page_title: Kurdish cinema
section_title: Directors
hierarchical_section_title: Kurdish cinema / Directors
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La cinéaste turque Yeşim Ustaoğlu au Festival International du Film de La Rochelle 2016: Rencontre avec la réalisatrice turque Yeşim Ustaoğlu et le directeur du Festival du Film d’Istanbul Kerem Ayam animée par Ariel Schweitzer, Théatre Verdière, La Coursive, mardi 5 juillet 2016 à 16h15. La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France.
context_page_description: The first film of what has become known as Kurdish cinema, was Zare, and was shot in 1926 in Armenia and directed by Hamo Beknazarian; however, only in the 2000s did Kurdish cinema begin to rise as a recognizable genre.
context_section_description: Ayşe Polat
  Bahman Ghobadi
  Hiner Saleem
  Hisham Zaman
  Husein Hasan
  Jano Rosebiani
  Karzan Kardozi
  Kazim Öz
  Mano Khalil
  Miraz Bezar
  Nazmi Kırık
  Nizamettin Ariç
  Nuray Şahin
  Sahim Omar Khalifa
  Shawkat Amin Korki
  Taha Karimi
  Yüksel Yavuz
  Yeşim Ustaoğlu
  Yılmaz Güney
  Yüksel Yavuz
  Yusuf Yeşilöz
  Züli Aladağ
caption: Yeşim Ustaoğlu
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