Red and Green

Red and Green - 2019

10 min min - Fiction
Number: 36
Show: Monday 13 November, 13:00, Angereds Bio
Director:  Sara Faxry
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Storyline

During daily life, spontaneous events sometimes occur that become decisive for the rest of our lives.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country:  Kurdistan
Language:  Kurdish, English text

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Runtime:  0 h 10 min

Salvation Rain

Salvation Rain - 2018

12 min min - Fiction
Number: 31
Show: Monday 13 November, 18:30, Angereds Bio
Director:  Veysel Celik
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War is everywhere: east, west, north, south. The war is always valued over the people who die. But the struggle of the people who survived will continue. Thousands of people are losing their lives and leaving behind their relatives. Burying the dead and grieving in response to a loss is holy to societies. This grieving period is a recovery period. Normal grieving allows one to let a loved one go and keep on living healthily. Grieving is painful, and it's important that those who have suffered a loss be allowed to express their grief. But it can be a never-ending melancholy and a social pathology if they cannot express it. This pathology gradually increases in communities exposed to mass trauma, and the generations are entering a never-ending grief period. Janya is a symbol of societies that have not completed the grief ritual. In the "Salvation Rain" project, I first wanted to complete a personal and communal grief period. In his childhood, Janya was the only one who survived by escaping from a night massacre. After 20 years, he returns, and the repressed grief overwhelms him. To cope with the past, Janya creates his own reality in a parallel time


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country:  Kurdistan
Language:  Kurdish, English text

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Runtime:  0 h 12 min

Tearing Walls Down

Tearing Walls Down - 2023

50 min min - Documentary
Number: 21
Show: Saturday 11 November, 21:30, Hagabion Sal 1
Director:  Hebun Polat, Şerif Çiçek
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In Turkey, opposition politicians who oppose the state apparatus face violence, agitation, and repression, and they are being dismissed, persecuted, and imprisoned. Since November 4, 2016, When Erdoğan's AKP party came to power, hundreds of opposition politicians have been jailed or forced into exile to silence them. This film shows the struggle of four Kurdish women politicians, Figen Yüksekdağ, Gültan Kışanak, Aysel Tuğluk, and Sibel Yiğitalp, whose "Crime" was to fight for a hopeful and pluralistic world against an anti-democratic government.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country:  Germany,  Turkey
Language:  Kurdish, English text

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Runtime:  0 h 50 min

When the Seedlings Grow-Gava Sitil Mezin Dibin

When the Seedlings Grow-Gava Sitil Mezin Dibin - 2022

83 min min - Fiction
Number: 20
Show: Saturday 11 November, 21:30, Hagabion Sal 1 | Monday 13 November, 18:30, Angereds Bio
Director:  Rêger Azad
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While selling yogurt in Kobanê, Hüseyin and his daughter Zelal are on their way to intersect with Hemudê, who is looking for his home. Their one-day journey witnesses many misfortunes and a new society after the Kobanê war.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country:  Kobane,  Germany
Language:  Kurdish, Arabic, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Rojava Film Commune

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 23 min

Kobane

Özlem Yasar - 2022

158 min min - Fiction
Number: 19
Show: Sunday 12 November, 16:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Wednesday 15 November, 18:30, Viktoriasalen
Director:  Özlem Yasar
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Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobane, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love, and hope.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country:  Syria
Language:  Kurdish, English text

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Production Companies:  Rojava Film Commune

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 38 min

Sabaya

Sabaya - 2021

90 min min - Documentary
Number: 15
Show: Monday 13 November, 21:00, Hagabion Sal 1
Director:  Hogir Hirori
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The film follows a group in Syria's Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a woman being held by ISIS as an abducted sex slave.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country:  Sweden
Language:  Kurdish, Arabic, English text

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Runtime:  1 h 30 min

Kebab Connection

Kebab Connection - 1998

100 min min - Fiction
Number: 13
Show: Tuesday 14 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 2
Director:  Hiner Saleem
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Cheto, a Kurd political refugee living in Paris, has a French girlfriend named Christine. Cheto wants to get married, but not with Christine. What he´s looking for is a beautiful Kurdish virgin and patriot! Video camera in hand, his friend Misto goes to Kurdistan for the ideal candidate. Having found the lucky beauty, the marriage is arranged. But it´s not the chosen bride who shows up in Paris.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country:  Kurdistan
Language:  Kurdish, French, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Les Film du Rivage, Les Studio Canal+, Le Bureau Les Film De Lóust Paradise

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 40 min

Jîn / Life

Jîn / Life - 2012

122 min min - Fiction
Number: 10
Show: Thursday 16 November, 18:30, Bio Roy
Director:  Reha Erdem
Writers:  Reha Erdem (screenplay)
Stars:  Deniz Hasgüler, Onur Ünsal, Yildirim Simsek, …

Storyline

Jîn, a guerrilla, lives in a cave and decides to escape from the organization. She finds some civilian clothes and goes down from the mountain to the city. However, the city is no safer than the mountain.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country:  Turkey
Language:  Turkish, Kurdish, English text

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Runtime:  2 h 02 min

I Am the Revolution

I Am the Revolution - 2018

74 min min - Documentary
Number: 9
Show: Saturday 11 November, 16:30, Viktoriasalen
Director:  Benedetta Argentieri
Writers:  Benedetta Argentieri (co-writer)
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The inspiring story of three women risking their lives to incite political, activist, and armed uprisings in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.


Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country:  USA
Language:  English, Kurdish, Arabic, Dari, Subtitles: English

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Runtime:  1 h 14 min