 years The documentary titled ‘Two Locks of Hair: The Missing Girls of Dersim,’ which sheds light on the painful incidents of the 1938 Dersim Operation, four 80-year-old women tell of the trauma they experienced during the tragedy. The film will be shown during the International Istanbul Film Festival next month. Concomitant with an increasing questioning of Turkey’s official history, a new documentary on the women who were lost following the 1938 Dersim Operation seeks to illuminate a dark period in Turkish history. >>> March 23, 2010 |
| The Last Season Shawaks Kazim Öz travels with pastoral Shawaks from Dersim villages to Dersim mountains when spring starts with heavy rain. The journey that ends at the zeniths of mountains starts again in autumn after long working days during the hot summer in the highlands. Shawaks get on the road to return their village this time. After weeks of travelling with herds, Shawaks reach their village and the cycle begins from the start. Stating an aesthetic and creative sentence about human, nature, and labor, The Last Season: Shawaks invites the viewer to an unusual journey. >>> May 12, 2010 |
Director Karabey to tell story of Kurdish village Director Hüseyin Karabey, who has been selected at the 63. International Cannes Film Festival with his film project ‘Sesime Gel' (Come to my voice), is adapting a real story in Kurdistan in 1980’s into a film. Karabey was selected by the ‘Cinefondation-Atelier’ of the festival with his film project. There was no Turkish or Kurdish film at this year edition of the French festival. >>> May 31. 2010 |
| Camp Unity will be shown at Montreal World Film Festival CAMP UNITY is a new documentary film about an arts program for youth in Iraqi Kurdistan that will have its international premiere at the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival in September. This documentary, Camp Unity, is an award- winning documentary feature about a diverse group of Iraqi students who unite through hip-hop, jazz, orchestra, and Broadway at an American arts academy in Iraqi Kurdistan. >>> August 22, 2010 |
