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Kobani: Landscape of Resistance and Childhood Nostalgia
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kobani: Landscape of Resistance and Childhood Nostalgia
By Dr. Amir Sharifi
July1, 2017
The opening image of the film vividly shows endless rows of tents against a grey and menacing sky, engulfing refugees in a distance, with children inside a classroom in a new refugee camp. The young talented Kurdish filmmaker, Apo Bazidi, had gone to the refugee camp in Suruc as a volunteer in in 2014 in the thick of the battle for Kobane. Having just graduated from the prestigious film school of the University of Southern California, he wanted to help the refugees of the ISIS genocidal war against Kurds and to “record every day of his journey in the camps and on the front-lines to share their stories with the world”, which initially had turned away from facing the existential threat that Kurds faced.
Inspired by the invincible and selfless spirit of resistance spearheaded by women, and shocked by the savagery of ISIS, Bazidi was keen on documenting the sufferings and horrors that the refugees faced daily, some of which were reflected in the drawings of the camp children, showing violent scenes and fleeing families in the midst of atrocities.
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"Kurdistan, Kurdistan" debuts at Los Angeles film festival
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Dr. Amir Sharifi; vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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"Kurdistan, Kurdistan" debuts at Los Angeles film festival
LOS ANGELES, California- Rudaw - The 2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival
(UMFF) proved to be provocative and refreshing including the debut of
the Kurdish film 'Kurdistan Kurdistan.'
It brought many intriguing films from around the world to the greater
Los Angeles area for three days at the Promenade on the Peninsula, RHCC
Community Center and Peninsula Center Library in Los Angeles,
California.
The almost decade old event organized by Maeya Culture Exchange Group
LLC, offered a rich variety of films ranging in genres from
documentaries and animations to shorts and feature length films, each
delving into some form of cultural expression or traditions, with a
myriad of works from world cinema represented by films from many
countries including China, Korea, Cyprus, Iran, Russia, Japan, and a
film from Northern Kurdistan.
According to Lynn Tang, the festival executive director: "Films have the
power to bring history, culture, and languages together. This is how I
found out about Kurds. I did not know much about the people and the
land. Watching ‘Kurdistan, Kurdistan’ opened my eyes to the beauty of
the music and sad state of people’s lives.
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Seven short films bring the Kurds’ young cinema to America's west coast
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Seven short films bring the Kurds’ young cinema to America's west coast
By Dr. Amir Sharifi
rudaw.net
25 December, 2015
The New York Film Academy in Los Angeles hosted the screening of seven short Kurdish films on December 16. This was the first venue in which seven short films were showcased at this prestigious institution. The event was free and open to public and some one hundred people attended.
The presence of Mr. David Newman, a distinguished professor of the Academy and Khalid Hamalaw, Kurdish film maker, one of whose documentaries, Mrs. Misfortune was shown, and the presence of a diverse engaged audience enhanced the screening. David Newman officially opened the program and invited Amir Sharifi, the president of the Kurdish American Education Society in Los Angeles to provide some background about the Kurdish cinema and the role of Khalid Hamalaw in organizing the venue.
The audience was encouraged to take note of the fact that the Kurdish society is one of the oldest in the world yet it has one of the youngest cinemas. The selected films - White Mountain (Faqi Ibrahim), Ants' Apartment, (Tofigh Amani), Mrs. Misfortune, (Khalid Hamalaw), Bad Hunter, (Sahim Omar Khalifa), Abandoned Faces, (Ashkan Ahmedi), Human Beings, (Mashallha Muhammadi). 74-Shangal, (Chamani Gull) albeit not atypical represented a very small subsection within the genre of fiction, documentary, and animation.
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POLARIS U.S. Premiere Screening at the Culver City Film Festival
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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POLARIS U.S. Premiere Screening at the Culver City Film Festival
Polaris is a moving drama in which a psychologically traumatized war photographer is locked in a desperate struggle to protect her secrets from her husband and escape her inevitable return to the Middle East.
By: Christina Jo'Leigh, p.g.a.
Polaris is a rare, Iranian / American collaboration. Even rarer, it was created by female filmmakers. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there has been an outcry for films by women, starring women, offering a different perspective and window into a world we’ve not been seeing. This is just such a film.
Polaris was written by Naghmeh Samini and Soudabeh Moradian. Soudabeh is also the Director. She was an accomplished documentarian in Iran and traveled abroad creating many insightful films about Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Her evolving body of work includes over 70 documentaries and TV series for European Channel ARTE and the BBC. She immigrated to the U.S. for the freedom to create films with empowering social messages and now lives in Los Angeles. Together, Soudabeh Moradian and I have worked over 3 years to bring Polaris and its message to life.
Our lead character in Polaris, Baran, is half Persian – from Iran, and is representative of many women today, straddling two worlds, and attempting to cross the cultural divide. She exemplifies the silent struggle of women who have had the strength to escape war-torn countries wrought with persecution, only to live in an aftermath of the trauma, still subject to the conventional constraints from which they came, while facing an ongoing struggle for independence and equality in the Western world that does not accept them, and in which they do not fit in.
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New York Film Academy Los Angeles; Kurdish Cinema, December16, 2016
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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New York Film Academy Los Angeles; Kurdish Cinema, December 16, 2016
November 16, 2016
Los Angeles -- For the first
time New York Film Academy Los Angeles, will be screening Kurdish cinema by showcasing 7
short films created by Kurdish filmmakers. Q&A with filmmaker Khalid Lawa
will follow the screening.
The seven films
are:
1- Ants Apartments (Koshki
Merulekan) 2014, Short film, Directed by: Tofigh Amani
2- Bad Hunter (2013) Short film, Comedy, Drama
Directed by Sahim Omar
Kalifa
3- 74 (Shingal/
Sinjar) (2015); Short Documentary Directed by Sattar Chamani Gul
4- Misfortunate; Short
film; Written & Directed by Khalid Hamalawa
5- White Mountains;(2006)
Short film, Directed by Taha Karimi
6- Human Beings
(2009) Short animated film by Mashaallah Mohammadi
7- The Abandoned
faces (2015) Short film, Directed by Ashkan Ahmadi
These films have
been selected to display the wide talents of young Kurdish filmmakers from
different part of Kurdistan to the students of the New York Film Academy and
the greater community. The organizers hope to create a bridge between cultures
through the art of cinema and create a dialogue between fellow creatives.
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Ahmet Kaya’s daughter says plagiarism allegations against Adele under investigation
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Ahmet Kaya's daughter says plagiarism allegations against Adele under investigation
By: Ava Homa
Dec. 13, 2015
Los Angeles - The daughter of legendary Kurdish singer Ahmet Kaya says allegation that British singer Adele has plagiarized from her late father are being investigated, and that her family is not ready to make any accusations.
The Kurdish singer's name appeared in the international media recently, when his fans accused Adele of plagiarising his song. Kaya's 1985 hit "Acilara Tutunmak," which means "clinging to pain," is believed to have astounding similarities with "A Million Year Ago" of Adele's third album, "25."
"We heard about the incident indeed," Ahmet Kaya's daughter, Melis Kaya, told Rudaw.
"There is a harmonic similarity between two songs, yet we left it to the music experts and lawyers. Also, we contacted our edition company in London. We believe that fans are somehow being a bit too excited about it though; it's not fair to accuse someone with something which is uncertain," she said.
She added that the deceased singer's recording companies in London and Istanbul are investigating the matter, but the family refuses to make any accusations just yet.
The international pop singer of the UK's biggest-selling number one album of all time, Adele was once before accused of plagiarism in October, when Tom Waits' fans pointed out similarities between Adele's "Hello" and Waits' "Martha."
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