The sixth edition of the annual New York Kurdish Film Festival took place at the historic Angelika Theater in Greenwich Village on October 14-16, 2022. It offered a range of films, long and short, fiction and documentary, that speak to the condition of Kurdish people in Kurdistan and elsewhere in the world.

The NYKFF dedicated the sixth edition to the memory of Jîna Emînî (Mahsa Amini), the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was brutally murdered while in custody of the Iranian morality police. Jîna had been arrested because some portion of her hair was uncovered.

The films screened were:

About 111 Girl, directed by Nahid Ghobadi and Bijan Zamanpira (2012, documentary) 

Casimê Celîl: Life of a Kurdish Intellectual, directed by Celil Bedikanli and Özlem Diler (2021, documentary, biography)

Damn Employer, directed by Kiumars Sobhani (short, drama)

The Dance of Ali and Zin (Govenda Alî û Zîn), directed by Mehmet Ali Konar (2021, drama)

Fingerprint (Şiwênpence), directed by Zanyar Mihemmedînikû (short, drama), followed by a Q&A with the director

Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep, directed by Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan (2021, fiction)

The Hunter, directed by Diyar Dolatkhah (short, fiction)

Hût, created by Ibrahim Yıldırım (animation, for children)

Kobanê, directed by Özlem Yasar (2022, drama)

The Kurds in Egypt Through the Ages, directed by Zhe Kamil (2020, documentary)

Lêger, directed by Ömer Leventoglu and Esin Akgül Güneş (2022, documentary)

Mother Tongue, directed by Sarkew Mesgari (2022, documentary)

Neighbours, directed by Mano Khalil (2021, drama), followed by Q&A with Jay Abdo, an actor appearing in the film

Pathway, directed by Lina Raza (2021, short, drama)

Prison or Exile, directed by Serif Cicek (2021, documentary), followed by a Q&A with the director, sponsored by Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung NYC

Quarantine, directed by Ehsan Kafash (fiction)

Room 217, directed by Srwsht Abarash (2021, short, fantasy)

Square 24, directed by Dyko Allahverdi (short, fiction)

Tapo, directed by Mohammad Darvishi (2022, short, fiction)

13th May, directed by Tariq Tofiq Qadir (2021, documentary, short)

Voices and Locks (Dengê Kilîtan), directed by Ilham Bakir (2022, short, fiction)

The Wind Girl, directed by Dana Karim (2021, short, fiction, drama)

Yar, directed by Aram Hassan (2020, short, documentary)

Additional events:

Musical performance by Dr. Ozan Aksoy, on the erbane/daf, or Kurdish drum

Book talk by Janet Biehl, author of Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS (2022)