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The Love of Music
Director: Yusuf Yesiloz
Switzerland / 2008 / 53 mins / German, Turkish and Georgian with English subtitles
Three musicians, two women and a man, whose lives could not be more different have one thing that binds them: they all had to leave their home countries and interrupt successful music careers. Today all three live in Switzerland where they have reinvented their artistic identity. A film full of hope and melancholy, warm-heartedness and homesickness.
My Prison My Home
Director: Mano Khalil
Switzerland / 2009 / 33mins / Kurdish (Kurmanji, Behdinani) with English subtitles
During the Anfal operations in Kurdistan, Saddam Hussein’s security forces imprisoned hundreds of Kurdish families in the Nizarke prison where they awaited death but dreamt of freedom. The fall of Saddam’s regime saved many of them but they had nowhere to go because their villages were completely destroyed and all their possessions lost. These families are now forced to live in the very cells in which they were imprisoned.
Newroz in Loneliness
Director: Hiwa Soofia
East Kurdistan (Iran) / 2009 / 25 mins / Kurdish (Hawrami) with English subtitles
Throughout all of Iran the first day of spring (Farwardeen) is also the New Year and is celebrated on the 21st of March. However in one village called (Chashmeer) in the Kurdish region they celebrate Newroz on a different day and in a different way.
Oil, the Cancer of My City
Director: Taha Karimi
East Kurdistan (Iran) / 2008 / 20mins / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles
This documentary is about oil in Iraq in particular in Kurdistan and the troubled city of Kirkuk. The film shows the tiring and harsh life of people living in the outskirts of the city and their search for the oil that provides their basic needs.
On the Way to School
Directors: Orhan Eskikoy & Ozgur Dogan
North Kurdistan (Turkey) / 2008 / 81mins / Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Turkish with English Subtitles
A fly-on-the-wall documentary shot mainly in the classroom. Dilemmas starts when Emre, a young Turkish teacher arrives in a Kurdish village to teach children who do not speak Turkish. Though full of frustration, anger and loneliness he determined to accomplish his task. It’s a wonderfully made documentary that shows the impact of Turkish assimilation policies upon Kurdish children who are not allowed to take education in their mother tongue.
One Day Full of Pain
Director: Sattar Chomani Gol
East Kurdistan (Iran) / 2008 / 20mins / Kurdish (Sorani) with English Subtitles / 18
This is a documentary about an old man in Kurdistan who heals broken bones using only his hands.


