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Kurdish Cinema

Imad’s Childhood

icon-director FILM DIRECTORZahavi Sanjavi DATE&TIME30 Sep @ 20:00 icon-venue VENUEPrince Charles Cinema Leicester Square icon-run_time RUN TIME78 mins icon-language-black LANGUAGEKurdish with English Subtitles icon-origin_country REGIONSweden, Kurdistan, Latvia IMAD’S CHILDHOOD icon-strand Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand Imad, a five-year-old Yazidi child, is released from ISIS captivity after two and a half years. During […]
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Heza

icon-director FILM DIRECTORDeria Deniz DATE&TIME27 Sep @ 17:30 icon-venue VENUERIO DALSTON icon-run_time RUN TIME54 mins icon-language-black LANGUAGEKurdish with English Subtitles icon-origin_country REGIONWest, South Kurdistan Heza icon-strand Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand This documentary is about a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped and enslaved during the Islamic State’s (ISIS) attack on Shengal […]
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Heskif

FILM DIRECTOR Elif Yiğit DATE&TIME 26 Sep @ 17:30 VENUE VUE WOOD GREEN RUN TIME 52 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish, Turkish with English Subtitles REGION North Kurdistan Heskif   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand This documentary is about the submersion and the demolition of Hasankeyf, a historical district in Batman that has 12,000 […]
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Brother’s Keeper

FILM DIRECTOR Ferit Karahan DATE&TIME 26 Sep @ 20:00 VENUE VUE WOOD GREEN RUN TIME 85 mins LANGUAGE Kurdish, Turkish with English Subtitles REGION North Kurdistan Brother’s Keeper   Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand Yusuf and his best friend, Memo, are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys. A secluded school, […]
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Blackberry Season

icon-director FILM DIRECTORHaşim Aydemir DATE&TIME28 Sep @ 20:00 icon-venue VENUERIO CINEMA DALSTON icon-run_time RUN TIME96 mins icon-language-black LANGUAGEKurdish with English Subtitles icon-origin_country REGIONNorth Kurdistan Blackberry Season icon-strand Part of the London Kurdish Film Festival Strand A film based on a novel by Murat Turk. Back in his hometown after his university studies, Servan witnessed the […]
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An Introduction to Cinema in Rojava

An Introduction to Cinema in Rojava By Zanyar Omrani The following story is part of a series written by Zanyar Omrani, a Kurdish filmmaker and human rights activist who visited Rojava, or Western Kurdistan, in the spring of 2015. You can watch his film “Without Helmets” here. The history of cinema in the Western Kurdistan, […]
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The First Kurdish Cinema Conference and the National Question

THE FIRST KURDISH CINEMA CONFERENCE AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION By Ali F. Sengul While being politically fragmented has been a problem for the Kurds, one wonders if this multicultural existence as a result of the political fragmentation – Kurds living in the ‘four parts’ and those living in the diaspora, this state of double-spiritedness – would […]
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NOTES FROM THE LONDON KURDISH FILM FESTIVAL 2020

BY WILLIAM BROWN Over the past two weeks or so, it has been a huge honour and a great pleasure to act as a member of the jury for the 2020 London Kurdish Film Festival (as well as to do a workshop/’masterclass’ on no-budget filmmaking with them). I was lucky enough to catch 30 short […]
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