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1 . Opening Gala with concert of Music and Song by “Lost Melody Music Group”
Speech: 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Concert: 2:35pm – 4:00pm
The Lost Melody Music Group
The Lost Melody Group is a traditional Kurdish music group established in 2006 to promote Kurdish culture through out music and songs.
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2. Crossing the Dust
Time: 4:35pm – 6:00 Screen
1 Length: 73 mins
A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurdish Peshmarghas, Azad and Rashid, are looking for the parents of a five-year-old Arab boy who they found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy's name which is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor the men of religion at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. In the streets and all around them, they are surrounded by the chaos and crazy atmosphere of those days, with violence always on the verge of exploding.
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3. A Day with PKK
Director: Karzan Sherabayani
Time: 20th saturday 6:35pm
Length: 7 mins
Thousands of members of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) armed resistance train daily in South Kurdistan, Iraq. The organisation has grown rapidly in the last 20 years as a result of the Turkish government’s persecution of the Kurds - and now claims to have millions of supporters throughout the world. With Turkey eager to join the EU, but still refusing to recognize the existence of the Kurds and their rights, and claiming the PKK is a terrorist organization, Kurdish director Karzan spends a day in their training camp.
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4. The Thin Blue Line
Director: Karzan Sherabayani
Time:?
The Thin Blue Line.
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5. Petrol & Bread
Director: Marwan Ibraham
Time: ?
Petrol & Bread
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6. Snowy Days Night
Director: Danish Babak Salvati
Time: 6:35pm
Snowy Days Night
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7. Alcohol Smuggling
Director: Karzan Sherabayani
Time:6:35
On the mountains of Kurdistan between Iraq, Iran and Turkey, it snows for most of the winter. While the roads become impassable for cars, the traffic on horseback remains steady for the black market.
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8. Finding My Legs
Director: Alan Amin
Time: 8:05
Shaho Qadir is a double amputee who survived the chemical bombing of the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988, where 5000 people lost their lives. He came to the UK as a refugee but has since established himself as a highly successful para-athlete. He is renowned for competing next to able-bodied people in marathons and for finishing the last 100 metres of wheelchair races on his hands. This documentary wants to explore what lies behind his public image.
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9. Flying
Director: Sirwan Rehim
Time: 8:05
Sherko Bekas is a renowned Kurdish poet who evokes the last sixty years of Kurdish history. Sherko had to leave his homeland to live in exile in Sweden. Shirwan Rehim's documentary, while exploring the poet's life, also shows us Sherko's return to his homeland and more recent events in South Kurdistan.
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