Our 2025 Events

January 2: Our  Book Club discussed The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne. 7pm ET via Zoom. 

January 5: Screening of Love in the Face of Genocide by Şero Hindê and Jinwar (2024) by Nadia Derwiş. Followed by a Q&A with Derwiş (remote from Rojava). At the Woodbine Center, Ridgewood, Queens. 

January 15: Kurdish Cinema Talks, a new podcast series, begins. Episode 1: Mano Khalil.

February 1: Kurdish Cinema Talks, episode 2: Azad Azizyan interviewed Shilan Saadi

February 2: Screening of Neighbors (2021), directed by Mano Khalil, who appeared in person for a Q&A at the Village East by Angelika

February 15: Kurdish Cinema Talks, episode 3: Azad Azizyan interviewed Mehdi Ahmadpourian

March 1-31: Kurdish Heritage Month, third edition

March 4: The Book Club discussed Letters from a Kurd by Kae Bahar.

March 15: Kurdish Cinema Talks podcast, episode 4: Semiha Yildiz interviewed Dilşad Canan.

March 18: Voices of Resistance and Heritage: Stories of Kurdish Women and Culture. A screening of two films and a musical performance at Clemente Center, New York.

March 30: Poetry reading by Hussein Habash at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office, New York

April 15: Kurdish Cinema Talks podcast, episode 5: Azad Azizyan interviewed Azad Jannati

May 6: The Book Club discussed All Dogs Die by Cemile Sahin.

September 20-25: New York Kurdish Film Festival, 9th edition