The 8th London Kurdish Film Festival will be running from 15 to 24 November, with a full and exciting programme of feature films, documentaries and shorts from all four parts of Kurdistan.


The opening gala film this year will be the UK premiere of BEFORE SNOWFALL, a thought provoking film about honour killing by multi-award winning director Hisham Zaman; who will be in attendance at the festival.

Also included in the star studded and award-winning feature line-up is master filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s UK premiere of RHINO SEASON, starring Monica Bellucci and Behrouz Vossoughi; the UK premiere of ever-present Hiner Saleem’s Cannes selected MY SWEET PEPPERLAND, the first ‘Kurdish Western’; the internationally acclaimed BEKAS (UP & AWAY) by Karzan Kader, a film about two Kurdish brothers trying to travel to America to meet Superman; Antalya Golden Orange Best Film Winner YOUR BEAUTY IS WORTH NOTHING by Huseyin Tabak; renowned director Reha Erdem’s JIN, which tells the story of a young Kurdish woman trying to survive in a patriarchal world and award winning REC (TRACE) by Tayfur Aydin, the story of a son who struggles against authorities to bury his mother in her homeland.