A film by Pia Rönicke and Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak
Wednesday 29 April 2026
7pm at Hypnos Theatre
Free entry

The film Facing – A Usual Story from an Unknown Country (2008) is a collaborative project between Danish artist Pia Rönicke and Kurdish writer Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak. While they met in LA in 2006, some time later Rönicke proposed making a film adaptation of Kızılyaprak’s short story Knock… knock… knock, where he narrates his experience in the cell of a Turkish torture center. Since 1980, the regime in Turkey has actively sought to erase the Kurdish language, sense of belonging, right to a homeland, place in history and ability to speak. The film revolves around the meeting between Kadir, a young revolutionary locked in one cell, and an old religious man in the neighboring cell. They get in contact with each other through a little pipe hole, through which they try to have small conversations and to help each other. The story is told from the perspective of its writer from a present day position, depicting a meeting between the storyteller and a character in the story.

Facing – A Usual Story from an Unknown Country is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Drifters’ Archive by Pia Rönicke, an exhibition in two parts presented at Fuxia 2 until 9 April (Norra Grängesbergsgatan 19, Malmö) and SIGNAL until 14 June.

Location: Hypnos Theatre, Norra Grängesbergsgatan 15, Malmö