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SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1
 THE FORGOTTEN
Director: Mansur Tural
Kurdistan-France 2001 / 13m /
French, Turkish and Kurdish with French subtitles
The film covers events of a day in which the time keeps
changing constantly. A postman dong his round asks some
questions.
DEAD ALIVE
Director: Mansur Tural
Kurdistan-France 2001 / 10m /
Kurdish and French with no subtitles
A short film that explores the border between life and
death, being and non-being: a world in which personal freedoms
and social responsibilities are recognised as going hand in
hand, and are indestructible.
HOPE
Director: Mansur Tural
Kurdistan-France 2002 / 18m /
Kurdish with French subtitles
Hasan and Rojda are husband and wife. Because of the state
terror, they flee from Kurdistan for France, while leaving
their three children with Hasan’s brother in Kurdistan.
A BREATH OF DEATH
Directors: Lina Abdulkarim & Dilek Boztas
Britain
2002 / 7m / English
A brief informative piece which explains the basics of
chemical bombing and what happened to the Kurdish village of
Halabja in 1988.
 THREE FIGURES OF A MOUNTAIN-MAN WHO WISHES HE WAS
A SEAL
Director: Ibrahim Selman
Netherlands 1991 / 38m /
Kurdish and Dutch with English subtitles
This television drama deals with the experiences of Ibu
Kordo, a Kurd. On March 16, 1988 his hometown Halabja is
bombed with chemical weapons by Iraq. When he comes back from
a business trip he finds all the inhabitants lying dead in the
streets, among the victims his own daughter. Ibu Kordo escapes
Iraq and arrives in the Netherlands.
SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2
 RIGHTS OF PASSAGE
Director: Simon Brown
Producer: Maria Pavlou
Cast:
Arsalan Nawroly, Dana Jalal, Hardi Rashid, Zolfa Afrazi,
Karzan Krekar
Britain 2002 / 25m / Kurdish with English
subtitles
Two Kurdish friends, Nawrol and Saman, arrive at the
Sangatte refugee camp in Northern France on their way to
England. That night they break into the nearby Channel Tunnel,
and nearly succeed in jumping on a train. However, playing the
hero, Nawrol stops to help a young kid, Mohammed...
TO STAY OR TO GO
Director: Resul Gultutan
Switzerland 2001 / 23m /
Kurdish with English subtitles
War often drives families from their homelands. Children
are often able to adapt to their new lives quickly unlike
their parents who have difficulties in coping with many
aspects of their new lives. But what really happens to the
older members of the family?
 BERIVAN
Director: Miraz Bezar
Germany 1995 / 12m / No
dialogue
A day in the life of ten-year-old Berivan and her family. A
family without a father. Her mother is working all day, so
Berivan takes care of the household and her little
brother.
It is a normal day. But in the evening, Berivan
makes a decision.
 BELLA AND REAL
Director: Borje Beratt
Sweden 2002 / 27m / Swedish and
Kurdish with English subtitles
Real, an immigrant soccer team recruits a Swedish coach, to
create order. All of the players want to play centre as their
fathers also demand. Sammi, patriarch of a Kurd family has a
son on the team and a daughter Bella with the impossible dream
of becoming the goalkeeper.
 DEATH IN EXILE
Director: Ayten Mutlu Saray
Switzerland 2002 / 27m /
French and Kurdish with English subtitles
Khalil, a Palestinan refugee who grew up in Algeria, is in
prison waiting to be deported. Memories of his homeland
accompany him during this long wait. The story of the film is
based on the real case of Khalil Abuzarifeh who died in Zurich
on 3rd March 1999 while awaiting deportation from
Switzerland.
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