{"id":33485,"date":"2025-11-03T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/?p=33485"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:09:48","slug":"new-award-winning-documentary-produced-by-gulay-kilicaslan-night-and-fog-in-kurdistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2025\/new-award-winning-documentary-produced-by-gulay-kilicaslan-night-and-fog-in-kurdistan\/","title":{"rendered":"New award-winning documentary produced by Gulay Kilicaslan: &#8220;Night and Fog in Kurdistan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New award-winning documentary produced by Gulay Kilicaslan: &#8220;Night and Fog in Kurdistan&#8221;\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2025\/11\/FEF_Toronto-CROPPED-768x665.jpeg); background-position: 50% 0%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentary film <em>Night and Fog in Kurdistan<\/em>, directed by Kurdish filmmaker Shilan Saadi&nbsp;and produced by Keywan Fahimi&nbsp;and our faculty member Dr. Gulay Kilicaslan, recently won Best Foreign Feature Documentary&nbsp;at the Female Eye Film Festival&nbsp;at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. The film has also received Best International Documentary&nbsp;(8th Amicorti International Film Festival, Rome), Equality Feature&nbsp;(JACKSON DOC Film Festival, Tennessee), and Best Canadian Film&nbsp;(6th Human-Environment Care Film Festival, Toronto).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Night and Fog in Kurdistan<\/em>&nbsp;follows seven Yezidi teenage survivors of the 2014 ISIS genocide over five years, tracing their difficult migration journey from camps in Northern Kurdistan\u2013Turkey to Europe. Using innovative mixed methods of documentary making, namely graphics, maps, archival research, and first-person storytelling, the film documents the lasting trauma of genocide, the gendered and intersectional impacts of displacement, and the resistance of these young women as they turn their cameras on themselves, sharing their survival and growth through multiple displacements. This documentary is closely connected to Dr. Kilicaslan\u2019s SSHRC-IDG funded research&nbsp;on Yezidi survivors\u2019 resettlement in Canada after the 2014 ISIS genocide, and Shilan and Gulay are currently collaborating on another documentary in Canada&nbsp;based on this ongoing research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the trailer for this documentary below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer - Night and Fog in Kurdistan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2hUT1I7cSfI?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary film Night and Fog in Kurdistan, directed by Kurdish filmmaker Shilan Saadi&nbsp;and produced by Keywan Fahimi&nbsp;and our faculty member Dr. Gulay Kilicaslan, recently won Best Foreign Feature Documentary&nbsp;at the Female Eye Film Festival&nbsp;at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. The film has also received Best International Documentary&nbsp;(8th Amicorti International Film Festival, Rome), Equality Feature&nbsp;(JACKSON DOC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":33497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33521,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485\/revisions\/33521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}