Festival Forum: New York Kurdish Film and Cultural Festival 2021
I Will Wait
Mohammed Sherwani
2017
11 Minutes
Bashur, South Kurdistan
Festival Forum
Date
October 7–21, 2021
I Will Wait tells the story of single mother and widow named Sohaila, whose husband, a Peshmerga fighter, was martyred in the war against ISIS. She leads a difficult life alone with her baby daughter in a flat, and tries to get her neighbors to look after her daughter while she earns a living working at a restaurant.
I Will Wait is one of twelve films picked by the programmers of the fifth edition of the New York Kurdish Film and Cultural Festival as part of a special feature on e-flux Video & Film, streaming for two weeks from October 7–21 and accompanied by a conversation between the festival’s founder Xeyal Qertel and e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis. See the full program here.
The program is part of the series Festival Forum on e-flux Video & Film, presenting collaborations with established and emerging moving-image festivals from around the world.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.