Kurdish Cinema

FILM DIRECTOR Muhammed Seyyid Yildiz DATE&TIME 24 Sep @ 14:00 VENUE VUE WOOD GREEN RUN TIME 19 mins LANGUAGE Non-dialogue REGION United Kingdom Ajotin   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand An illegal Kurdish refugee borrows the car of his dreams for a joyride around London. Freedom starts to get blurry when a […]

FILM DIRECTOR TARIQ TOFIQ QADR DATE&TIME 25 Sep @ 17:30 VENUE VUE WOOD GREEN RUN TIME 23 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish with English Subtitles REGION South Kurdistan 13th of MAY   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand The first protests against the Ba’athist regime in Iraq began in Halabja in 1987. The people of […]

FILM DIRECTOR Perwîz Rostemî DATE&TIME 24 Sep @ 20:00 VENUE VUE RUN TIME 23 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish with English Subtitles REGION East Kurdistan Seven Symphonies of Zagros   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand Seven Zagros Symphonies narrates the philosophy of seven musical Maqams of the oldest wind instrument (Shamshal) in the life […]

FILM DIRECTOR Serpil Turhan DATE&TIME 24 Sep @ 14:00 VENUE Vue Wood Green RUN TIME 90 mins LANGUAGE German, Turkish, Kurdish with English Subtitles REGION Germany, North Kurdistan KÖY   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for belonging, for home, for security and the freedom […]

icon-director FILM DIRECTORAntonia Kilian DATE&TIME29 Sep @ 18:00 icon-venue VENUERIO icon-run_time RUN TIME90 mins icon-language-black LANGUAGEKurdish icon-origin_country REGIONGermany THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER icon-strand Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand In order to avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala ran away from her jihadist, ISIS supporting family and found shelter across the […]

FILM DIRECTOR Shawkat Amin Korki DATE&TIME 24 Sep @ 20:00 VENUE Vue RUN TIME 89 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish with English Subtitles REGION Germany, South Kurdistan, Qatar THE EXAM   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand Rojin, a heartbroken young woman who is suffering from depression after the disappearance of her fiancé, is preparing […]

FILM DIRECTOR Arsalan Amiri DATE&TIME 25 Sep @ 17:30 VENUE VUE WOOD GREEN RUN TIME 93 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish, Persian with English Subtitles REGION East Kurdistan, Iran ZALAVA   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand  In 1978, the inhabitants of a small village in Iran called Zalava claim there is a demon among […]

FILM DIRECTOR Anna M. Borafull DATE&TIME 25 Sep @ 14:00 VENUE VUE WOOD GREEN RUN TIME 128 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish, Arabic, Catalan with English Subtitles REGION Spain, Kurdistan SINJAR   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand  In 2014, ISIS invade Sinjar in a genocidal campaign. Sinjar depicts the tale of three women. Hadia […]