BIA 05.03.2008 A film about a vilage girl in Hakkari struggling against family pressures to become a painter has won a film competition and will now join the international Panasonic film competition.
Kurdish Rebels photo won First prize in the ''People in the News Stories''
Photographer Philippe Dudouit visits the mountain hideout of a unit of the Kurdistan Workers Party
First prize in the People in the News Stories category of the 2008 World Press Photo contest by Swiss photographer Philippe Dudouit for Time Magazine showing PKK fighters in southern Kurdistan/northern Iraq 2007. (AP Photo/Philippe Dudouit/Time Magazine) This material is for single publications in print or for a temporary online publication, and may be used exclusively to publicize the 2008 World Press Photo contest and exhibition. It may not be published as part of an article or any other item that contains no direct link to World Press Photo and its activities without prior permission from the photographer or agency.
TDN-Tens of thousands of Alevis from both Germany and all over Europe are expected to flow to Cologne over the weekend to protest a contentious program aired on a German TV station which the Alevis say was a humiliating portrayal of their faith
Radoanederlands-The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) is in its 20th year, and claims to be the biggest of its kind in the world. It's a marketplace where film buyers, filmmakers, and film lovers all come together for screenings that cover a vast range of non-fiction topics. Often the films give a deeper insight into geo-political hotspots than what is normally available in the news media.
Independent -Mehmed Uzun, pioneer of the Kurdish novel in Turkey, will be best remembered on the international stage for the controversy surrounding his novel Roni mina Evine, Tari mina Mirine ("Light as love, Dark as death"),
KURDISH YOUTH AND CHILDREN MUSIC GROUP FROM KURDISTAN
Kurdish Community of Southern California, and Dilan Entertainment
Present /(San Diego) On October 5th at the Joan B. Kroc Community Center in San Diego, the Kurdish Community Center of Southern California and Dilan Entertainment proudly present the talented "Kurdish Youth and Children Music group from Kurdistan".
OCTOBER 5, 2007; 8:00 PM