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"I have problems with the borders" / an
interview with Bahman Ghobadi by Michael
Guillen
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.
Contact us

    What is on?

    David & Layla will be
    screened at Berlin
    International Film
    Market

David and Layla in
American cinemas

Paris Kurdish Film
Festival
What is on?
KurdishCinema has
another address:
kurdishcinema.org

Script award from
KurdishCinema.com

Turtles Can Fly wins
Two Awards in
Bahrain

My Marlon and
Brando (Gitmek) is
at New York Tribeca
Film Festival

Ghobadi's film in
Bahrain Human
Rights Film Festival

David Tolhildan
banned in
Singapore film fest

Call from
Manchester Kurdish
Film Festival (MKFF’
08)

Celebrate Newroz  
with Shiva Rose at
David & Layla
premiere in San
Francisco

Kurdish films at 37.
Rotterdam
International Film
Festival

Film about Kurdish
female PKK leader
Nuriye Kesbir

Half Moon in
Melbourne Australia

Great success of
Half Moon in Spain

Amsterdam Film
eXperience 2007 is
now accepting
submissions

Call for
submissions to  2nd
Iraqi Short Film
Festival

Ghobadi will work
with Bernardo
Bertollucci

Release of Hallf
Moon around the
world

Half Moon won AI
awards in Portugal

Call for 5th London
Kurdish Film Festival

Bahman ghobadi as
a Jury in the 55th
San Sebastian Film
Festival

Bahman Ghobadi
and Jose Saramago
in Spain

David & Layla at
American Cinemas

Call for Yılmaz
Güney Short Film
Competition

Screening of David
& Laylat at Verona
Film Festival

Musikliebe, new
documentary of
Yusuf Yesiloz

Scandal at the 6th
Emirates
International Film
Festival

Ghobadi has been
banned of shooting
films in Iran!

Sharon Stone
praises Bahman
Ghobadi

A Kurdish director:
Shewket Amin Korki

5th London Kurdish
Film Festival will
kick off

Director Hiwa
Aminnejad

A new Kurdish film
'Parinawa La
Ghobar'

Screening of `David
the Tholhildan` in
London

Screning of
"Crossing the Dust"
by KSSO

Diary of the 5th
London Kurdish
Film Festival

Hollywood to make
movie about Kurdish
leader Mustafa
Barzani

Sî û Ba is the best
film

Paris Kurdish Film
Festival was
successful

Ghobadi in the list of
top 100 filmmakers

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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
Kenned
y * 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