Director

Dersim Zerevan

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 1787239

Known for: Directing

Born: February 10, 1980

Age: 46

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2006 - 2022

Years active: 17

Also known as

Jihan Asaad Sheikhmous • Dêrsîm Zêrevan

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Director (3)Writer (1)

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Biography

Jihan Asaad Sheikhmous (Dersim Zerevan) was born on February 10, 1980 in Qamishlo, Rojava. She is the second child of a family of 8 children, 3 girls and 5 boys. Her activism for social justice started secondary school. She was on the frontlines of the social movements against the persecution of the Kurds by the Syrian regime between 1996-2000. She started to compile guerrilla memoirs and poems at the Literature School in early 2000s. Afterwards, she made researches on Zilan (Zeynep Kınacı) for about three years and prepared a novel in Arabic. She started cinema as a student of Halil Dağ (Halil İbrahim Uysal) after 2004. Her first movie as a director was a documentary about Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansız, Sara, my whole life was a struggle. Her second movie was Rûpelên Sor. In 2019, she made a film in Shengal about the Yazidis.

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