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Mehmet Aktaş
Mehmet Aktaş (born 1966 in Iğdır, Turkey) is a Kurdish filmmaker, producer, author, and journalist. He is born in Turkey but lives in Germany. He is the founder and chief executive of the film production and distribution company, Mîtosfilm, in Berlin. In the mid-1990s, Aktaş came to Germany after he had finished his studies at law school in Istanbul. In Germany, he wondered because German people disregarded Near Eastern cinema, especially the Kurdish cinema. Therefore, he founded the first Kurdish Film Festival in Germany in 2002 which was supported by the "Hauptstadtkulturfonds". With Mîtosfilm Aktaş produced feature films like ''Close up Kurdistan'' (2007) directed by Yüksel Yavuz, ''Land of Legend'' (2008) directed by Rahim Zabihi, and ''Après la Chute'' (2009) directed by Hiner Saleem. In 2009, Mehmet Aktaş was successful as producer of ''No One knows about Persian Cats'' directed by Bahman Ghobadi which was honored at the Film Festival Cannes with the award ''Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iğdır
Iğdır ( Turkish ; ku, Îdir or ; hy, Իգդիր, Igdir, also ) is the capital of Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. History Iğdır went by the Armenian name of Tsolakert during the Middle Ages. s.v. "Igdir," Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1978, vol. 4, p. 309. When the Spanish traveler Ruy González de Clavijo passed through this region in the early 15th century, he stayed a night in a castle he called Egida, located at the foot of Mount Ararat. Clavijo describes it as being built upon a rock and ruled by a woman, the widow of a brigand that Timurlane had put to death. Because modern Iğdır has no such rock, and is a considerable distance from the Ararat foothills, it is believed that medieval Iğdır was located at a different site, at a place also known as Tsolakert, now called Taşburun. Russian excavations there at the end of the 19th century discovered the ruins of houses and what was identified as a church, as well as traces of fortifications. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yüksel Yavuz
Yüksel Yavuz (born 1 February 1964 in Karakoçan, Turkey) is a Kurdish people, Kurdish film director from Turkey. Early life and education Since 1980, he has lived in Germany, where he lived with his father who had found work at the port of Hamburg. From 1986 to 1989 he studied sociology and economics at the University of Hamburg and from 1992 to 1996 visual communications at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Professional career His first film from 1995 he produced for the German public broadcaster ZDF and is an autobiographical documentary about the experience of his father as a Gastarbeiter, guest worker and his mother, who stayed behind in the village. Since he has directed several documentaries and feature films. His movies often focus on the Kurdish diaspora and the signification of the homeland for the refugees and immigrants. ''Longing for Istanbul'' focuses on the several nationalities that have settled in Istanbul while ''Hope'' on the human rights of Kurdish pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiner Saleem
Huner Saleem (Kurdish language, Kurdish: هونهر سەلیم), also transliterated as Huner Salim, (born 9 March 1964), is an Iraqi people, Iraqi–Kurdish people, Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah (Akre) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now. In 1992, after the First Gulf War, he filmed undercover the living conditions of Iraqi Kurds. This footage was shown at the Venice Film Festival. In 1998, he made his first movie, ''Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan''. His second, ''Passeurs de rêves'', came out in 2000, and his third film, ''Vodka Lemon'', released in 2003, won the ''San Marco Prize'' at the Venice Film Festival] He wrote and directed all three. He was honored with the prestigious title ''Chevalier des Arts et Lettres'' by French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in 2005. His mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi ( fa, بهمن قبادی; ; born 1 February 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province, Iran) is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He belongs to the " new wave" of Iranian cinema. Biography He was born in Baneh, a Kurdish city in Iran. His family moved to Sanandaj in 1981. Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from Iran Broadcasting College. After a brief career in industrial photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm films. His documentary ''Life in Fog'' won numerous awards. Bahman Ghobadi was assistant director on Abbas Kiarostami's ''The Wind Will Carry Us''. Bahman Ghobadi founded Mij Film in 2000, a company with the aim of production of films in Iran about its different ethnic groups. His first feature film was ''A Time for Drunken Horses'' (2000), the first Kurdish film produced in Iran. The film won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature was ''Marooned in Iraq'' (2002), which brought him the Gold P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Blind Spot
''In the Blind Spot'' (german: Im toten Winkel) is a 2023 German mystery thriller film directed and written by Ayşe Polat. Starring Katja Bürkle, Ahmet Varlı, Çağla Yurga and Aybi Era, the film is about Melek, a 7–year–old Turkish girl and her father Zafer, who are drawn into a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma. It is selected in Encounter at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 19 February 2023. Synopsis In a remote Kurdish village, in northeastern Turkey, a documentary is shot by German film crew. They spot an old woman performing ritual to memory of her missing son. In the village, Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl lives, whose nanny is the Kurdish translator of the film crew. Zafer, her father works for an ominous group. When she apparently get haunted by unknown power, he gets caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being. This eventually developes into a ruinous force. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayşe Polat
Ayşe Polat (born 19 October 1970) is a German-Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Career In 1992 she releases the short film ''Fremdennacht'', which is supported by the Hamburg Film Bureau. Her 1994 short film :de:Ein_Fest_für_Beyhan, ''Ein Fest für Beyhan'' wins several awards, including the WDR sponsorship prize. ''Gräfin Sophia Hatun'' (1997) also tours several international festivals and receives the Special Jury Prize at the Ankara International Film Festival. Her feature film debut ' (1999) toured numerous international festivals and partook in the international competition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary and Tokyo International Film Festival, Tokyo. Polat received the award for best directorial debut at the Ankara International Film Festival. Her second feature film '':de:En_Garde_(Film), En Garde'' (2004) was screened as the Locarno Festival, Locarno Film Festival opening film and received the Silver Leopard for Best Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
73rd Berlin Film Festival
The 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale (), took place from 16 to 26 February 2023. It was the first completely in-person Berlinale since the 70th in 2020. The festival has added a new award for best television series this year. On 15 December 2022, the first Panorama and Generation titles for the festival were announced, and on 13 January 2023, many world premieres were added to out-of-competition lineup, including Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv's '' Golda''—a biographical film about Golda Meir, first female Prime Minister of Israel. The festival opened with American filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller's drama film ''She Came to Me''. A live video stream with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was part of the opening ceremony. On 21 February 2023, American filmmaker Steven Spielberg was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement by Irish singer-songwriter Bono. Spielberg's films were screened in the Homag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulîstan, Land Of Roses
''Gulîstan, Land of Roses'' (French title: ''Gulîstan, terre de roses'') is a 2016 feature-length documentary film about women guerillas in a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Free Women's Units, Free Women's Unit, in combat against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, directed by the Kurdish Montreal filmmaker Zaynê Akyol. Shot in Iraqi Kurdistan, the film is co-produced Montreal's Périphéria Productions, Germany's Mehmet Aktaş, MitosFilm and the National Film Board of Canada. The film was conceived and named for a woman, Gulîstan, who had been a role model for the director in her adopted home in Montreal, until she left to fight with the PKK. Akyol went to Iraq in 2010 in an unsuccessful effort to find her and make a film about her. Unable to locate Gulîstan, she found women who knew her, and the focus of the documentary shifted to telling Gulîstan's story through their memories of her. However, when she returned to Iraq to film in 2014, some of the women had died, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Wind (2016 Film)
''Reseba: The Dark Wind'' ( ku, Reṣeba) is a 2016 Iraqi film directed by Kurdish director Hussein Hassan. It made its world premiere as the opening film of the 4th Duhok International Film Festival in September 2016 and its international premiere as the closing film of the 21st Busan International Film Festival on October 15, 2016. During its screening at the Duhok International Film Festival, the film was received angrily by some in the audience as it struck close to still open wounds. Crowds flooded out before the end of the film, upset, believing the female lead Pero (who was captured and sold by the Islamic State and then raped) was killed in the film. On December 14, 2016, the Dubai Film Festival gave the Best Fiction Feature award to Hussein Hassan for this movie. Diman Zandi also received the Special Jury Award as Best Actress at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival for her performance. It was selected as the Iraqi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Without Roof
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). ''6,000 Years of Housing'' (rev. ed.) (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses may have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers. Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into another room. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic anim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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