10thLKFF 2018

Cano (2017) Feature Film Directed by Mehmet Salih Demir 81 minutes Turkey Turkish-Kurdish with English subtitles Ibrahim learns through a phone call that his close friend Cano has disappeared. When Cano does not come back for an extended period of time, he decides to search for him, which turns into his only aim. His desperate […]

Gênco (2017) Feature Film Directed by Ali Kemal Çınar 80 minutes Turkey Kurdish with English subtitles Ali Kemal is only five years old when someone from another world visits him and grants him superpowers, albeit limited. Calling himself Genco in his new costume to hide his real identity, Ali Kemal tries to help people in […]

Beyond Dreams (2017) Feature Film Directed by Rojda Sekersöz 90 minutes Sweden Swedish with English subtitles Rebellious Mirja must find her place after serving time in jail. Wanting to break from her past, she is torn between her sick mother and sister and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family. […]

Reşeba – The Dark Wind Feature Film Directed by Hussein Hassan 90 minutes Germany Kurdish with English subtitles Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi couple prepare for marriage, turning their lives and their love upside down. Vue Wood Green, 21st April 2018 @19:30

House Without Roof (2016) Feature Film Directed by Soleen Yusef 117 minutes Germany, Iraq German-Kurdish with English subtitles Three Kurdish siblings from Germany return to Kurdistan to fulfil their mother’s last wish of being buried in her homeland beside her husband, who fell in the battle against Saddam Hussein. During this fraught Kurdish odyssey they […]

Ugly Duckling (2017) Feature Film Directed by Ender Özkahraman 91 minutes Turkey Kurdish-Turkish with English subtitles Eylem is a young woman living in a small Kurdish town. She dreams of having cosmetic surgery for her nose, which she deems too large. Meanwhile, one of her brothers has joined the guerrilla forces, and many others from […]

Zer (2017) Feature Film 📷 Directed by Kazim Öz 113 minutes Germany, Turkey, USA Turkish-Kurdish-English with English subtitles Jan is moved by a song his grandmother, a survivor of the Dersim Massacre, sings to him on her deathbed. He begins a journey through Kurdistan, searching for the truth behind the song, his grandma’s past and […]

The Swallow (2016) Feature Film Directed by Mano Khalil 103 minutes Switzerland Swiss German-Kurdish-English with English subtitles The young Swiss girl Mira searches for her lost father in Kurdistan with the help of her Kurdish friend Ramo. The two become closer when travelling, however a dark past and political issues make everything difficult. Vue Wood […]

The Legend of The Ugly King (2017) Documentary Film 📷 Directed by Hüseyin Tabak 122 minutes Germany, Austria English—Turkish—French—German with English subtitles They called him ‘The Ugly King’ but who was Yılmaz Güney? Director Hüseyin Tabak sets out to answer this very question with The Legend of the Ugly King, which explores the legacy of […]

Radio Kobani (2016) Documentary Film Directed by Reber Dosky 68 minutes The Netherlands Kurdish with English subtitles Radio Kobani tells the extraordinary story of 20-year old reporter Dilovan, the brainchild of ‘Radio Kobani’, who takes it upon herself to document the final days of IS control, and the stories of refugees returning to their flattened […]