Dear friends,
For those of you who do not yet know, the 8th London Kurdish Film Festival will soon be upon us, 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.
Find out more on the 8th London Kurdish Film festival website: http://www.lkff.co.uk/
The full programme can be downloaded from the website and is attached here.
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Peace in Kurdistan Campaign for a political solution of the Kurdish QuestionEmail: estella24@tiscali.co.uk <mailto:estella24@tiscali.co.uk>
www.peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com
Contacts Estella Schmid 020 7586 5892 & Melanie Sirinathsingh - Tel: 020 7272 7890
Fax: 020 7263 0596
Patrons: Lord Avebury, Lord Rea, Lord Dholakia, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, Jill Evans MEP, Jean Lambert MEP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Hywel Williams MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP, Conor Murphy MP, John Austin, Bruce Kent, Gareth Peirce, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, John Berger, Edward Albee, Margaret Owen OBE, Prof Mary Davis, Mark Thomas
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