NYKFF7 Schedule of Events
Friday, October 20
Theater 1
6-7pm / Opening reception
7-7:10pm / Opening remarks by executive director Xeyal Qertel
7:10-7:20pm / Remarks by Navid Zardi
7:20-7:30pm / Koma Govend (dance)
7:30-7:45pm / DJ Durry (music)
7:45-9pm / Film: The Pasha, My Mother, and I (Documentary, Belgium, 83 min)
9-9:30pm / Q&A with director Nevine Gerits (appearing in person), hosted by Xeyal Qertel
9:30-10pm / Community gathering (in reception area)
Saturday, October 21
Theater 1
2pm / Doors open
2-3pm / Program for children (storytelling, games, dance, Kurdish language, history, gifts)
3-3:16pm / Film: Laboratory No. 2 (Documentary, Basur and Rojhelat, 16 min.)
3:16-3:35pm / Live Kurdish music with Osman Mirwais
3:35-5pm / Film: Touching Freedom (Fiction, Sweden, 71 min.)
5-5:30pm / Honorary guest Navid Zardi, interviewed by Zhiko Raziani
5:30-7pm / Film: When the Seedlings Grow (Fiction, Rojava, 83 min.)
7-7:15pm / Film: The Wheel (Fiction, Bakur, 14 min.)
7:15-7:26pm / Film: The Witching Hour (Fiction, Rojhelat, 11 min.)
7:30-7:58pm / Soft as Metal (Documentary, Sweden, 28 min.)
Sunday, October 22
Theater 2
3:00pm / Doors open
3:30-3:55pm / Film: Seven Symphonies of the Zagros (Documentary, Rojhelat, 24 min.)
4-4:15pm / The Address (Fiction, Bakur, 16 min.)
4:30-5:30 / Book talk with Dr. Zaid Brifkani (in person), introduced by Janet Biehl
5:30-6 / Break
6-6:50pm/ Film: Tearing Walls Down (Documentary, Bakur, 50 min.)
6:50-7pm / Q&A with directors Şerif Çiçek and Hebûn Polat and producer Adil Demirci (all appearing in person), hosted by Azad Azizyan
Monday, October 23
Theater 2
6:30pm / Doors open
7-8pm / Workshop: “The Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking” with Azad Azizyan and Natalie Bullock Brown
8:15-8:30pm / Film: Things Unheard Of (Fiction, Bakur, 15 min.)
8:30-8:46pm / Film: The Land of Buried Women (Documentary, Basur, 16 min.)
Tuesday, October 24
Theater 2
6:30pm / Doors open
7-7:14pm / Film: I Turn Off the Lights (Fiction, Rojhelat, 14 min.)
7:15-8:30pm / Film: I Had Seeded Pomegranate for You (Fiction, Rojhelat, 78 min.)
Wednesday, October 25
Theater 2
6:30pm / Doors open
6:45-8:00pm / Film: The Hole in the Wall (Fiction, Bakur, 76 min.)
8-8:15pm / Film: Hope (Fiction, Rojhelat, 15 min.)
8:30-8:40pm / Q&A with director Bilal Korkût (appearing in person), hosted by Fexrî Seker
Thursday, October 26
Theater 2
6-6:30pm / Live music with Osman Mirwais
6:30-7;40pm / Film: The Wedding Parade (Fiction, Rojava, 70 min.)
8-9pm / Closing reception, live music with DJ Durry