Month: March 2022

An Introduction to Cinema in Rojava By Zanyar Omrani The following story is part of a series written by Zanyar Omrani, a Kurdish filmmaker and human rights activist who visited Rojava, or Western Kurdistan, in the spring of 2015. You can watch his film “Without Helmets” here. The history of cinema in the Western Kurdistan, […]

THE FIRST KURDISH CINEMA CONFERENCE AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION By Ali F. Sengul While being politically fragmented has been a problem for the Kurds, one wonders if this multicultural existence as a result of the political fragmentation – Kurds living in the ‘four parts’ and those living in the diaspora, this state of double-spiritedness – would […]

BY WILLIAM BROWN Over the past two weeks or so, it has been a huge honour and a great pleasure to act as a member of the jury for the 2020 London Kurdish Film Festival (as well as to do a workshop/’masterclass’ on no-budget filmmaking with them). I was lucky enough to catch 30 short […]