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My Name is Anik (2019)

Duration: 15:30    Category: International, Opportunities, Short   Opportunity: Bridging the Gap

Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden mother-tongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have remained unspoken.

Screening Formats: DCP, HD file

Highlights
WORLD PREMIERE – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019
Close-Up DocuFest 2019 – Best Scottish Production
Inverness Film Festival 2019
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020
MINT Film Festival 2020
London Short Film Festival 2021
ReFrame Film Festival 2021
Aesthetica Short Film Festival – Journeys Into Film Program 2021
Chesnok Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2021

Community & Cinema Screenings
Govanhill Baths International Women’s Day Film Festival – Glasgow
Eden Court Theatre – Inverness
Migration Matters Film Festival – Sheffield
Plymouth Arts Cinema – Plymouth
Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre – Leicester
​Cinema No.6 – Portsmouth
​HOME Art Centre – Manchester

To arrange a screening please contact: festivals@scotdoc.com

 

This film was developed through Bridging the Gap, an opportunity for emerging filmmakers based in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

DIRECTOR: Bircan Birol
PRODUCER: Tomás Sheridan
DOP: Francesca Tosarelli
EDITOR: Kieran Gosney
SOUND DESIGN/MUSIC: Ali Murray

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