My Mothers’ Tale (WT) was selected for the 2023-2024 Close Up Initiative. They support filmmakers in developing and creating compelling documentaries that illuminate the social and political realities of our complex and ever-changing region.

Mizgin Arslan with mentors Bruni Burres and Joelle Alexis in Urla, March, 2024

Q&A after the film screening at Istanbul Film Festival

Q&A after the screening of Arin at Istanbul Film Festival in 2018

While receiving Mirella Galetti Award in Pordenone, Italy. 2014

Chennai (Madras) Women Film Festival, India, 20009. Q &A after the screening of The Last Game and A Fatal Dress Polygamy

Elegez, a Kurdish Yazidi village in Armenia. 2009

Project development research, Batman, Turkey. 2008

Festival du Court Métrage Méditerranéen de Tangier, Marocco. 2007

A still from the short film Houses With Small Windows (2013) Mizgin Arslan is credited as a scriptwriter and actor.

Presenting Kurdish cinema at Rome Kurdish Film Festival. 2013

Filming a demonstration in Bilbao. Mizgin was granted artist residency by the Basque Writer Association in Pasaia, San Sebastian in 2010.

Project development research, Batman, Turkey. 2008

Mizgin followed Armenian journalist Karin Grigoryan as she embarked on a journey to find her grandparent's home in Bursa, Turkey.

Arslan’s the first short film The Last Game’s first award. 2007.

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