Director Bilal Shakir completes "Shamaran," a film on war trauma, targeting festivals first. The title evokes the Kurdish ...

A Kurdish–Dutch cultural festival held in Oosterhout on Dec. 21, 2025, introduced Dutch and international audiences to Kurdish music, fashion, food, and traditions, including Yalda, an ancient winter ...

The festival aims at performing works in Kurdish to play a vital role in strengthening the region’s cultural heritage and traditional rituals, ISNA quoted Hamidreza Khoshbakht, the secretary of the ...

The celebration of Newroz is an annual event in Diyarbakir and other cities in Turkey, a festival that has its roots in Persian culture. Tens of thousands of people celebrated the New Year festival of ...

Titles to get Iraqi airing include "The Queen," "Billy Elliot" and "Made in Dagenham." By Stuart Kemp LONDON – The Kurdistan region in Iraq is to launch its first British film festival in partnership ...

Productions about Kurdistan in addition to animations, Art & Sound section and movies on 68 generation enrich 29th International Trieste Film Festival. Trieste international film festival to be ...

Chalak Events will hold “Kurdish Expression Festival” with Acmos, Retrò Scenayê, Comitato Salvagente and Paris Kurdish Institute in Turin, Italy on April 10-13. Several artists, academics and literary ...

Iraqi semi-autonomous Kurdistan region has banned the Nowruz New Year festivals due later this month due to coronavirus fears, a statement said on Wednesday. Adds details, background ERBIL, Iraq, ...

(Adds new detainees, arrests, background) DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 22 (Reuters) - More than 100 Kurdish demonstrators and 10 policemen were injured and more than 160 Kurds detained across ...

ERBIL, Iraq, March 11 (Reuters) - Iraqi semi-autonomous Kurdistan region has banned the Nowruz New Year festivals due later this month due to coronavirus fears, a statement said on Wednesday. The ...