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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 […]

Writing on the City (2016) Special Screening 📷 Directed by Keywan Karimi 60 minutes Iran Persian with English subtitles Writing on the City is a reflection on political graffiti on the walls of Tehran, spanning from the 1979 Islamic Revolution to Iran’s contested 2009 election. In October 2015, director Karimi was sentenced by the Islamic […]

Buka Baranê (2017) Short Film Directed by Kudret Gunes 15 minutes France Kurdish with Kurdish & English subtitles Arya, a 7-year old nomadic Kurdish girl lives at the “Karacadag” mountain in the south of Turkey. One day while walking her herd of sheep, she finds a strange object which she takes for a toy. Vue […]

Homage to Kobane (2018) Short Film 📷 Directed by SORAN Qurbani 13 minutes UK Homage to Kobane is a story of a goodbye letter from Narin, a 19-years old female fighter, to her mum that takes us to destroyed city with lost memories buried under rubble. SOAS, 21st April 2018 @17.00

Annunciation (2016) Short Film 📷 Directed by Halit Ruhat Yildiz 21.30 minutes Germany German & Turkish with English subtitles After a night of boozing, Ceren confides in her husband that she has stopped taking the pill and that she wants a child, but Ali has a hidden secret from his past. After learning the truth, […]

The Well (2016) Short Film 📷 Directed by Ridvan Yavuz 15 minutes Turkey Kurdish & Turkish with English & Turkish subtitles Yakup and his younger brother Bedo travel to another village everyday for school. Yakup’s notebook is out of blank pages and they desperately search for a new notebook. Rio Cinema, 19th April 2018 @20:30

Roj Means Sun (2016) Short Film 📷 Directed by Mahsa Razavi 18.12 minutes Iran/Canada Kurdish with English subtitles Rojin, a Kurdish- Canadian girl battles both her mother and her mother tongue, as she grieves the recent death of her father, killed in a battle in the Shingal Mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan. Vue Wood Green, 14th April […]