Dêrsîm Zêrevan

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1980-02-10 (44 years old)

Also Known As Dersim Zerevan, Jihan Asaad Sheikhmous

Dêrsîm Zêrevan

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.

Known For

Director

2022
2021
Red Pages

as Director

Writer

2006
Bêrîtan

as Writer

Actor