February 2022

In January 2018, Serêkaniyê-based director and photographer Azed Evdikê is in Afrin a few days before the Turkish attack on the city. He came with a caravan of artists to prepare a week of cultural activities that were supposed to celebrate the coexistence in peace of the many nations, languages…

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…

A librarian trying to create a culture of reading in a society away from books.Original Title: Pirtûkxane International Title: Library Director: Zilan Hemo Original Language: Kurdish Duration: 12’24’’ Production Country and Year: Northern and Eastern Syria Federation-Rojava, 2020 Production: Rojava Film Commune The Director Zilan Hemo was born in Kobanê on…

After the war in Kobane families come back to their destroyed city and houses. Children of this families are looking for their old belongings in the debris in order to put their old life together again.  Original Title: Piştî şer International Title: After the war Director: Zilan Hemo Original Language:…

The film is about a mural in one of the houses in Shehba. The house where child Roshan lives. The painting is a convoy of displaced Afrin people going through Mount Lilon (Dreams) after the occupation of the city by the Turkish state.  Original Title: Convoy International Title: Convoy Director:…

A short film that talks about a child who lost his life as a result of the shelling of Afrin by the Turkish state. His body was lost among the rubbles but his soul remained in the place. His mother visits his grave every day, rejecting the thought of his…

Kobanê had been besieged by ISIS in September 2014 and its citizens, united in People and Women’s Defense Units (YPG and YPJ) since the war in Syria began, in 2011, fought bravely for 4 months and managed to free their city under the eyes of the whole world, absolutely terrorized…