Filme

22.11. Mittwoch

ZEISE KINO

Gava Şitil Mezin Dibin

Fiction Feature

18:00 Uhr

Rojava – North East Syria | 2022 | 83 mins | Kurdish with English subtitles

Rêger Azad Kaya was born in the Ağrı city of Turkey ( Northern Kurdistan) in 1992. He studied at Akdeniz University, Department of Radio-Television and Cinema in Antalya. He made traveling documentaries for various Kurdish TV channels. Then he moved to North East Syria and worked as a cinematographer and editor in short films. He worked as an actor and casting director in the film Kobanê. Then he shot his own feature film „Gava Şitil Mezin Dibin“ with a collective team. He still carries out cinema activities in North East Syria.
While selling yogurt in Kobanê, Hüseyin and his daughter Zelal are on their way; intersects with Hemudê, who is looking for his home. Their one-day journey witnesses many misfortunes and a new society after the Kobanê war.

22.11. Mittwoch

ZEISE KINO

Dartaş

Short Film

18:00 Uhr

East Kurdistan – Iran | 2023 | 14 mins | Kurdish with English subtitles
Xelîl Sehragerd born and raised in 1980 in Meriwan, Kurdistan. He started his careeras a photographer, filmmaker and editor in 1987. He had two galleries of his own in Meriwan and Sne. He is a member of the Iranian Photographers Association.
An old Kurdish man (Hussein Mahmood) who is a carpenter tries to make artificial legs for people who have lost their legs.

23.11. Donnerstag

Kino 3001

Partridge Nation

Documentary

18:00 Uhr

Der Regisseur wird anwesend sein

Sweden,Türkei | 2022 | Kurdish with English subtitles | 24mins



Savas Boyraz (born in 1980) lives in Stockholm. He contributed to various movie productions of the Mezopotamya Cinema Collective between 1998 and 2006 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Photography Department of Mimar Sinan Fine ArtsUniversity, Istanbul in 2009. Got his degree in Fine Arts in Art in Public Realm Master Program at Konstfack, Stockholm, in 2012.

He has been selected by Lausanne Photography Museum for the reGeneration2 exhibitions and book 2010. He also took part in 53. Venice Biennale through “Planet-Kurdistan”. With his work “Invisible Landscapes” he was awarded with Victor Masters Fellowship by Hasselblad Foundation, and took part in New Nordic Photography exhibition in 2013. Alongside his artistic works, since 2016, he collaborated with social researchers from Bergen University, Norway, to produce research related educational films. Currently a PhD Candidate in Film and Media at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Partridge Nation is a visual deconstruction of a contemporary political mythology in the Kurdish mountains. It follows the practice of partridge hunting and its political connotations in a colonial context, creating a set of new imaginings proposing an alternative visual vocabulary of a cultural-self-defence.

23.11. Donnerstag

Kino 3001

Buried in Water, Not in the Earth

Documentary

18:00 Uhr

Der Regisseur wird anwesend sein
Turkey | Kurdish, Turkish with English subtitles | 71mins

29th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival Turkey September 18, 2022 Jury special prize

Fetullah Celik was born in the village of Yalaza, Lice district, Diyarbakir province. He works as the managing director and founder of a school bus company. He has been making qualified videos and photos as documentary films since 2013.
During the humanoid of dams built to meet the increasing demands of humans, nature is being destroyed. In the 1950s, when the construction of the Ilısu Dam on the Tigris River was started, although many actions and activities were carried out to cancel it, the dam was built. The experiences, culture and history of tens of villages and districts in the dam area were submerged with the construction of the dam.

24.11. Freitag

Kino 3001

Seven Symphonies of Zagros

Documentary

18:00 Uhr

East Kurdistan – Iran | 2021 | 23 mins | Kurdish with English subtitles

Perwîz Rostemî, born in 1977 in Oraman Takht, studied painting at university. In 2001 he made his first film, My Shoes. Since then he has made many more short films, including Pachal (2011), The Melody of Stone (2011), The Scarecrows Also Die (2012), Neighbors of the Sky (2013), and Wa Zaban (2013), Seven Symphonies of the Zagros won Best Short Kurdish Film at the 8th Duhok International Film Festival in 2021.
Seven Zagros Symphonies narrates the philosophy of seven musical Maqams of the oldest wind instrument (Shamshal) in the life of the Zagros people. The Seven Maqams is narrated using the monologue of an old man who spent 65 years of his life playing the Shamshal (a Kurdish wind Instrument).

24.11. Freitag

Kino 3001

The Mountains, a Feminine Narration

Documentary

18:00 Uhr

East Kurdistan – Iran | 2023 | 26 mins | Kurdish with English subtitles


Rebwar Mahmoud Pour born in 1985 from Dezli village(Uraman region, eastern Kurdistan). Be holder of Bachelor degree of geography from Tabriz university and Master of geography from Kharazmi university. Graduated from the filmmaking (directory) at IYCS- Sanandaj office.
This film is about waiting women who are looking at the mountains so that their loved ones can return home, but …

24.11. Freitag

Kino 3001

Ronahiya Male

Documentary

18:00 Uhr

Turkey | 2023 | 21 mins | Kurdish with English subtitles
Gökhan Çetin was born in Diyarbakır in 1991. Graduated from Dicle University, Department of Electrical and Electronics. He works as a director, cameraman and editor in various TV, Radio and Media outlets. He still makes various documentaries and short films, especially human rights stories. He also works as an electrician. He bakeme many Awards a journalist. In 2018, he participated in the European Union human rights themed short film competition with the movie „Stateless“ and received the special jury award. The movie „Stateless“ was screened in the Screening Selection of the Human Rights Films Section of the 11th Balkan Beyond Borders Short Film Festival held in 2020.

Çimen Şevişoğlu Çetin was born in 1990 in Silopi District of Sirnak. When she was a child, her family emigrated to northern Iraq for political reasons. She grew up in Iraq. In 2011 she returned to Turkey and studied literature at the Cegerxwin Cultural Center for two years. She is the producer and cinematographer of the film „Stateless“. She is currently writing Kurdish scripts and translations for numerous short films and documentaries.
It is the story of 10-year-old Cemile Çağırgan, who was killed during the curfew in Cizre on 4-15 September 2015 and whose body was kept in the refrigerator of the house for 3 days.

24.11. Freitag

Kino 3001

Baghdad Messi

Fiction Feature

20:00 Uhr

Belgium | 2023 | 85 mins | Arabic with German subtitles.


Sahim Omar Kalifa (Iraqi Kurdistan, 1980) started making films when he was seventeen. In 2001, he moved to Belgium, where he attended the Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. He works as a director.
Baghdad, 2009. The talented Hamoudi (11) lives for football. During a junior match, the boy gets seriously injured in a horrible suicide attack. When he wakes up in hospital, he has lost one leg and all his future dreams. While his parents try to provide safety for their family, Hamoudi tries to keep his passion for football alive.

25.11. Samstag

Mut Theater

Panel 1.

The relationship between cinema and fine art

Peywendiya di navbera Sînema û hunera şêwekariyê de

Lukman Ahmad was born in a Kurdish town in northeastern Syria (Rojav) called Al-Darbasiyah in 1972 adjacent to the Turkish border, and grew up in the city of Al-Hasakah.

He immersed himself in art by personal effort and self-education. Lukman came to the United States in 2010 as a political refugee and has settled in Virginia since that time, in addition to his work as a journalist and cultural arts presenter for the Kurdish service /Voice of America in Washington, DC, since 2014. He began his art journey in America in 2010 by participating in art activities in washington DC, and other states through group or individual exhibitions in addition to art workshops. He participated in many exhibitions and art activities in many countries of the worlds including Syria, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan, Switzerland, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy , France, UK…

Lukman received many awards, the most recent of which was 2022 Kathleen K. Seefeldt Awards for Arts Excellence in Virginia also appreciation and recognition from the US Congress.

Panel 2.

James Joyce’s Ulysses in Kurdish: A Long Journey

Ulyssesa James Joyce bi Kurdî: Rêwîtiyeke Dûr û Dirêj

Kawa Nemir, poet and translator, was born in 1974 in Igdir, Northern Kurdistan. He studied English language and literature at Hacettepe University in Ankara and at the University of Istanbul. Between 1997 and 2003, he worked as the editor of the Kurdish literary magazines Jiyana Rewşen and Rewşen-Name. In 2003, he founded the publishing house Bajar (Town).

To date, he has translated 106 books by many great British, American and Irish poets, novelists and dramatists into Kurdish. Nemir actively participates in the Kurdish theatre. In 2012, his translation, Hamlet, – its world premiere was organized in Amsterdam – was performed by the City Theatre of Diyarbakir, in which he played the part of Hamlet, the King. He wrote the theatrical adaptation of the Mem and Zîn of Ehmedê Xanî (Ahmad-i Khani) and it was performed by the City Theatre of Diyarbakir in 2014. He translated the librettos of the opera Tosca by Puccini into Kurdish and it premiered in 2019 in Amsterdam. His translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare was staged in 2019. Nemir has translated James Joyce’s Ulysses into Kurdish. In 2010, he was awarded the Feqî Huseyn Sağnıç Language Award, which is annually given by the Kurdish Institute of Istanbul, in honour of his services to the Kurdish language. Translating Ulysses, a documentary made by Aylin Kuryel and Fırat Yücel about his translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, was released in 2023. Nemir lives in Amsterdam.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

The Good Samaritan Girl

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Germany | 30 mins


Johee Oh is a Korean filmmaker based in Korea, Vietnam and Germany. She is a graduate of the BA degree in Film at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Currently, she is doing BA degree in Archaeology at Humboldt University and MA degree in Film at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. In 2021, she participated in the animation/graphic part of the documentary film „Die Kundin“ nominated for DOK.fest München, and wrote and directed the film „The Good Samaritan Girl“ in 2023. Johee Oh is focusing particularly on the subject of Diaspora, social integration and Identity.
A refugee becomes a samaritan. It’s a film about the lives of two people who are out of touch with society. The friendship of two girls from different cultural circles arose in need.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

The Apple

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Turkey | 15mins



Mehmet Acaruk has been doing professional photography for about ten years. He worked for a long time in Iz Magazine, with the editor-in-chief of Ara Güler, who is known as a master photographer in Turkey and around the world. He took important roles in the “Fotografevi” (which is known as a workshop, exhibition, Iz Magazine, and publishing house), the Turkey representative of „Magnum Photos“. He worked as a specialist sociologist in Turkey’s many important civil organizations (TEGV, ZENTARA).

He tried to transfer the story language he obtained from photography to cinema. It can be seen the effects of sociologist identity in all his works. He is of the opinion that all artistic and social disciplines should be addressed with aesthetic integrity. He takes his motivation for making movies from this claim.
Zerya is a refugee woman in her 50s living in Paris. When she was only 22 years old, she had to leave her country because of the chemical gas thrown into the city of Halabja by Saddam Hussein on March 16, 1988. She has lived in France for 30 years. Visiting a painting exhibition in Paris, Zerya said, „This is not an apple,“ from Magritte’s Betrayal of Images series. This painting reveals Zerya’s past traumas. Zerya establishes both a historical and aesthetic relationship between the „apple with cloves“, which expresses love in Kurdish mythology, the smell of apples in the gas used in the massacre, and Magritte’s painting. She expresses the relationship of the painting with its own tragedy in a different

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Small Room

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Iraq | 14 mins


Kamiran Betesi was born in 1972 in „Zakho“ Kurdistan, Iraq. He is a director, scriptwriter and photographer who worked in many areas of video productions. He has directed television documentaries and programs, then he started to makes films. His most known films are his short, „Black Mirror“ and „Roshan“ „A Long Night” and “Silhouette” He has won many awards and has participated in many different festivals including Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival.
Two poor siblings teenager work in graveyard by selling flowers in order to provide pills for their sick grandpa, but when they find a fine casket to sell, Shexo the graveyard guard becomes the obstacle!

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Life gone with the wind

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Iran | 6 mins


Siavash Saedpanah was born in Sanandaj city in Kurdistan province. He is the director of 10 short films and a lecturer at the University of Arts in the field of cinema. He has been working in cinema since 1990 and has made ten short films so far, including his most important films “Life Gone with the Wind” and “The Pomegranate Tree”. His film won several prizes at international festivals, including the Rome Pathological Jury Special Award and the Best British Short Film Award, and received three Rafdin Baghdad International Awards in three areas.
A woman’s life is destroyed in the traditional and cultural beliefs of the village as a child, and the woman inevitably follows her unfinished and childish dreams with a childish atmosphere in her old age, which .

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Long Sunset

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Iran |  Kurdish with English subtitles | 6 min


Sabah Mohammadi is a graduate of drama literature from Sourah University of Tehran, author of several screenplays published in Khane Cinema, director of the first short film titled „Long Evening“
Sama loves her bangles.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Recasted

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Iraq | Kurdish with English subtitles | 6 mins


Rowal Navgundî was born in the small town of Duhok called Sarsing. He is a filmmaker, screenwriter and actor from Kurdistan. He is also a musician and plays many instruments
12 years old mamo challenges his real life after coming back from a big-budget production, where he was the main actor.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Baby Ant

Short Film

16:00 Uhr

Turkey | 2023 | 15 mins | Kurdish, Turkish with English subtitles.


DERYA was born in Siverek (Turkey) in 1991. She worked as an actress in national and international productions including „Soeur d’armes“ (France / US, 2019) by Caroline Fourest, „Neighbours“ (Switzerland, 2021) by Mano Khalil and „The Four Walls“ (Turkey / US, 2021) by Bahman Ghobadi. „BABY ANT“ is her first short film as a director.
Tomorrow is an important day, Ayser will pay a visit to her husband in prison. But before then, she has to finish suing clothes to pay the lawyer, settle a dispute with her sister Emine and convince her daughter Deniz that children are not allowed in prison.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

ÇANAX

Short Film

18:00 Uhr

Turkey | 2023 | 16 mins | Kurdish with English subtitles.

Sevim Kaplan Akan is 33 years old and a mother of two children. She previously worked in the field of photography and has worked on many short films. “ÇANAX” is her first short film.

Musa (65), who was sensitive in fulfilling his religious duties, had only one shortcoming in this regard: To perform the duty of Hajj. He has made all the necessary preparations. He is waiting for his name to emerge from the pilgrim candidates drawing lots. However, even though he had made the necessary official application years ago, he became suspicious when even those who applied after him went on pilgrimage. He begins to investigate. He learns that his file is constantly swept under the carpet on the grounds that he has a dish antenna/satellite receiver in his house. He has got very angry and takes a sudden decision and implements it.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Translating Ulysses

Documentary

18:00 Uhr

Netherlands, Turkey| 2022 | 70 mins | Dutch, English, Kurdish, Turkish with German subtitles.
Aylin Kuryel Aylin Kuryel has a PhD degree from Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, she is based in Amsterdam teaching at the University of Amsterdam. Among her films are Taboo (2008, Third Prize in !f İstanbul Film Festival), Ayşegül in Rebellion (2011, Third Movie Award in Hrant Dink Foundation), Welcome Lenin (2016, Special Jury Award at Documentarist Film Festival) and A Defense (2021). 2021 A Defense (Director, short documentary), 16 min. 2020 The Balcony and Our Dreams (Director, short documentary), 14 min. 2019 Heads and Tails (Co-director, mid-length documentary), 59 min. Awards: Special Mention in Istanbul Film Festival 2016 Welcome Lenin (Co-director, short documentary), 20 min. Awards: Special Mention in Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days 2016


Fırat Yücel Fırat Yucel is a film critic and a filmmaker. He co-founded Altyazı Monthly Cinema Magazine in 2001, and worked as the magazine’s editor in chief since then. He co-directed Kapalı Gişe (Only Blockbusters Left Alive, 2016), worked as the co-editor of the documentaries Welcome Lenin and Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater in 2016. In 2019, he co-directed Heads and Tails with Aylin Kuryel.
Kawa Nemir undertakes a literary mission considered to be impossible: Translating James Joyce’s Ulysses into Kurdish, an oppressed language in Turkey, his country of origin. Due to the political conditions in Turkey, he takes refuge in Amsterdam as a writer in residence at Anne Frank’s former house where he continues this mission.

25.11. Samstag

Kino 3001

Sonne

Fiction Feature

20:00 Uhr

Austria | 2022| 87 mins | Kurdish, German



Kurdwin Ayub was born in Iraq in 1990 and currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied painting and experimental animation at the city’s University of Applied Arts and dramatic arts at its Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2010, her short films have screened at various festivals and solo presentations at home and abroad and have won awards including the Vienna Independent Shorts Newcomer prize. Her first feature-length documentary Paradies! Paradies!, which she wrote, directed and shot, screened at international festivals and won several awards.

In a moment of ordinary madness, three girlfriends decide to shoot a burqa music video. Yesmin is Kurdish and wears a headscarf, Bella describes herself as “half-Yugo(slavian)” and Nati “comes from Austria”. They get along like a house on fire in their Viennese “twerk bitch” dialect. Yasmin’s little brother – no saint himself – squeals on Yesmin to their parents. But who could have known that Yesmin’s cool dad would “like” their video and would start chauffeuring these “talented women” from one Muslim community festivity to another. The three soon become famous, but then their views begin to diverge: Bella and Nati find a surprising new cause in the shape of Kurdish patriotism; but, caught between the reality show of her own life and the many others in her smartphone, Yesmin starts to feel alienated from her culture, her religion, the chauvinists around her and, finally, even from her friends.

26.11. Sonntag

Zeise Kinos

Im toten Winkel

Fiction Feature

16:00 Uhr

Die Regisseurin wird anwesend sein
Germany | 2023 | 118 min | German, Turkish, Kurdish, English

Ayşe Polat born in 1970 in Malatya, Turkey, Ayşe Polat studied German, philosophy and cultural studies and works as a director, screenwriter and producer. Her debut film Auslandstournee (2000) won several prizes at international festivals. Her second film En Garde (2004) opened the Locarno Film Festival and was awarded the Silver Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress. In 2006, Polat staged her first theatrical work at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer theatre, entitled “Otobüs.”

Simone wants to learn more about Hatice, whose son was abducted a quarter of a century ago. Storytelling to prevent forgetting, rituals to contest disappearance. The lives of the Kurdish people – lives lived in a blind spot – are characterised by violence and resistance to an uncertain existence. Strange incidents soon overshadow the filming as well: turning up alongside interpreter Leyla and directly in front of the camera is the neighbour’s little daughter Melek, with her pretty purple dress and a mysterious gaze that goes right through you. What follows is a subtly framed, coldly brutal political thriller told in three chapters and from multiple perspectives. For it is not only the strategies of sinister organisations and the logic of paranoia that is the focus of this clever and complex cinematic conundrum, but the act of seeing itself – in all its dimensions, from observation to prophecy. The blind spot is in fact trauma, of the transgenerational kind.

26.11. Sonntag

Zeise Kinos

Preisverleihung und Abschluss

16:00 Uhr