The 16th Hamburg Kurdish Film Festival, scheduled for November 19-23, will bring a total of 21 films in the categories of feature film, short film, short documentary, and feature-length documentary to cinema lovers in Hamburg under the slogan “Memory, Resistance, Vision.”
The festival opened on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. at Hamburg’s Zeise Kinos, moderated by Eda Bektaş and Celil Kaya.
Artist Cemil Qoçgîrî took the stage at the opening, after which director Çayan Demirel was invited on stage as the festival’s guest of honor. Demirel accepted the honorary guest award, which he dedicated to the Kurdish people.
On the first day of the festival, director Berivan Binevşa’s film “The Virgin and Child” was screened. The 80-minute feature film tells the story of Avesta, a Yazidi woman who survived the ISIS onslaught in Shengal, confronting the ISIS member who enslaved her and her quest for justice. The film tells a story of reckoning and confrontation that begins in Kurdistan and ends in Brussels.
Orkan Bayram’s documentary “Friend Muharrem,” which tells the story of Muharrem Aral’s struggle, will be screened at Kino 3001 Schanze on November 22.
Directed by Murat Fıratoğlu, “One of the Days Hemme Died” will meet cinema lovers at Kino 3001 Schanze on November 21. The film centers on the economic and emotional problems experienced by farmworker Eyüp. Also part of the festival’s feature film selection, the documentary “Dengbejên Me,” directed by Ali Bağdu, will be screened on Thursday, November 20, at Kino 3001 Schanze. The documentary focuses on the lives of the last living representatives of the dengbêj tradition.
Çayan Demirel and Ertuğrul Mavioğlu’s documentary “Bakur,” which focuses on the lives of guerrilla fighters and was censored in Turkey, and Demirel’s documentary “38,” which addresses the 1938 Dersim massacre, will be screened on Sunday, November 23.
The complete program can be viewed here https://hkff.info
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