In the 21st century, there was a people who lived among four states. It was a people living with no identity, no country, no language. Yet Kurds always resisted to the various occupiers. The world got to know the Rojava Revolution. And Rojava also got to know its historical identity with the Revolution. Those who had been deprived of their own education opened schools, universities and academies in their own language.
One of these academies was the academy of art and culture, named Yekta Herekol (after a revolutionary artist who died in Aleppo in 2004).
One of the departments in this academy was the cinema department.
Those who had never go to the movies in their life, who could not read or write in their own language, applied to this department and studied cinema. And began to make movies. This is our story …
Original Title: Evîn Di Rûyê Qirkirinê De
International Title: Love in the Face of Genocide
Director: Sêro Hindî (Shero Hinde)
Duration: 52’
Original Language: Kurdish
Gender: Documentary
Production Country and Year: Northern and Eastern Syria Federation-Rojava, 2021
Production: Rojava Film Commune, Nadiya Derwish
Director of Photography: Hogir Qolan
Editing: Eli Feqe
Music: Mehmud Berazi
The Director
Hogir Qolan was born in the town of Dirbesiye in Rojava in 1988. He graduated from the Martyr Yekta Herekol Art Academy in 2016 and is a Rojava Film Commune member and activist.
He directed the short film DERWEŞ and he wrote and directed 12X1. He worked as cameraman in Darên Bi Tenê by Sêro Hindî.
