Four films Kurds, a classic film and three ones contemporaries about love, loss, conflicts, and what it means to be a woman during the war are being screened this year! f International Independent Film Festival of AFM.
Movies comprise a special section called "openness", which debuted at last year's festival a popular response.
"We are motivated by a belief in the power of film to tell stories very human. People need to listen to each other and getting to know one another, so that a lasting peace, "festival co-director Serra Ciliv said the selection of films selected in the category.
"We show a selection of films from the Kurds for the first time last year under the title" openness, ' that Government efforts with the same name to resolve a long-standing conflict, tragic in mainly Kurdish Southeast, "Ciliv said.
While the Government effort seems to have stopped, the organisers of festivals are "interested in keeping up the pace and so continue this year with a new selection of titles of Kurds," said Ciliv. "Today our theme is about the" other side "of this conflict."
Category brings to audiences of Istanbul in a number of Kurdish cinema films, a movie very young who is still trying to find his voice.
"Last year, had films of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Europe, with a reaction of the audience was incredible," said Ciliv. The selections were packed and audiences had every opportunity to interact with filmmakers. This strengthen our belief in the power of mutual discussion. Hopefully we can build this year. "
This year's selection capabilities that a classic almost a century old, a dark fairy tale, the violent Kandil mountains and two movies that intimate looks at women who chose to join the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. illegal The four films in the category of "openness" will be displayed only once during the festival.
Iranian "Kandil mountains of Director Taha Karimi" (Kwystani Qandil) has as its backdrop of mountains that claimed tens of thousands of lives of Iran, Turkey and Iraq. Soldiers of these three countries are fighting the PKK for years, with the hope of reconciliation a distant fantasy. The film has three men, ' Prayers Shamal, Tears and Rasool o' Eyeneddin o' Daff, search for his beloved Nesreen, who was lost for many years. This is a film about love and loss in wartime.
Women in wartime"Women of Mount Ararat" (Les Femmes du Mont Ararat) takes a look at the conflict in Southeast Anatolia and the PKK's refreshingly unique perspective. The film's protagonists are six female PKK fighters who took the mountains as a place of refugees and of freedom. Here, in the Southeast, many women are confronted with extra oppression through traditions imprison them in a mindset not too advanced in the middle ages, with violence, often being used to "fix". Women in this unit female singles are not your typical "Steel Magnolias", as they are constantly in motion on mountaintop. Camera from French Director Erwann Briand takes us on his private moments and intimate conversations, giving a look distressing realities of war from the perspective of women.
Dutch Director Annegriet Wietsma runs his camera in another woman in the heart of the conflict. "Sozdar, she who lives his promise" (Sözdar, Sözünü Ya ayan Kad n) is the story of Nuriye Kesbir, which, for years, refused to marry at the age of 12. She later joined the PKK and 30 years later became a famous leader of the organization. Wietsma follows Kesbir on a journey of a Dutch prison for relentless mountains of northern Iraq. The film is a portrait of Franco and thrilling a woman of no excuse, taking a look at his life and their motives. You don't have to approve, understanding or agreement with Kesbir to become fascinated by it.
Was the last group selection, "Zare", a classic black and white silent film pioneer 1926 by Armenian Hamo Beknazaryan, is the first film to depict the Kurds in the screen. The film is a tragic love story between a Kurdish girl and a shepherd living in the same Kurdish village in the region of Lachin corridor, during the time when the Russian Czarist regime was about to close. Almost a century old, the film appears with musical accompaniment of Kurdish artist Tara Jaff.
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