Yazidi director Nawzad Sheikhani will make a new film about the torment of the Yazidi people
Now in Germany, in the city of Cologne, preparations are underway for a new film project with the tentative title "Al-Sabiya wa Al-Zahria" directed by Nawzad Sheikhani, who has won many awards at various international film festivals.
The film is based on the novel "The Yezidi Captivity" by Iraqi writer Naim Abd Muhal.
After a joint workshop was formed between the director of the work and the author of the novel to develop the plot around characters and ideas, director Sheikhani completed writing the first draft of the script of the film, which tells about the details of the 2014 genocide, about the murders, violence, and captivity of the Yezidi population. How the Yezidis hid in the mountains of Shangal.
The events of the film are based on reflections on what is happening in the world in the face of the forces of evil, darkness and cruelty from supporters of wars that oppress the human conscience, and show the fate of the Yezidi people, how they were exposed to unforeseen disasters while living in fear, so the options for asylum are one of the keys to a temporary solution, which quickly turns into an eternal solution in European cities. for the Yezidi diaspora.
The first collaboration between Sheikhani and Muhal is a joint attempt by the directors to present the film in an epic form about what his Yazidi people were subjected to in Iraq, and a sign warning of the need to get rid of the remnants and traces of these sufferings, and as a reminder of the new wars that the world and Europe are undergoing today.
bahzani.net
Tags: #yazidisinfo #newsyazidis #aboutyazidis #genocideyazidis
Yazidi director Nawzad Sheikhani will make a new film about the torment of the Yazidi people
Now in Germany, in the city of Cologne, preparations are underway for a new film project with the tentative title "Al-Sabiya wa Al-Zahria" directed by Nawzad Sheikhani, who has won many awards at various international film festivals.
The film is based on the novel "The Yezidi Captivity" by Iraqi writer Naim Abd Muhal.
After a joint workshop was formed between the director of the work and the author of the novel to develop the plot around characters and ideas, director Sheikhani completed writing the first draft of the script of the film, which tells about the details of the 2014 genocide, about the murders, violence, and captivity of the Yezidi population. How the Yezidis hid in the mountains of Shangal.
The events of the film are based on reflections on what is happening in the world in the face of the forces of evil, darkness and cruelty from supporters of wars that oppress the human conscience, and show the fate of the Yezidi people, how they were exposed to unforeseen disasters while living in fear, so the options for asylum are one of the keys to a temporary solution, which quickly turns into an eternal solution in European cities. for the Yezidi diaspora.
The first collaboration between Sheikhani and Muhal is a joint attempt by the directors to present the film in an epic form about what his Yazidi people were subjected to in Iraq, and a sign warning of the need to get rid of the remnants and traces of these sufferings, and as a reminder of the new wars that the world and Europe are undergoing today.
bahzani.net
Tags: #yazidisinfo #newsyazidis #aboutyazidis #genocideyazidis
