Directed by Jubrail Abubakr, the short film stood out among 1,600 entries from 100 countries, marking another milestone for ...

Made in 1933, “Kurdên Êzidî” (Êzidî Kurds) will be screened for the first time as part of the 2nd İstanbul Kurdish Film Festival, which will be held on March 24-29, 2022. The 2nd İstanbul Kurdish Film ...

The 3rd Amed Film Festival, which brought together the memory, politics, and aesthetic pursuits of Kurdish cinema, came to a close with an awards ceremony held on Dec 14 at the ÇandAmed Congress ...

The scream of passing jets bridges the cut from the opening credits to a low angle tracking shot passing below telephone lines in the desert. This immediately establishes the sort of culture clash ...

Bahman Ghobadi, Dogpatch fabulist and dean of Iranian Kurdish cinema, leads another magical mystery tour through his mountainous homeland—populated, per usual, by a small army of cute urchins, ...

And I'm Madeleine Brand. Three years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq has become a cultural magnet of sorts for Kurds around the world. Artists, writers, film ...

Bahman Ghobadi confirms his place as the poet laureate of Kurdish cinema with "Turtles Can Fly," an engrossing, nuanced pic about orphaned children in a refugee camp on the Iraq-Turkish border just ...

New York zine collective and radio station 8-Ball Community and the North American Rojava Alliance (NARA), which provides activist support for the people of Rojava, has teamed up to announce the ...

For Kurds, a nation without a state, artistic expression in recent decades has tended to have a strong political flavor. Now, however, some Kurdish filmmakers are attempting to break out of the old ...