Southern Stars, the hiker’s constellation
The hiking route ‘Southern Stars’ [called ‘Estels del sud’ in Catalan] crosses the Natural Park of ‘Els Ports’, located in a mountain range right at the meeting point between the regions of Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon. Over five days, the route passes through the picturesque villages of Paüls, Arnes and Beseït. This is a great […]
The Silent Revolution in London Kurdish Film Festival
The cinema, as a cultural format, is a tool to explain reality to the world. Cinema, for the Kurdish People —divided, oppressed and ignored— is one of the best instruments to show their situation outside their territory, to unify the nation and keep the Diaspora together. This is one of the ideas underlined in the […]
The silent revolution of Kurds in Syria
I imagined we would find façades with sigs of shrapnel, burned houses, shops with closed shutters, supermarkets with empty shelves and streets without people, full of debris and abandoned tanks. This is the image the media usually gives of Syrian cities in conflict, but not all the towns in the area look like this. In […]