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The closing ceremony of the festival was held on 11/04/2023 in Essen, Germany. This period included receiving paintings online, holding dozens of meetings with communicating with Fine artists in order to organize a major event worthy of fine art under the name of Afrin. Welcoming guests began at two o'clock, and more than 1,000 people from the four parts of Kurdistan, different nationalities, and countries attended the ceremony.

The Yazidi Advisory Center in the Rhineland-Palatz state parliament building in the German city of Mainz commemorated the ninth anniversary of the crime of genocide committed by the terrorist organization ISIS against the Yazidis on 08/03/2014.

  “Neighbours,” the story of a Kurdish Syrian border village where Arabic and Jewish families find themselves pitted against each other but still manage to thwart authoritarian madness, is more than a personal story to writer-director Mano Khalil.   The feature, shot on authentic locations with accurate dialects from the region and its 1980s setting, is screening in the Camerimage Film Festival director debut section – after a decades-long development process. The cinematographer on the film was Stéphane Kuthy.

Sulaymani International Film Festival ended with distributing prizes for the winning films 7 days after the opening of the festival with the attendance of technicians and a large audience.  The festival was attended by 170 films from 62 countries.   Best Screenplay/Screenwriter goes to Atta Hama Saleh in “Masti Film Company” Best Short Film goes to Artist Tariq Tawfiq for "Unknown Steps"  Best long film goes “The Pink House” film

Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts Ave NW, 20036 Washington, D.C. REGISTER NOW   Agenda Welcome Remarks: Sasha Toperich, CTR-SAIS Senior Fellow, Director of the Mediterranean Basin Initiative   Panelists Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, KRG Representative to the United States

    Haitham Hussein‘s latest novel, A Weed in Paradise (July 2017 Masciliana Editions), traces the footprints of the Kurds who fled their towns and villages in the north of Syria for the suburbs of the capital Damascus after the 2004 Qamishli uprising, which resulted in dozens of dead and thousands in prison:

in the interest of building cultural bridges through poetry the INNER CHILD Foundation PRESS  to publish a statement and reached the site Smakord copy of the poets of the Kurds in Western Kurdistan appeals to send their poems to the institution within a specified period of time for their anthology printed on the form. Dear Poets, We are looking for Kurdish poems from Rojava/North Syria that will be published in the Anthology of Kurdish Poetry by Inner Child Press. Send us as a Word attachment

On Friday, September 16th The 4th edition of Duhok  turned off its large screens with the announcement of the festival’s awards. Once again Duhok city witnessed the biggest cultural event in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. More than thousand people attended at the closing ceremony when two Kurdish films topped the awards, Ahu Ozturk’s “Dust Cloth” and “Rauf” by Baris Kaya and Soner Caner.

  A Kurdish girl from the city of Kirkuk has become the first miss Iraq since 1972.  The jury chose Shaymaa Abdelrahman, a tall, green-eyed 20-year-old from Iraq's multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk.  The decision was popular with those in attendance, especially in the back rows, where young men with hipster beards and tight blazers had been standing on their chairs shouting her name.

  Sahim Omar Kalifa’s Bad Hunter is one of the 10 films shortlisted for the upcoming Oscars in the category of Best Live Action Short. On January 14, five nominees will be announced and on February 28 the award ceremony will be held. Bad Hunter, directed by the Belgian-Kurdish director was chosen by the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences among 144 qualifying short films.

    Kurdish famous singer Shivan Perwer will release a new music video of a 30-year-old song of him. Sponsored by Korek Telecom, the video clip of Perwer’s famous “Ez Khorte Kurdim,” translated as “I’m the Kurdish guy”, is produced by High Level Music Firm. The scenario and direction of the graphic video are by Shereen Cihani and it was filmed on the frontlines of Gwer and Makhmur   Waar, Duhok: