The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

Kurds are returning to Syria’s Afrin district and celebrating the Nowruz spring festival openly for the first time in years ...

Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah al-Khatib ruffled the feathers of the German elite with his passionate defence of the Palestinian cause ...

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 ...

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

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 ...

Held alongside the UN Human Rights Council session, the festival brings together films and forums under the theme "Resisting Authoritarianism." ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday spoke over the phone with the president of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, discussing the latest situation in the region ...

Turkish cinema, despite being held back by economic and political constraints, looks poised for a global breakthrough this year. Its milestone Berlin 2026 contingent — comprising three feature film ...

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