Culture
Film, visual arts, theatre and more.
From 8 to 10 May, the Amsterdam Kurdish Film Festival at Het Ketelhuis was a meeting place for filmmakers and film lovers. The fifth edition revolved around films, music and conversations around culture, identity and the growing visibility of Kurdish cinema.
Sometimes a book, film or video game tells more than its own story. Stories set in another universe actually seem to show the world we live in. Like the game BioShock.
‘Writing Hawa’ is an intimate portrait of Afghan filmmaker Najiba Noori's mother, who learns to read and write later in life. In doing so, she becomes a symbol of a generation of women who refuse to fall silent in a country that silences them.
Afghan documentary filmmaker Alka Sadat (36) shows how Afghan women overcome their past and pursue their dreams in the Netherlands.
Between Kabul and Amsterdam, journalist and newcomer Saadat Mousavi discovers how music, people and moments broaden his outlook and give him new experiences. He describes his first evening at the Concertgebouw.
Kamal Aljafari's rediscovered material from 2001 forms a road movie through vanished lands. What was once a modest travelogue has turned into evidence.
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, now in exile, shot his latest feature ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ in secret.
No Other Land is a collective production by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers that was presented at IDFA 2024. Navid Nikkhah Azzad speaks to the makers about the themes of memory, political tension and the risks involved in making this controversial film.
“The film urges us to wake up and take the initiative for our own liberation,” said director and film journalist Navid Nikkhah Azad. He attended the press screening of the Iranian feature film ‘My Favourite Cake’, which will be shown in the Netherlands from 14 November. In January 2024, the International [...]
Calligraphy and learning a language are both ways to connect more deeply with the culture from which they originate, believes Salwa Zaher. At the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennal in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, she comes to this conclusion.
