“The Music Behind Borders” is a short film about a banned language and a silenced culture.
This film is set in 1982 in Turkey, when the Kurdish language and music were officially forbidden. Soldiers try to prevent Kurdish music from being played at a Kurdish wedding. In 2022 Kurdish language and music are still under pressure.
You can watch it here.
Directed by Ekrem Yildiz; screenplay by Murat Bayram
The New York Kurdish Cultural Center, established in 2017, seeks to nurture and showcase Kurdish contributions to the visual and performing arts, cinema, and literature. By creating venues for exhibitions and performances in the New York area, it further aims to foster community among Kurds and to build bridges with non-Kurdish communities.
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