"The Women of Mount Ararat”... are Krudish now

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 Four Kurdish films, one classic movie and three contemporary ones on love, loss, conflict and what it means to be a woman during wartime, are being screened at this year’s !f AFM International Independent Film Festival.

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The last selection in the group, “Zare,” a silent black-and-white classic from 1926 by Armenian cinema pioneer Hamo Beknazaryan, was is the first film to portray Kurds on screen. The film is a tragic love story between a Kurdish girl and a shepherd living in the same Kurdish village in the Lachin region during the time when the Russian Tsarist regime was about to collapse. Nearly a century old, the film will be screened with musical accompaniment by the Kurdish artist Tara Jaff.