22.11. Mittwoch
ZEISE KINO
Gava Şitil Mezin Dibin
Fiction Feature
18:00 Uhr
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.
22.11. Mittwoch
ZEISE KINO
Dartaş
Short Film
18:00 Uhr
23.11. Donnerstag
Kino 3001
Partridge Nation
Documentary
18:00 Uhr
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.
23.11. Donnerstag
Kino 3001
Buried in Water, Not in the Earth
Documentary
18:00 Uhr
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.
24.11. Freitag
Kino 3001
Seven Symphonies of Zagros
Documentary
18:00 Uhr
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.
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.
24.11. Freitag
Kino 3001
Ronahiya Male
Documentary
18:00 Uhr
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.
24.11. Freitag
Kino 3001
Baghdad Messi
Fiction Feature
20:00 Uhr
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.
25.11. Samstag
Mut Theater
Panel 1.
The relationship between cinema and fine art
Peywendiya di navbera Sînema û hunera şêwekariyê de
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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“
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
25.11. Samstag
Kino 3001
Baby Ant
Short Film
16:00 Uhr
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.
25.11. Samstag
Kino 3001
ÇANAX
Short Film
18:00 Uhr
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.
25.11. Samstag
Kino 3001
Translating Ulysses
Documentary
18:00 Uhr
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.
25.11. Samstag
Kino 3001
Sonne
Fiction Feature
20:00 Uhr
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.
26.11. Sonntag
Zeise Kinos
Im toten Winkel
Fiction Feature
16:00 Uhr
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.