Kawyar Hadi • Portrait • Female Voice of Kurdistan 

Short documentary about a Kurdish singer from Halabja (Iraq).
With approximately 40 million people worldwide, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group without an internationally recognized state. We traveled to different regions of Kurdistan and filmed eight singers from the four main regions of Kurdish culture.
"Kurds are resilient like mountains" کورد وەک شاخ خۆڕاگرە - (Kurdish proverb)
Kawyar Hadi was born in Halabja, Kurdistan Autonomous Region, Iraq
Concert of Kawyar Hadi → • Concert • Kawyar Hadi ...
Director/Cinematographer - Andreas Rochholl • Film Editor/Colorist - Sebastian Leitner • Assistant Director - Michelle Ragay • Research - Yalda Yazdani • Subtitles - Mihraban Salih
Musicians: Khalil Abdullah, Ney • Rebaz Amin, Tanbur • Shwan Qaradakhi, Percussion
Special thanks to Shahram Jaseem, Filmed on location in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq in April 2023
→ Playlist with all portraits and concerts: • Playlist
The festival 'Female Voice of Kurdistan' is a project of Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin
• Curator - Yalda Yazdani • Director/Producer - Andreas Rochholl
• Creative Director/Editor - Sebastian Leitner • Production Manager - Mihraban Salih
Theme music by Sakina TEYNA, Emrah OGUZTÜRK, Eren AKSAHIN - Interpretation: Nor Ashkhar project
Kurdistan map by AdobeStock • voiceover made with ElevenLabs
Funded by Capital Cultural Fund, Berlin
More infos about 'Female Voice of Kurdistan':
→ femalevoiceofku...
→ zeitgenoessisc...
in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth and CrossGeneration Media
→ crossgen.media/
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