Rich Mix

Events at Rich Mix

• 17th Photograph + Q&A with Zozan Uzun

  Film

  27 Nov 2009 to 27 Nov 2009

  17th Photograph is a documentary about the late Kurdish intellectual and writer, Mehmed Uzun, who wrote exclusively in the Kurdish language that has continued to be banned by Turkish authorities for decades. In his writings, Uzun helped to reveal and promote the richness of Kurdish language. 17th Photograph is based upon testimonies of many people who knew about Uzun’s life starting from his childhood in the town of Siverek, his prison life in Diyarbakir, and his escape to Syria, South Kurdistan (Iraq) and finally Sweden where he ended up as refugee. Q&A with Zozan Uzun wife of the late Mehmed Uzun.

   

• 6th London Kurdish Film Festival

  Special event

  20 Nov 2009 to 27 Nov 2009

  The London Kurdish Film Festival was launched in 2001 by a group of volunteers and this year it will be showcasing a selection of the best Kurdish films of all genres from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the rest of the world.

   

• Adera

  Film

  30 Nov 2009 to 30 Nov 2009

  Adera is a heart wrenching story about a young woman, Marlan, who is an Ethiopian immigrant in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. She quickly discovers that Johannesburg is not the promised city of gold and struggles to provide for her children back home in Ethiopia. Through a series of twisted circumstances, she ends up as a surrogate mother for a wealthy Ethiopian couple, Tiru and Fre.Their fate is tied up with that of Biru, a shady middleman who is central to story's dramatic turns of love, deception and the human spirit to survive.

   

• After the Downfall + Cheers - Hope Dies Last + Q&A

  Film

  22 Nov 2009 to 22 Nov 2009

  A screening of 'After the Downfall' (Dir. Hiner Saleem, France, Germany, 2009, 63 min); and 'Cheers - Hope Dies Last' (Dir. Huseyin Tabak, Austria, Germany, 2008, 12 min). This is followed by a question and answer session with directors Hiner Saleem, Hüseyin Tabak and Nazmi Kirik.