9thLKFF 2015

Come to My Voice Feature Film 📷 Director: Huseyin Karabey Cast: Feride Gezer, Melek Ülger, Tuncay Akdemir North Kurdistan / 2014 / 105 min – Kurdish (Kurmanji), Turkish with English subtitles In a remote Kurdish village in the mountains, little Jiyan is worried about her father who has been arrested by Turkish soldiers, as he […]

Letter to the King Feature Film 📷 Director: Hisham Zaman Cast: Ali Bag Salimi, Zheer Durhan, Nazmi Kirik Norway / 2014 / 73 min – Kurdish-Norwegian-Farsi with English subtitles Letter to the King portrays five people on a day trip from a refugee camp to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. But […]

Blue Van Feature Film 📷 Director: Ömer Leventoğlu Cast: Ezgi Çelik, Nazmi Kırık, Kemal Ulusoy North Kurdistan / 2013 / 87 min – Turkish-Kurdish with English subtitles The film is a “tight” perspective on the history of resistance in prisons of Turkey during an 18-hour road tale of inmates transferred from one prison to another. […]

Memories on Stone Feature Film 📷 Director: Shawkat Amin Korki Cast: Hussein Hassan, Nazmi Kirik, Shima Molaei South Kurdistan / 2015 / 97 min – Kurdish with English subtitles Kurdish childhood friends Hussein (37) and Alan (40) direct and produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, during the Anfal campaign in […]

Gone ́The Other And The Unknown ́ Feature Film 📷 Director: Kenan Korkmaz Cast: Yuhannun Akay, Savaş Özdemir, Ruhi Sarı North Kurdistan / 2014 / 97 min – Aramaic, Kurdish, Swedish, Turkish with English subtitles Gone ‘The Other And The Unknown’ is the second feature film of Kenan Korkmaz, the winner of the Golden Orange […]

MARDAN Feature Film 📷 Director: Batin Ghobadi Cast: Hossein Hasan, Helly Luv, Feyyaz Duman South Kurdistan / 2014 / 110 min – Kurdish with English subtitles Mardan is a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter, who bears a great burden. Leila, a young Kurdish woman comes to Iraq in search of Morad, who has been missing for days. […]

THE FALL FROM HEAVEN Feature Film 📷 Director: Ferit Karahan Cast: Ezgi Asaroglu, Rojin Tekin, Gülistan Acet North Kurdistan & Turkey / 2014 / 88 min Kurdish (Kurmanji), Turkish with English subtitles Emine works as an electrical engineer on a construction site where mostly Kurdish workers are employed. After the death of her brother in […]

Before Dawn Documentary 📷 Director(s): Ömer Leventoğlu and İhsan Kaçar Rojava and Turkey / 2015 Length: 70 minutes Kurdish with English subtitles In 2014 the world witnessed an unexpected event unfold. ISIS claimed jihad in the name of Islam, and the Middle East fell into the hands of a violent and destructive war. The movement […]