Director Kazım Öz was detained Jan 22 as part of an investigation launched by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding his film, Zer. Öz was taken into custody at the Kemerburgaz ...

Yellow Letters and Emin Alper’s Salvation both won headline honours at the Berlin film festival and show dissenting cinema is thriving in the face of Erdoğan’s repression ...

Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state institutions" after organizing a screening of the animated documentary film ...

Wellspring release “Marooned in Iraq” will be the first film to unspool in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Pic opened this week in Sulleimanieah and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. It will premiere ...

Mehmet Aktaş is a Kurdish filmmaker, producer, author and journalist born in Turkey but living in Germany. He is founder and chief executive of the film production and distribution company mîtosfilm ...