10thLKFF 2018

Meryem (2017) Documentary Film Directed by Reber Dosky 17 minutes The Netherlands Kurdish with English Subtitles Filmed during the battle of Kobani, Meryem reveals the women at the heart of the fight against IS. With stoical perseverance and the aid of American airstrikes, these women are leading the fight for freedom. Vue Wood Green, 15th […]

Resistance is Life (2017) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Apo Bazidi 1hr 13 minutes Turkey/USA From a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border, an 8-year-old girl, Evlin, characterises the resistance of her homeland, Kobane against the ISIS. Evlin takes us on a journey that introduces the many different faces of the resistance on both sides […]

Dil Leyla (2016) Documentary Film Directed by Asli Özarslan 71 minutes Germany Kurdish– Turkish –Germany with English subtitles At 26, Leyla Imret becomes the youngest mayor in Turkey, having been elected as the Mayor of Cizre in 2014. After 21 years, Leyla returns to Cizre, where she had to flee at the age of five […]

Binxêt – Under the border (2017) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Luigi D’Alife 94 minutes Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, English, Italian with English subtitles “Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom, taking place along the 911 km of the Turkish-Syrian border. The film is about […]

Dada Saltaneh (2017) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Hadi Ahmadi 20 minutes Iran Kurdish with English subtitles Dada Saltaneh is a women who has been highly interested in cinema since childhood. She tries to achieve her goals in cinema despite the many difficulties she encounters in her life. Vue Wood Green, 16th April 2018 @20:30

Selfie (2016) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Juan Ibesh 41 minutes Syria Kurdish with English subtitles Selfie is a film about a refugees’ journey from Turkey to Germany through the Mediterranean sea, crossing many European borders and facing various difficulties on the way. The film depicts the couples inner conflict between continuing ahead and returning […]

Facing Death with Wirecutter (2017) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Sarwar Abdullah 45 minutes Iraq Kurdish with English subtitles A military engineering team of Kurdistan Peshmerga forces, working with some simple equipment like wire cutters and wire blades remove bombs and mines planted by the ISIS group, often facing many obstacles and making sacrifices on […]

The Gentle Giant (2017) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Kioumars Mohammadchenari 3 minutes Iran An old man destroying an ant’s formicary in order to collect wheat for himself. One day during his lunch break he rethinks his job. SOAS, 21st April 2018 @12:00

Let Our Men Dance (2015) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Hiwa Aminnejad 5 minutes Iran Kurdish The story of Kurdish women labouring, weaving clothes for their men to dance in. SOAS, 21st April 2018 @12:00

They Say We Worship Satan (2017) Special Screening Directed by Gwynne Roberts 42 minutes United Kingdom English—Kurdish with English subtitles They Say We Worship Satan is a film about a Yazidi family surviving the horrors of ISIS. We meet the family by chance in Sinjar, Northwest Iraq in January 2014, seven months before the region […]