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KurdishCinema.com - November 2007
| An exiled director's representation of his own people, Kurds / by Devrim Kilic
people in Long Live the Bride is to some extent problematic. >>> 2 May 2007 |
| David & Layla in Italy this friday - Jalal Jonroy's message to the festival
Kurdistan when I first read Romeo & Juliet in English. >>> 3 May 2007 |
| Silence tells often much more than words / interview with Hiner Saleem
nourishment which is necessary both with birth and death. DOL means ‘drum/drums’ in Kurdish, but has also another meaning. It can also mean ‘valley’. Thus DOL refers to the musical life in a hilly country." >>> April 10, 2007 The first film about Kurds, Zeré is 80 years old / by Rohat Alakom
as a subject matter is the film titled Zeré, shot in 1926 in Armenia. Shot by a famous Armenian director Hamo Beknazaryan (1892-1965) who is accepted as the founder of the Armenian cinema, the film Zeré takes place in Kurdish villages of Armenia. >>> April 7, 2007 |
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| KurdishCinema.com May 2007 Bahman Ghobadi: The Poetics of Politics by Felix Koch
difficult circumstances in his home country, Iran, Ghobadi is a restless man, driven to document and portray the fate of the Kurds... >>> 16 May 2007 |
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Reading a screenplay / by Jalal Jonroy
experience, read a screenplay - like seeing a film or a play- in one go, at worst within the same day. >>> 12 June 2007 |
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Release of Hallf Moon around the world
"HalfMoon" will be released in different countries around the world. >>> 8 July 2007 |
David and Layla: A love story / by Matthew
to break down stereotypes and open up new ways of regarding “the other.” >>> 8 July 2007 |
| My big, fat, Jewish-Kurdish wedding? / by Tom Tugend
dumps domineering Jewish fiancée when he falls for lovely Kurdish Muslim girl. >>> 22 July 20007 |
Bahman Ghobadi and Jose Saramago in Spain
Saramago will attend together a conference in Madrid, Spain. >>> 22 July 2007 |
Great success of Half Moon in Spain
Ghobadi, Half Moon, was screened in several cinemas in Spain and became the 2nd best- selling movie in cinemas in the country. >>> 5th of August 2007 |
Half Moon in Melbourne Australia
Melbourne Interanational Festival on 10th of August at 5 pm at Forum Theatre. >>> 5th of August 2007 |
| "I have problems with the borders" / an interview with Bahman Ghobadi by Michael Guillen
filled with mirthful light. He is a small man but a few sentences into our interview made me... >>> 5th of August 2007 |
| Call for submissions to 2nd Iraqi Short Film Festival
Festival will be held from the 18th of August 2007, for three days. >>> 7 August 2007 |
| Amsterdam Film eXperience 2007 is now accepting submissions
(AFX) is a short film festival that takes place in Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. >>> 10 August 2007 |
| Bahman ghobadi as a Jury in the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival
Director, is invited to Spain as a Jury for the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival. >>> 19 August 2007 |
A Kurdish director: Shewket Amin Korki
Kurdish director who was born in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan, in 1973. >>> 8 September 2007 |
Call for 5th London Kurdish Film Festival
Kurdish Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the festival which will be held in London in December 2007. >>> 18th of September 2007 |
| Bahman Ghobadi discusses his new feature, "Half Moon" / By Jim Quilty
Bahman Ghobadi discusses his new feature, "Half Moon," >>> 9 October 2007 |
Call for Yılmaz Güney Short Film Competition
London Kurdish Film festival in memory of the great Kurdish director Yılmaz Güney. >>> October 9 2007 |
Screening of `David the Tholhildan` in London
the Tholdildan `will be screened in London on Monday 5th of November.... >>> November 3 2007 |
Sharon Stone praises Bahman Ghobadi
Stone praised Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi after watching Turtles Can Fly. >>> November 3 2007 |
| Gutsy Jewish-Kurdish romance goes after more than laughs / by Jeff Shannon
abandonment of exiled Kurds (as when Layla tells David "we got saved from Saddam by the same... >>> November 3 2007 |
Paris Kurdish Film Festival was successful
Festival in Paris took place from 24 to 30 October 2007 at the Film Latin Quarter in Paris 5th. >>> 13 November 2007 |
| Q&A with Bahman Ghobadi for Passion for Cinema / by, Kavita Kasturi * Q: How different are your films from the rest of the Iranian Films? In their making and their content? For a lay person, especially a non-Iranian, a Persian, a Kurd, an Iraqi all are quite the same, how do you ensure that it does not happen and that .. >>> November 27, 2007 |
| 5th London Kurdish Film Festival will kick off The organising committee of the Kurdish Film Festival is delighted to welcome you to the 5th London Kurdish Film Festival. The final preparations for the festival have taken place during a very difficult period for the Kurds all around the world, with Turkey's threat of military incursions into South Kurdistan (Iraq). >>> 29 November 2007 |
| Diary of the 5th London Kurdish Film Festival >>> 29 November 2007 |
