“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