Reşeba - The Dark Wind at Vesoul IFF
Reşeba - The Dark Wind wins the HIGH SCHOOL AWARD and the AUDIENCE AWARD as BEST FICTION FEATURE at Vesoul International Film Festival.
FIPRESCI AWARD for Reşeba - The Dark Wind
REŞEBA – THE DARK WIND won the FIPRESCI AWARD at Dhaka International Film Festival.
RESEBA - THE DARK WIND receives the Top Prize at Dubai IFF
RESEBA - THE DARK WIND is awarded as Best Muhr Fiction Feature at Dubai International Film Festival.
HOUSE WITHOUT ROOF at the Dubai IFF
Director Soleen Yusef will personally present her film HOUSE WITHOUT ROOF at the Dubai International Film Festival, where the film will be screened in the Arabian Nights Section.
REŞEBA – THE DARK WIND at the Dubai IFF
We are very honored to present THE DARK WIND in the Muhr Feature Competition Section at the Dubai International Film Festival! Director Hussein Hassan, producer Mehmet Aktas and main actress Diman Zandi are guests of the Festival and will also attend the screenings.
UNESCO Cultural Diversity Award goes to REŞEBA – THE DARK WIND
Hussein Hassan receives the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Cultural Diversity Award, under the Patronage of UNESCO, for REŞEBA – THE DARK WIND.
International Jury member Nansun Shi (Hong Kong PRC) said “The Dark Wind is a wonderful film, but very sad. Coming to these Awards, I had not realised the subject matter of the Yazidis, and we wanted to highlight this to the world, and bring more attention to these people.”
Producer and screenwriter of THE DARK WIND Mehmet Aktaş dedicates this prize to all Yazidi women who are imprisoned by ISIS.
REŞEBA – THE DARK WIND wins the Grand Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
REŞEBA – THE DARK WIND wins the Grand Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg for the best fiction feature film.
"By its impressive directing, strong script and great actors performance, „The Dark Wind“succeeds in overpassing its dramatic and urgent topic to make it an achieved cinematographic work." - The independent International Jury of 65th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.
THE DARK WIND is Closing film at Busan IFF 2016
Reşeba - The Dark Wind gathered 4.000 people in the audience as Closing film of the 21st Edition of Busan International Film Festival.
house without roof wins friedensfilmpreis in osnabrück
HOUSE WITHOUT ROOF by Soleen Yusef was awarded with the Friedensfilmpreis at the Filmfest Osnabrück. Congratulations!
The Hive receives german-turkish development funding
We are very happy about the support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund for our latest feature film project THE HIVE. The script is written and the film to be directed by Turkish director Eylem Kaftan. It is the first co-production between mîtosfilm and the Istanbul based production company Pero Film. Thanks a lot to the selection committee.