Dersim Zerevan
Directing
Biography
Jihan Asaad Sheikhmous (Dersim Zerevan) was born on February 10, 1980 in Qamishlo, Rojava. She is the second child of a family of 8 children, 3 girls and 5 boys. Her activism for social justice started secondary school. She was on the frontlines of the social movements against the persecution of the Kurds by the Syrian regime between 1996-2000. She started to compile guerrilla memoirs and poems at the Literature School in early 2000s. Afterwards, she made researches on Zilan (Zeynep Kınacı) for about three years and prepared a novel in Arabic. She started cinema as a student of Halil Dağ (Halil İbrahim Uysal) after 2004. Her first movie as a director was a documentary about Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansız, Sara, my whole life was a struggle. Her second movie was Rûpelên Sor. In 2019, she made a film in Shengal about the Yazidis.
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Bêrîtan
Documentary on Sakine Cansız (Sara), the Kurdish revolutionary and PKK co-founder killed in Paris in January 2013 by Turkish agents.
Sara - My Whole Life Was a Struggle
In the Summer of 2014, the Islamic State invaded Shengal, the Ezidi capital in Kurdistan (Iraq). The plan was to exterminate the ethnical/religious minority who were despised and called “devil worshippers’. 5000 Ezidi men have been killed, and 7000 women and children have been taken into slavery. This film tells Shengal’s liberation through the stories of five partisans who are five archetypes of the many that came to fight against the Islamic State from several different countries.
Letters from Shengal
As in the story of Dewrêşê Evdî, we follow the journey of 12 Kurdish guerrillas who want to save Shengal. The ISIS groups are approaching, and the official authorities decide to flee with his 12 knights, who are fleeing his beloved Edûlê because the Yazidis are not Muslims. A guerrilla group led by women, the new 12 knights, manages to liberate the city and bring the people to safe areas after fighting a historic battle against the Khalifa of ISIS.
Knights of Shengal
The Story of Nûjiyan Erhan.