The Kurdish New Wave

By Yigal Schleifer
· Photography by Yigal Schleifer
Field Notes · From the June 2005 magazine
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Although he has no formal film training, Yasa’s boundless ambition and ego could take him far. “My movie was made with one Handicam. If I have the proper equipment, I can make a movie better than The Matrix,” he says intently. Yasa also has an innate understanding of how the movie business works: he’s already working on the script for Mesopotamian Darkness II.
Schliefer is based in Istanbul. He contributes regularly to the Christian Science Monitor and the Jerusalem Report.
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