The first ISFF was successfully held during September 24th -- 29th 2005 at the Magic Lamp Movie Theatre in Baghdad. 140 films by Iraqi, Kurdish and other Arab filmmakers were submitted to a panel of experts. 58 films were chosen to compete for 7 prizes: 34 short films, 8 documentaries and 6 animation films. As a first guest country, Germany was invited to present 28 short films in an own guest section. The selection was made by the Hamburg Short Film Agency and the German Film Association. In addition, the Festival received entries also from Egypt, Great Britain, Japan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia which were screened separately outside the official programme
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Mohamed Al-Daradji speaks with Abu Dhabi Film Festival's Özge Calafato about setting up a premiere for his film "Son of Babylon" in his home country of Iraq.
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iraqimaqam.blogspot.com Iraqi Maqam المقام العراقي Taqsim Santur - Maqam Rast Muhammad Zaki Darwish Baghdad, Iraq c. 1980 - Taqsim (improvisation) on the santur in rast mode. - Dulab in sharqi rast mode and a 4 wahda rhythm. (3:38) تقسيم سنطور عراقي مقام رست مع دولاب شرقي رست (ايقاع الوحده ٤/٤) من اداء الاستاذ محمد زكي درويش * Mohamed Zaki Darwish is an Iraqi santur player and a performer of the art of the Iraqi Maqam, born in 1955. He learned to play santour at the Baghdad Musical Studies Institute and devoted his remaining academic years to teaching. He was awarded the Prize for Best Santur Player in Baghdad in 1976 and 1977. He left Iraq to continue other studies at Kodaly Institute in Hungary, where he became teacher. He has represented Iraq in many festivals, such as the Festival of Arab Music which took place in Baghdad in 1976 and 1977 and the seventh Cairo festival of Arab music in 1977. He has recorded several musical shows on Iraqi radio and television. He has played with and backed some of the most famous masters of the Iraqi maqam, now all deceased. His repertoire includes ancient songs and music. Mohamed Zaki thus contributes to preserve this traditional music, which originates in times immemorial and belongs to the Mesopotamian cultural heritage. He is currently a teacher at the High Institute of Music in the city of Souse in Tunisia.
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THE FALLEN (3rd Movement) - Composed by Mark O'Connor Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra Performer: Carla Auld (Flute) Conductor: Eric Jacobsen From Carla Auld's CD 'Beauty in America' Video Directed by Fiona Zwieb The Fallen "The Fallen" for flute solo and strings composed by Mark O'Connor in three movements was commissioned by two different flutists, and for each of their respective music festivals for the summer of 2003; Marya Martin for the 20th anniversary of her Bridghampton Festival in New York, and Beth Ross-Buckley at her Camadera Festival in San Diego. The compositional process for the piece began for O'Connor in 2003, the very day the war was launched in Iraq. The piece was finished about three weeks later around the time the statues of the Iraqi dictator fell in Baghdad. This music is a reflection of the people who lost their life in the war. This particular impact on his music makes for quite a different result from O'Connor's usual optimism. However he finds a way to weave in a sense of a better future in the third movement. By transforming the tragic and darker qualities of the first movement's themes, and making a departure from the quirky "feet on the ground" playfulness of the second movement, here O'Connor yearns and urges for a more beautiful world. Mark O'Connor Musik International 315 West 57th Street, Suite 14H, New York, NY 10019 Copyright @ 2011 by MOMI For More YouTubes of Mark O'Connor's American Classical music, please view this playlist ...
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The excellent Babylon Arabic Band, led by Mohammad Nafea and featuring a mixture of Iraqi and Scottish musicians, played as part of the Reel Iraq - Music of Iraq event for Reel Iraq 2009. Filmed in the Roxy Art House, Edinburgh, by Faisal Aziz.
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www.abc.net.au | Love Aussie stand-up comedy? Then you'll love this hilarious new series showcasing some of the country's great stand-up comedians. Tom Gleeson has performed at all three major comedy festivals in Melbourne, Edinburgh and Montreal and the 'invite-only' Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland. He has performed at every capital city in Australia, in London, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Jakarta and also in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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*** WARNING *** Viewer Discretion Is Advised! This video contains scenes that may not be suitable for all viewers (children shouldn't watch it)!
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iraqimaqam.blogspot.com Iraqi Maqam المقام العراقي Taqsim Santur - Muhammad Zaki Darwish Yusuf Omar private concert, 1975 Baghdad, Iraq. Solo improvisation on the santur in maqam nahawand. تقسيم سنطور مقام نهاوند - محمد زكي درويش Mohamed Zaki Darwish is an Iraqi Santour Player, and a performer of the art of the Iraqi Maqam, born in 1955. He learned to play santour at Baghdad Musical Studies Institute and devoted his remaining academic years to teaching. He was awarded the Prize for Best Santour Player in Baghdad in 1976 and 1977. He left Iraq to continue other studies at Kodaly Institute in Hungary, where he became teacher. He has represented Iraq in many festivals, such as the Festival of Arab Music which took place in Baghdad in 1976 and 1977 and the seventh Cairo festival of Arab music in 1977. He has recorded several musical shows on the Iraqi radio and television. He has played with and backed some of the most famous masters of the Iraqi maqam now all deceased. His repertoire includes ancient songs and music. Mohamed Zaki thus contributes to preserve this traditional music, which originates in times immemorial and belongs to the Mesopotamian cultural heritage. He is currently a teacher at the High Institute of Music in the city of Souse in Tunisia. The Santour Is an ancient Babylonian instrument which dates back to more than 3000 BC and is one of the main instruments used by performers of the art of the Iraqi Maqam; those groups of performers are known as the Chalghi ...
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In my Current Global Issues class. I was assigned to pick a Human Right that is being violated. I chose the right to clean drinking water in Iraq. The teacher who will remain nameless thought it was terrible and gave me a sub-par grade. My entire class enjoyed it very much and thinks I should enter it in some film festivals.
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• Shocking, compelling, intense... Thom Hartmann, Air America Radio The Torturer aka Force Drift (2009) is a bleeding-edge psycho-thriller from writer/director Graham Green that dives headfirst into an adrenaline-fueled world of psycho-killers, secret prisons, terrorists, and political intrigue. Legendary Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura Star Trek) stars in this sharp new pic along with rising star powerhouse Andrew Walker (Steel Toes, with David Strathairn), and chic Persian newbie Mahsa Masoudi (Revenge of the Nerds 2006). Sophia Choi, former CNN anchor, is also featured. OFFICIAL SELECTION: London Independent & St. Louis International Film Festivals QUOTES: • "I got sucked right in... from beginning to end. It's like a Stephen King/John Grisham short story. SCARY!!! I'm a little spooked now..." Christina Park, WNYW/ Fox 5, New York, CNN • Its the perfect festival film Chad Coles, Asst. Producer, SAW 1,2&3 • I watched the final cut of Torturer today and called Rich to tell him what a riveting film it is -- great performances... James Seale Director of Throttle and Juncture • The flick is killer!! To the Nth degree! You and anybody else can kiss my ass if you., they... whoever thinks different!! Mark Alston, Producer Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress • I wish you the best of luck and say that I appreciate what you are doing. Anthony Lagouranis, author of the biography Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq
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Fifth Manchester Kurdish Film Festival, returns in June for five intensive days of screenings films, workshops, and special events. Film festivals such as the Manchester Kurdish Film Festival are able to produce a platform to promote The Arts and bring together international communities. To continue the success of previous years, KCFC will be opening this year's festival with a spectacular musical performance, featuring a live orchestra, at the Zion Arts Centre flawed by screening a feature, the film from the famous noble "Shary Mosiqara Spiakan" "Shawi Hisab" by Bakhtyar Ali, and directed by Hossen Sewrin. This year's festival will take place at Cornerhouse in Manchester, and will include features, Shorts, and Q&A sessions and filmmaking workshops with feature film directors. The festival will feature the films such as "Son of Babylon" by Mohamad Al Dargy, and "welcome" by Philippe Lioret a fantastic French/ Kurdish Film, most of the films are about Iraq and Kurdistan after the falling of Saddam's regime. MKFF is an exciting festival of Kurdish films, brought to local Manchester and the wider North West region residents who are both Kurdish and non-Kurdish, during the Month of June 2011. MKFF11 is Funded by: KRG UK Representative in London, UK Film Council, Vision+Media, Kurdsat TV, Mufid & Co, Iraqi Consulate in Manchester, Procam North and i-visualise Web design. پێنجهم فستیڤاڵی فیلمی کوردی مانچستهر له 25 تا 28 جون 2011 نمایشهکانی ساز دهکات له کۆڕنهر هاوس سینهما و ...
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shop.shortfilm.com Carrying you through an abstract terrain, the satellite view reveals a hybrid topology made up of the Rigestan Desert and Gawdezerah Lake in Afghanistan, the Nil Dik Mountains and Shin Giro Mountains in Pakistan, Fallujah Iraq, Al Qaqaa Bunkers in Iraq, Heliopolis in Cairo Egypt, the 405 Junction in Los Angeles USA, and finally in the directors native Sasel (suburb) in Hamburg Germany. shop.shortfilm.com Awards Hanse-Short-Juryaward »Special Mention«, 22nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival (06) Festivals: 2006: 22. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg; 25fps Internationali Festival Eksperimentalnog Filma i Vida, Zagreb; 20. Leeds International Film Festival; Festival International de Cinéma d'Aix-en-Provence; 4Filmfestival Bolzano; 23. Tehran International Short Film Festival; Die Neue Filmschau Hamburg/Berlin; 2007: 17. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage; Courtisane Film Festival Ghent; Workshop »Satellite Voyeurism«, HMKV Dortmund; International Sputnik Day Los Angeles
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Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble Live at Reel Iraq 2009. 'Maqam Khanibat' from Iraq. The poem is a love poem about Iraq and Baghdad by the poet Khadir Al Ta'i. A beautiful maqam sung by Farida as part of Reel Iraq 2009. www.reelfestivals.org أسم المقام مقام خنبات من المقامات العراقية الجميلة والقصيدة من أجمل القصائد في حب العراق وبغداد للشاعر خضر الطائي
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In the fall of 2002 the United States began a march toward war with Iraq. After rapid military success, it became painfully apparent there was no plan to secure the peace. A chronology of the Iraq war is told in Gestures. "Gestures chronicles US involvement in Iraq with short bits of text accompanied by appropriate hand gestures—thumbs up and down, an okay sign, the finger and so on; short and punchy, the piece artfully captures five years of misguided policy in two minutes." - LA Weekly. Gestures was produced on a Fisher-Price childrens video camera, manufactured in 1987, for the PXL THIS 16 Festival in Venice CA. The festival director, Gerry Fialka, has subsequently designated Gestures as one of 14 "Best of PXL This" videos selected from the hundreds of PXL2000 videos of the last 16 festivals. Thanks for that Gerry!!
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Watch more at www.linktv.org In late May of 2007 Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival and our host and co-curator for CINEMONDO, traveled to the Kurdish-held area of Northern Iraq and shot an interview with Iranian Kurd filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. Bahman Ghobadi first came to the movie world's attention in 2000, when his first feature film, "A Time for Drunken Horses," won the prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was the first Kurdish language movie ever to gain worldwide attention. Since then Ghobadi has made three more features, all in the Kurdish language. His most recent, "Half Moon," is currently banned in Iran though it has been shown in festivals around the world. Link TV's 17-minute profile of Ghobadi provides a fascinating introduction to the work of a filmmaker who has riveted audiences around the world with his courageous and deeply affecting films about Kurdish life on the Iranian-Iraqi border. For more: linktv.org
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We presented 6 main stage concerts and 6 community outreach events at the Sixth Annual San Francisco World Music Festival (Sept. 26 - Oct. 16, 2005) highlighting musicians from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chile, China, Crete, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and more. The centerpiece of Festival 2005 was the "Nowruz Project", a festival commissioned world premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts created as an international music experiment and an artistic statement for global peace. Combining traditional and newly composed music, poetry, dance, and film, this production was led by a core group of traditional artists from abroad as well as those rooted in the Bay Area's Middle Eastern and Central Asian communities.
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www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
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Another killer performance at the Reading Festival. If you don't know about this band, you're missing out on one of the most important bands of today. If you do, help spread the word... www.refusemusicstore.com www.officialcaseychaos.com www.dieorfollow.com www.myspace.com/refuseamen www.cdbaby.com/cd/caseychaos www.scumband.com ________SPREAD THE CHAOS________
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Created by Vancouver Film School students through the VFS Film Production program: Director - Paul St. Amand Director of Photography - Ian Whittlesey Producer - Elden Stewart Editor - Ian Whittlesey Sound Designer - Gregoire Bedard Read more about the filmmaker's work here: www.vfs.com Festivals & Awards: Calgary International Film Festival (2006) VanCity Theatre "Canada Screens" (2006) Vancouver International Film Festival (2006) Yorkton Film Festival - Golden Sheaf Awards | Nominated - Documentary Category (2007) enRoute Student Film Festival | Winner - Canadian Reflections Award (2007) Triggerstreet Online Short Film Festival | Winner (2008)
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