11thLKFF 2020

HEAR THEIR HEARTBEAT 📷 Short Documentary Directed by Volkan Güney Eker Produced by Orçun Göçgün North Kurdistan / 2019 / 14 min / Turkish with English Subtitles. -Many people taken into custody end up disappearing in Turkey. Having lost her father after an arrest made in 1995, Besna gathers every week with Saturday Mothers in […]

HUSH IN COMPETITION 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Nursel Doğan North Kurdistan / 2018 / 15 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Zere and her family live in a small Kurdish village in the city of Ağrı. Zere has a particular interest in music and the sounds of nature. She plays on whatever she finds […]

LIFE GONE WITH THE WIND 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Siavash Saed Panah East Kurdistan / 2019 / 7 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -An elderly woman reminisces back to her childhood and her unfulfilled dreams when she discovers a kite in her garden. 17th August, 2020 at 6:45pm

ROJEK LE ROJAN 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Zhino Hadi South Kurdistan / 2019 / 10 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Dunia is a 17-year-old girl. After she was raped by her uncle, she falls pregnant and seeks help in one of the shelters in KRI, and secretly plans to have an abortion. 17th […]

ROJAVA IN COMPETITION 📷Short Animation Directed by Emmanuel Temps, Hugo Voisin, Marion Bideplan, Guillaume Montoya, Noumi Thiriet Produced by Franck Petitta North Kurdistan / 2018 / 15 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Rihan is a young Kurdish woman who witnesses her father’s death by the bullets of Daesh (ISIS). In turn, it sparks her decision […]

ZHWAN 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Kaveh Jahed East Kurdistan / 2019 / 14 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -On the night of her engagement, Zhwan does not leave her room as she is awaiting the groom. When he enters, the bride argues about the demands that his family has made. They want her […]

FOR CAMERA WINNER OF THE LKFF HONORARY AWARD -📷 Short Documentary Directed by Mostafa Shahrokhi East Kurdistan / 2019 / 22 min / Kurdish, Persian with English Subtitles. -A Kurdish family is being recorded on camera, are we sure they are not aware of it? 17th August 2020 at 5:30 pm

IN COMPETITION 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Volkan Uludağ North Kurdistan / 2019 / 21 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -This film is based on the striking and deep-rooted Middle Eastern mourning tradition, Porkur, and how there is no gain in war through the inner tensions of a woman. 17th August, 2020 at 5:00pm