Nimet Gatar’s first feminist documentary GotûbeJin premiered at the 1st Düsseldorf Kurdish Film Festival in April 2024. Gatar graduated from the Department of Archaeology in 2011. Between 2016-2018, she worked on gender studies as a member of the editorial board and editor of the Journal of Jineolojî. Between 2019-2021, she studied ‘Representation of women in the new Kurdish cinema’ in her sociology master’s degree. In 2021, she worked on ‘Masculinity in Kurdish Cinema’ with Hamit Bozarslan at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/EHESS Paris as part of the Erasmus internship project. She is currently a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/EHESS, working on her thesis titled ‘Representations of Masculinity in Kurdish Cinema’.
