10:51 13/5/2014 |
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Kurdish Artist Hozan Mizgin and those who lost their lives in May have been commemorated with various activities.
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11:23 08/5/2014 |
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13:12 26/4/2014 |
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he Fifth Kurdish Film Days festival organised by the Students Union of Kurdistan (YXK) began in Cologne with a showing of "The Beekeeper" a documentary film directed by Mano Khalil, from Rojava, who lives in Switzerland.
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12:28 26/4/2014 |
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The Fifth Batman Theatre Days Festival organised by the Batman Municipality is continuing. Thanks to this year's festival, organised under the slogan 'Theatre is Life, Let us liberate life', theatre is being taken to the villages for the first time. The play 'Kımıl' was watched by an appreciative audience in the village of Zilan in the Kozluk district of Batman province.
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16:05 11/4/2014 |
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Kurdish film director Shahram Mokri, from Kermanshah, Iran, has received two awards in the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) in Switzerland for his Persian film, Mahi Va Gorbeh (Fish and Cat).
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11:50 10/4/2014 |
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The London Kurdish Film Festiva will host the UK premiere of the award-winning 1001 Apples – Taha Karimi’s documentary masterpiece at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN on Sunday 13th April 2014 at 3:00pm.
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10:49 06/4/2014 |
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The independent International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels, organized by Filmmor Women’s Cooperative, has begun for the 12th time.
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14:07 03/4/2014 |
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Kurdish film director Kazım Öz, who rejected an award at this year's 36th Cinéma du Réel Film Festival in Paris for his film "He bû Tune bû" (Once upon a time) in protest at France's attitude to the Paris massacre, explained his reasons for rejecting the award to Selma Akkaya.
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11:25 03/4/2014 |
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An exhibition of the work of writer and artist Muzaffer Oruçoğlu is to open at the Municipal Gallery in Amed (Diyarbakır) on 4 April 2014. Oruçoğlu, who has had more than 50 exhibitions all over the world, is better known in Turkey as a writer.
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10:47 02/4/2014 |
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Various celebrations are being held around Kurdish regions to remember Halil (Dağ) Uysal on the anniversary of his death six years ago. He was a well known and respected filmmaker who spent more than a decade documenting the lives of Kurdish "guerillas".
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11:41 01/4/2014 |
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Kurdish film director Kazım Öz protested at the French government's attitude regarding the murders in Paris last year of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez by refusing to accept an award at this year's 36th Cinéma du Réel Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday. Öz's film "He Bû Tune Bû" (Once Upon a Time) was one of 11 documentaries deemed worthy of an award amongst 40 films shown.
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09:34 19/3/2014 |
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On Monday 17th March, the Ahwazi human rights activists have been informed by the local Ahwazi sources inside Ahwaz that the Iran occupied forces bulldozed and demolished one of the most important Arabic historical monuments known by the name of “Saray Ajam” in Ahwaz capital as an aim to eradicate the historical heritage of Ahwazi Arab people. This is not the first time that the Iranian forces target the historical buildings in Ahwaz.
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15:22 16/3/2014 |
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The independent International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels, organized by women for women, is to kick off for the 12th time in Istanbul and for the first time in Adana, Mersin, Bodrum-Mugla.
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11:28 10/3/2014 |
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Viyan Amara Academy of Research on Kurdish Language and Education that was founded by Kurdish Language Institution on 29 November 2013 for improvement of education in Kurdish language.
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11:29 04/3/2014 |
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The screening of Lars von Trier’s latest movie “Nymphomaniac” has been banned across Turkey’s movie theaters by Evaluation Classification Higher Council.
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08:03 14/2/2014 |
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In Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, the count down for the 3rd Copenhagen Kurdish Filmdays (CKF) began. For four days filmenthusiasts can enjoy a long list of films, which FOKUS-A and Cinemateket put together for the program during February 20-23.
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07:26 09/2/2014 |
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An Irish photographer is candidate for one of the most ‘prestigious’ awards in photography for documenting some scenes of everyday life in Federal Kurdistan Region.
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08:02 07/2/2014 |
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Canadian authorities at the Toronto International Airport have prevented Syrian Kurdish artist singer Xêro Abbas from visiting the United States of America.
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17:37 04/2/2014 |
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Kurdish film director Hisham Zaman has won the 'Dragon Award Best Nordic Film' for his film, 'The Letter to the King' at the Gothenburg Film Festival, the second year in succession that he has won this award.
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13:15 04/2/2014 |
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Ehmedê Xanî and Kurdish literary works, the researcher Bahar Gultekîn defined as the peak of the a biography on the records found in a small number of Xanî's recognition through the works and trying to promote Xanî's "Mem u Zin" work for the Kurds is a masterpiece that emphasizes Bahar Gultekîn, in this work of the social problems of one of the women the freedom of the problem, noting, "Xani, Zin in the person of the woman's glory and love of the Divine and on this basis a new life, how to access the path of the show, "he says.
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