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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.
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
TIONS EDITOR: Anita Burdett DATE PUBLISHED: January 2016 AVAILABILITY: Not yet published - available from January 2016 FORMAT: Multiple copy pack ISBN: 9781840973259
The ninth London Kurdish Film Festival kicks off on Friday, with a comprehensive programme of features, short films and documentaries.
The festival will open with a screening of Iraq's Oscar submission for 2016, Shawkat Amin Korki’s “Memories On Stone”. Eight other films, including the award winning “Song of My Mother” by Erol Mintaş, will tackle subjects as diverse as religion in the region, incarceration, family and the recent struggles of Kurdish people.
Sahim Omar Kalifa’s Bad Hunter is one of the 10 films shortlisted for the upcoming Oscars in the category of Best Live Action Short.
On January 14, five nominees will be announced and on February 28 the award ceremony will be held.
Bad Hunter, directed by the Belgian-Kurdish director was chosen by the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences among 144 qualifying short films.
Duhok International Film Festival (IFF) kicked off at Duhok University’s Congress Hall Wednesday in the presence of a large audience.
The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Nechirvan Barzani opened the event that was followed by screening the Kurdish feature film Memories on Stone by Shawkat Ameen Kurdi.
Kurdish famous singer Shivan Perwer will release a new music video of a 30-year-old song of him.
Sponsored by Korek Telecom, the video clip of Perwer’s famous “Ez Khorte Kurdim,” translated as “I’m the Kurdish guy”, is produced by High Level Music Firm.
The scenario and direction of the graphic video are by Shereen Cihani and it was filmed on the frontlines of Gwer and Makhmur
Waar, Duhok:
Zarok TV started broadcasting in Kurdish on March 21st, Newroz day, becoming Turkey's first Kurdish-language TV channel for children.
The privately owned station Zarok (Kurdish for children) has launched Kurdish-language broadcasts from its headquarters in Diyarbakir.
Mano Khalil's The Beekeeper examines the conflict between the Turks and the Kurds through the eyes of a sole protagnonist: a Kurdish man working as a beekeeper in Switzerland. By creating an intimate portrait of this man's life and philosophy, Khalil expands the thematic relevance of the conflict to the rest of the world. The film will screen on June 17 at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
With more sorrow and grief we mourn our colleague the poet and director of Duhok radio station Kamiran Rasheed Barwari who in 21/22/ 6/2014 after a severe struggle with sickness left us.
Kamiran Rasheed Barwari was a famous poet in Duhok Province and Kurdistan Region and always has a good p;ace in the variety activities of the Union of Kurdish Writers – Duhok and he took part in several times the writers delegations to abroad.
With Peshmerga forces fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in Iraqi disputed regions, Kurdish pop singer Helly Luv sends out a message for them and pleads to God to protect Peshmarga forces.
On her Facebook page, Helly Luv recently posted photos of herself wearing a sand-colored suit inspired by the Kurdish sharwal, with a traditional jamana scarf wrapped around her torso. Posed with a gun, she stands looking off into the distance.
Galawezh festival which would include the name of renowned intellectuals, writers and educated people worldwide, the cultural and literary works which have been received by the preparation committee of the festival, which consists of 31 researchs, 84 poems and 38 stories would demonstrate the importance of the festival for the intellectuals and writers.
The festival shall be held in Sulaymani, at the Sulaymani Palas starting Nov. 21 to Nov. 25, 2013, the festival will include Iraqi, Kurds and international artists.
PUKmedia
In this year's edition Duhok IFF is showcasing a series of Special Screenings in addition to its main programme. One of them is dedicated to Taha Karimi with a selection of his films.
Taha Karimi is among the most famous Kurdish filmmakers of our time who dealt with the political struggle of the Kurdish people in his works. Duhok IFF is going to present Karimi's films “1001 Apples” and “White Mountain”.
