The 12th Duhok International Film Festival opens today, October 9, bringing an array of screenings, artistic panels, and global guests to the heart of the Kurdistan Region. Festival organizers confirmed that preparations are complete for an edition designed both to showcase this year’s 110 films and to reaffirm Duhok’s cultural mission: presenting Kurdistan as a land of cinematic creativity rather than conflict, and reconnecting Mesopotamia’s ancient legacy with contemporary world cinema.
Ten Kurdish dance troupes are performing this week to rapt audiences in the western Iranian city of Mahabad’s third annual dance festival that celebrates Kurdish culture and heritage.
“We are very pleased to be here today. This vibrant gathering, with the participation of these groups, has created a wonderful atmosphere and brought joy to the festival. Its importance lies in promoting unity among all Kurds, and it reflects the richness of our culture and art,” singer Mani Bruska told Rudaw.
The smoky gatherings of winter nights warmed by wood-fired tea; rooftops under starry skies with songs rising freely; the benches of village schools; the cold cells of Van prison; the forest paths of escape after the 1980 coup in Turkey; the stages of the Netherlands — across all these settings, Hozan Brader’s voice has carried pain, memory, and resistance, rising like a Kurdish ballad of freedom across time and borders.
The German city of Bonn is holding a festival highlighting the culture and art of Afrin, a predominantly Kurdish city in northern Syria.
The Afrin Art Festival serves as a platform for Kurdish artists to connect, collaborate, and introduce themselves to German and European audiences.
On the 20th anniversary of the founding of the welatê me website, the website's management honored Hajj Arif Ramadan, director of the Sama Foundation for Culture and Arts, in recognition of his outstanding efforts in serving Kurdish culture and promoting cultural dialogue.
The 17th Erbil International Book Fair officially opened on Wednesday under the theme “The World Speaks Kurdish,” showcasing a rich tapestry of global literary voices while celebrating Kurdish culture and language.
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Mansour Jahani - The IV Moscow Kurdish Film Festival announces the dates - the screening will take place in the capital from September 18 to 22 this year. Continuing the traditions of previous years, as part of a cultural exchange, the festival will once again bring together filmmakers and film lovers from all over the world to show real masterpieces of Kurdish cinema.
Nowruz day, National holiday of the Kurdish people
we hope it will be a holiday of freedom, peace and union
جەژنی نەورۆز موبارەک بيت جەژنی نەتەوەیی گەلی کورد
هیوادارین جەژنی ئازادی و ئاشتی و یەکگرتوویی بێت
مبارك عليكم عيد نوروز العيد الوطني للشعب الكردي
عيد نوروز مبارك نتمنى ان يكون عيدأ للحرية والسلام والاتحاد
The 14th Kurdish Film Festival will be held in Hamburg between 22-26 November.
The 14th Kurdish Film Festival will be held in Hamburg between 22-26 November with the slogan "A new country". 19 Kurdish films from various parts of Kurdistan and the world will be screened.
The closing ceremony of the festival was held on 11/04/2023 in Essen, Germany.
This period included receiving paintings online, holding dozens of meetings with communicating with Fine artists in order to organize a major event worthy of fine art under the name of Afrin.
Welcoming guests began at two o'clock, and more than 1,000 people from the four parts of Kurdistan, different nationalities, and countries attended the ceremony.
The exhibition featured 40 paintings and 20 portraits of Kurdish intellectuals and revolutionaries, painted by Kurdish artist Hemn Hamid.
At the Media Gallery in Erbil, Kurdish and French artists showcased their first joint exhibition entitled "Paradox."
The exhibition featured 40 paintings and 20 portraits of Kurdish intellectuals and revolutionaries, painted by Kurdish artist Hemn Hamid.
The Yazidi Advisory Center in the Rhineland-Palatz state parliament building in the German city of Mainz commemorated the ninth anniversary of the crime of genocide committed by the terrorist organization ISIS against the Yazidis on 08/03/2014.
Exodus is the theme of the 9th edition of the Duhok International Film Festival (FII) in Duhok. And for this purpose during the festival days, displaced people and refugees will have a chance to see selected films in a hall in the Domiz, south of the province.
“Neighbours,” the story of a Kurdish Syrian border village where Arabic and Jewish families find themselves pitted against each other but still manage to thwart authoritarian madness, is more than a personal story to writer-director Mano Khalil.
The feature, shot on authentic locations with accurate dialects from the region and its 1980s setting, is screening in the Camerimage Film Festival director debut section – after a decades-long development process. The cinematographer on the film was Stéphane Kuthy.
The translator of a new edition of the classic Kurdish love story, Mem and Zin, hopes the saga will cement Kurds’ place in world literature.
Mem and Zin is the tragic 17th century tale of lovers from different clans who meet a tragic end after their families deny their love. They were buried next to each other in Cizre, modern day Turkey.
A tale of love and betrayal, it has been dubbed a Kurdish Romeo and Juliet.
Author Ahmad Khani, a beloved Kurdish poet and philosopher, died in 1707.
Sulaymani International Film Festival ended with distributing prizes for the winning films 7 days after the opening of the festival with the attendance of technicians and a large audience.
The festival was attended by 170 films from 62 countries.
Best Screenplay/Screenwriter goes to Atta Hama Saleh in “Masti Film Company”
Best Short Film goes to Artist Tariq Tawfiq for "Unknown Steps"
Best long film goes “The Pink House” film
The first Kurdish Tanbur Festival was kicked off on Monday in Iranian Kurdistan’s Kermanshah Province.
Attended by nearly 70 famous musicians, among them dozens of Kurdish Yarsans, the event is being held in Banzalan village of Dalaho district.
Well-known Kurdish artists Shahram Nazeri and Keyhan Kalhor will also perform at the festival.
Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts Ave NW, 20036 Washington, D.C.
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Agenda
Welcome Remarks:
Sasha Toperich, CTR-SAIS Senior Fellow, Director of the Mediterranean Basin Initiative
Panelists
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, KRG Representative to the United States
The Author House publishes Sinful Words in a country where English speaks about five hundred more television, radios and newspapers.
Hesenê Metê translated a book titled Dr. Dr. Sabahat Karaduman, the rhetoric, went out with British students. Roman and Turkish translation have also been translated.
Haitham Hussein‘s latest novel, A Weed in Paradise (July 2017 Masciliana Editions), traces the footprints of the Kurds who fled their towns and villages in the north of Syria for the suburbs of the capital Damascus after the 2004 Qamishli uprising, which resulted in dozens of dead and thousands in prison:
This is an anthology of Kurdish contemporary poetry, which is rare in the sense that there have not been many similar attempts before. It is a general introduction to the contemporary Kurdish poetry and its unique features, which may not be familiar to English readers.
Vecdi Erbay
Etimesgut subprefect Cumali Atilla who had been appointed as kayyım [*] to Diyarbakır in November 2016 had de facto shut down the City Theater by not renewing the agreements of the 31 actors/actresses of the theater. In the time being, the actors/actresses of Diyarbakır City Theater weren’t able to perform the plays that they’d prepared for the new season. They also went through hard times economically.
in the interest of building cultural bridges through poetry the INNER CHILD Foundation PRESS to publish a statement and reached the site Smakord copy of the poets of the Kurds in Western Kurdistan appeals to send their poems to the institution within a specified period of time for their anthology printed on the form.
Dear Poets,
We are looking for Kurdish poems from Rojava/North Syria that will be published in the Anthology of Kurdish Poetry by Inner Child Press.
Send us as a Word attachment
