Kurdish filmmaker Halkawt Mustafa's latest feature will make its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, ...

WHEN Zaradasht Ahmed, a Norwegian-Kurdish director, began shooting his war documentary, a complicated process spanning more than five years awaited him. “Nowhere to Hide” (2016, pictured), an ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. LONDON - "This festival is a key part of creating Kurdish cinema. There is hardly any Kurdish cinema-going ...

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 ...

The Zagros Film Festival started today (March 1). The festival, where 15 Kurdish films will meet the audience online, will continue throughout March. Among the films that can be watched during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...