Kurdish Cinema Talks: The Podcast
Kurdish Cinema Talks is a podcast featuring interviews with Kurdish film professionals, including directors, cinematographers, and more. Listen to it here, on Buzzsprout, or on our YouTube channel.
Hosts
Azad Azizyan is a Kurdish documentary filmmaker and educator based in Los Angeles. He is passionate about using film as a tool for social change. He co-presented a workshop at NYKFF7.
Semiha Yıldız, a native of Şirnak, North Kurdistan, is an animator and multimedia professional. Her debut animated film is Cudîyê Miradan (2021). Currently, she serves as a podcast editor for Botan International and is the co-founder of Your Frame Company.
Podcast Details
Language: All dialects of the Kurdish language or English.
Frequency: Monthly, on the 15th of each month
Available on these platforms: Buzzsprout, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, and on the NYKCC YouTube channel
The 2024 KCT discussion group
June 30, 2024: We hosted Kurdish director Ali Kemal Çinar to discuss two of his feature fiction films, Gênco (2017) and In Between (2018).
April 28, 2024: We hosted Mizgin Müjde Arslan to discuss her film I Flew You Stayed (2012).
March 31, 2024: We hosted Shilan Saadi to discuss two of her short films, a fiction and a documentary, An Alley Behind Our House (2010) and My Granma’s Daughter (2014).
February 2024: We hosted Ibrahim Salman to discuss his films 3 Faces of a Mountain Man Who Desires to be a Seal (1991) and A Silent Traveler (1993). Selman was among the first Kurdish artists to use the art of motion pictures to narrate the stories of the Kurdish people.
“I Flew You Stayed” by Mizgin Müjde Arslan
