The Duhok Film Festival presents its films in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan

On Saturday, the organizing committee of the Duhok International Film Festival in northern Iraqi Kurdistan announced the participation of 55 films in the festival, in its ninth edition, which is expected to start early next month.
The committee emphasized that the hall of the Domiz refugee camp was chosen to show the participating films, so that the theme discussed by the films of this edition is migration.

Today, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted the artistic director of the Dohuk Film Festival, Shaukat Amin Korki as saying, “The number of films registered in this year’s festival was 570 films, in addition to the selection of the technical team of 98 films from well-known film festivals to be shown during the festival days.”

He pointed out that “55 films have been nominated, including 27 Kurdish films and 28 international films, and the rest are screened out of competition.”

He added, “Hussein Hassan’s The Film (The Bride of the Rain) will be the opening film of the ninth session of the festival and will be shown in the scheduled festival hall.”

He explained that “the number of arbitration committees is five, with a total of twenty members. The international arbitration committee for feature films was chaired by director Solin Youssef, with the participation of director Mahdi Omid, Iranian director Shahram Alidi, Elahi Nobakht , an Iranian distributor and manufacturer, and Swedish Marcus Bartas.” .

And he continued: “As for the Kurdish feature film jury, it is chaired by Marcus Telecia, one of the producers of the film (The Return) with Leonardo DiCaprio, and the membership of each of the critics and academics Kawthar Jabara, the Lebanese director of photography Muriel Abu Al-Rous, director Hashyar Nirway and Turkish producer Burhan Ozkan.” .

He underlined that “the documentary jury is made up of three members, who are each the director of the Goethe Institute in Erbil, the German Anais Polek, and the director Ripper Dusky, and is presided over by the American director Paxton Winters, while the short film jury is chaired by the Swedish Jennifer, the Syrian director Muhammad Sheikho and the Germans Tuna Captain and the Afghan director Abu Dhar Amini, while the committee of the International Critics Association (FIPRISKE) is composed by Salah El-Din Shen from Turkey, Valerius Kijazias from Greece and Julia Dobri from Romania.