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in USA from 20th of July 2007 5th London Kurdish Film Festival |
Kurdish director, writer and actor: Ibrahim Selman KurdishCinema.com - January 16 2009 Ibrahim Selman, a Kurdish director living in Holland, born in 1952 in Iraqi Kurdistan. As well as directing films Selman writes screenplays. Cinematography 1978 - "Think an end of this performance", writer, director and actor, short TV-film. 1991 - "Three figures of a mountain man who desire to become a seal", short feature film 38m, screenwriter and actor 1993 - "A silent traveller", long feature film, screenwriter and director 1995/now: Director of about 80 short films", (non-broadcast film). 2008 - "Omet", long feature film, producer, director, actor, screenwriter and editor Synopsis of "Omet" The screenwriter Yaro flees together with his wife Hale from Iraq to the Netherlands in the hope of making a movie about a boy called Temo. Temo, a ten year old boy had (in real life) survived a massacre in the desert of Iraq. Temo looks like Yaro’s missing small brother Miro. Yaro’s attempts, during twelve years, to make a film ended with no results. Finally he meets Els, a young employee of a film production company. He falls in love with her and his hope to realise his film grows, but he also gets a lot of problems with his wife. Beside these problems, they already had some like don’t having children. Hale doesn’t know that she can’t get children with Yaro. He knows about his handicap but doesn’t tell her. He even blames her for this. Hale tries to find out why she never gets pregnant. When she discovers the truth, that Yaro is cause of their childlessness, she takes revenge. The loneliness in their lives is a huge. They can’t live with each other but also not without each other. A bitter, poetical and humour full affair follows, shadowed by the ghosts of his dead father, Temo and his missing small brother Miro. Ibrahims Selman's Curriculum Vitae, short 1972 - 1980 Actor, director and writer Kurdish program’s state broadcast, Baghdad 1976 - Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in acting, Baghdad 1980 - Fear, Solo performance Writer, director and actor Suffering of a madman, play. 1981 - In the Netherlands 1982 - Play ‘Fear’, Writer, director 1982-1985 Study since of Theatre University of Amsterdam, doctoral degree 1985-1988 Professor since of theatre University of Amsterdam 1985-1987 Solo performance: Between two Paradises, text and acting 1987 - Mem and Zin, play 1988 - The eternal officer, play, Writer, director and actor 1990 -1995 policymaker ministry of Welfare and Culture 1995/now: Artistic advisor, Program director of Audio Visual services Dutch ministry of defence 1988/now: Freelance journalist Bibliography 1979 - Mine, short story bundle in Kurdish, Baghdad 1979 - A fool changes the epic of Mem and Zin, play in Kurdish, Bagdad. 1987 - Mem and Zin, Play, Theatre bookshop 1998 - The dance of a frozen country, poems in Dutch, De Geus 2000 - And the sae split in two, novel in Dutch, Indeknipscheer 2000 - Freedom is dead, poems in Dutch, Indeknipscheer 2002 - I thought about the coconut, novel in Dutch, Indeknipscheer 2006 - Tender souls, novel in Dutch, Prometheus 2007 - Looking for brave heart, essays and poems in Dutch, Meuelnhoff For more information about Ibrahim Selman please visit his personal website: www.ibrahimselman.com |
