WANA (Dec 10) – The documentary “Singing Wings”, directed by Heyman Khaledi, has been invited to two additional international festivals in Egypt and the Kurdistan Region, expanding its global presence.

 

The film — which previously won Best Documentary at the Busan International Festival, received a nomination in the International Documentary Competition at the BFI London Film Festival, and was also nominated in the documentary section of the Zurich Film Festival — is now set to appear in two new competitive international events.

 

As part of its continued festival journey, “Singing Wings” was screened at the 18th Panorama European Film Festival in Egypt, an event widely regarded as one of the most significant cultural festivals in Africa.

 

Simultaneously, while competing in the National Feature Competition at the 19th Cinema Verité Festival in Iran, the film is also participating in the 12th Duhok International Film Festival in the Kurdistan Region, where it appears in the Kurdish Documentary Competition—a section dedicated to bold and innovative non-fiction works by Kurdish filmmakers from around the world.

 

Singing Wings marks Heyman Khaledi’s first feature-length documentary, a project that took four years to complete from early development through final post-production.

 

The film tells the story of an elderly woman in a mountain village caring for an injured stork, while her daughter prepares to migrate to Europe. It offers a non-judgmental portrayal of migration and a depiction of rural life free from clichés of nostalgia or poverty—framed instead as a human, poetic, and layered narrative.

 

It is a film about a stork, about flight, staying, and leaving—and perhaps above all, about loyalty: loyalty to the land, to family, and to the memories that shape us.

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