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New York Kurdish Film Festival
edition 8

The fabulous NYKFF8 continues this evening, Tuesday, October 15! 

Here’s the schedule: 

6pm-6:10pm / Dezkak (Animation, Rojhelat, 10 min)

6:10pm-6:15pm / Homo Fuge (Animation, Rojhelat, 4 min)

6:15pm-6:20pm / Bi Sotun (Animation, Rojhelat, 3 min)

6:20pm-6:45pm / Break, with Kurdish Smuggler’s Tea

6:45pm-7:00pm / Dream (Short fiction, Rojava, 12 min)

7pm-7:20pm / How Many Days Will It Last (Short fiction, Bakur, 20 min)

7:30pm-7:45pm / Hooves Beat (Short fiction, Rojhelat, 13 min)

8pm-8:40pm / Jinwar (Women’s Village) (Feature documentary, Rojava, 41 min)

Tickets and passes are available! We look forward to seeing you tonight at the Village East by Angelika theater, 181-189 Second Avenue in Manhattan!

people sitting in a theater.

Opening night at the Angelika—a full house!

NYKFF8 Official Selections

Kurdish Book Club

Book cover for MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE.Our Book Club’s next selection is Mountain Language, a short play by Harold Pinter.  Read it in October, and join us on November 5, via Zoom, to discuss it.

For information about the Book Club, please write to bookclub@nykcc.org.

Kurdish Culture News

2024 Manhattan Arts Grant

LMCC grant recipient.We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve received a Manhattan Arts Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The grant will help fund the next edition of the New York Kurdish Film Festival. 

Many thanks to the LMCC, which funds arts and community projects from Inwood to the Battery!

Welcome to Kurdish Culture!

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