Translating Ulysses + Shorts + Q&A
N/A 140 mins
N/A 140 mins
How can the collective memory of a language be preserved, when its use is repressed by the state? ‘Translating Ulysses follows Kurdish refugee Kawa Nemir in his political experiment of translating James Joyce’s famous novel into Kurdish. With its vast, infinite range of words, symbols and anti-colonial resonance, Ulysses becomes an obsession for him with which he hopes to encapsulate all the Kurdish words and idioms he collected throughout the years.
Plus documentary short A MAN FROM RASH HARME; In 1988, four days after the acceptance of the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq, the village of Zardeh Dalahou in Kermanshah province was chemically bombed by Iraq with three types of gas, and the Yarsans (the local ethnic minority) are still suffering the consequences, and fiction short HOW MANY DAYS WILL IT LAST; Baran works as a food delivery courier with his motorcycle in a restaurant and lives in a rental flat with his wife Zeynep. When Baran’s motorcycle is stolen and he loses his job for this reason, all of his plans are interrupted and his life goes awry.