پازۆلینی؛ لە بەشی سینەمای زانکۆی سلێمانییە

Two students from the department of filmmaking win an international award.

At the Carthage International Monodrama Festival in Tunisia, the monodrama titled ‘Selma’, a play written by Dr. Dilshad Mustafa, the head of the filmmaking department at the University of Sulaymaniyah. It was directed by Nazhad Najim, starring Hawar Faris and the French actress Aurélie Imbert as the lead roles. The subject of the monodrama emphasizes the tragedies and catastrophes that the people of southern Kurdistan have suffered, which are told through the embodiment of both characters, and each of them individually, as the story progresses and situations unravel. ‘Selma’ is a product of the ‘Hawar theater group’. Before it was performed at the Carthage International Monodrama Film Festival, it was performed in various cities of Kurdistan. At the 6th Carthage International Festival, it was performed under the names of Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Iraq, and France. The reasoning for this is the fact that Kurdistan is still a part of the federal country of Iraq, and Ms. Aurélie Imbert is a French citizen. The Carthage International Monodrama Festival is one of the biggest festivals within the Arabian countries, where play actors from different continents participate annually. The plays in that festival tend to be closed theater, open-air theater, & narrative plays that compete in the main, judicial, or young voters categories. Out of 30 different plays that came from 15 different countries, ‘Selma’ monodrama managed to entice & attract the viewers and the jury by performing it 3 times in both open-air and closed theaters and win the jury-voted award. It’s worth mentioning that despite the playwright of this monodrama being a professor and head of the film department in U.O.S., Nazhad Najim and Hawar Faris are also two talented students from the same department. They have participated in and created many other artworks and projects and have won various international and local awards and accolades. This award is one of many others. This year, filmmaking students have participated in many plays and the creation of short films, and many other students from the same department will also be participating in different local and international festivals, some of which are up for awards and are expected to win awards and create echoes through the industry. Simultaneously, during the 6th Carthage International Monodrama Festival, Nazhad Najim, who happened to have an extensive amount of experience in theater (including monodrama and street theater), hosted a 5-day workshop in Tunisia for the Tunisian play actors under the title of ‘Creating a self-aware actor for street theater’, and the result of that workshop was a play which pleased audiences.