As part of the Q&A series of the 10th Norient Film Festival 2021, the director Georg Mürer and ethnomusicologist Martin Stokes met to talk about Mürer’s film «Her Bijî Granî» (USA, Kurdistan, Türkiye 2020).
Short EssayLove songs tend to be seen as unpolitical. Granî however, the energetic Kurdish wedding music merging folk with electronic music, contains significant political meanings. An essay by Martin Stokes on the power of hidden dissent cultures, inspired by George Mürer’s film «Her Bijî Granî».