Several years ago, a few people refused to accept that Erbil couldn’t have a new international airport. They imagined it differently. And now there is one.
Several years ago, a few people, refusing to accept that the Kurdistan Region should be cut off from international centers of learning, pictured in their minds thousands of Kurdish students studying abroad in the UK. They are now doing so.
Some British archeologists are currently imagining that they can with KRG permission dig down into the centre of the Citadel and find remains from 3,000 BC of the Temple of Ishtar. And what a find that would be.
That same optimism and dreaming was in the eyes of the young Kurdish film-makers who attended the workshops entitled “From passion to market”, at the British Film Festival run by the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS). Those young film-makers from the Kurdistan Region were imagining their films showing at film festivals around the world. And why should that not happen? It may not be next year, but it will surely happen at some stage.
Of course, not all dreams become reality. Some creative people are unable to convince other people of the potential of their dreams: there are many more screenplays that are started and not finished, and many more screenplays that are finished but not made, than completed films.
But an open and thriving society is one in which people feel that their creative ideas – be they in business, society, culture or even politics – are at least given a chance to succeed. It feels like that is happening in Kurdistan Region.
For more information about the British Film Festival in Kurdistan, please see www.bffk.net.
(Source: Rudaw)
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