Sender: İlhan Sami Çomak

Imprisoned since 1994, Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak is one of Turkey's longest-serving political prisoners. This documentary highlights his quest for justice and freedom, told through Çomak’s own poems.

Sender: İlhan Sami Çomak 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@e-flux.com.