In the evening, we move to Diyarbakır and Rojava through films that follow endangered landscapes, rivers and dam projects, and the stories of those who came together to defend Shengal.
Lola Lieven
Saturday 11.07.2026
19:30-22:30
Chapter Four
No Friend but the Mountains Film19:30 - 20:30 Film Screening and Discussion
A Turtle in Ten Seconds by Rojda Tuğrul
20:30 - 21:00 Break
21:00 - 22:00 Film Screening from Rojava Film Commune:
Letters from Shengal by Dersim Zerevan
22:00 - 22:30 Wrap-up with music and drinks.
Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
TICKETS Each ticket will go to the fundraiser. This gathering is about (un)learning together. If you cannot afford the ticket, please come by, and we will figure it out together.
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A Turtle in Ten Seconds
dir.
Rojda Tuğrul
/ Bashur and Rojava / 10’ / EN subs
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The film aims to capture different relationalities and temporalities of a particular place, around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It envisions both submerged and emerged elements in relation to the dam projects while the infant Mesopotamian soft-shelled turtle moves for ten seconds upside-down in a moment of water turbulence. The still images follow a desire to dilate and conceptualise an endangered species’ lifespan.
Letters from Shengal
dir. Dersim Zarevan (Rojava Film Commune)
/ 2021 / Bashur and Rojava / 80’ / Kurdish
w/ EN subs
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In the Summer of 2014, the Islamic State invaded Shengal, the Ezidi capital in Kurdistan (Iraq). The plan was to exterminate the ethnical/religious minority who were despised and called ‘devil worshippers’. 5000 Ezidi men have been killed, and 7000 women and children have been taken into slavery. This film tells Shengal’s liberation through the stories of five partisans who are five archetypes of the many who came to fight against the Islamic State from several different countries.
