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Members of the London Kurdish Film Festival Committee spoke to Medya News giving all the last minute details about the 13th London Kurdish Film Festival including details of how to get tickets, what visitors can expect and details of the venues and events being held this year against the backdrop of the Kurdish people’s struggles in all parts of Kurdistan. The theme of this year’s edition is ‘Hope’.
Ferhan Sterk (Director), Pervin Ergul (Media and Events Manager), Sehriban Suyor (Programme Director), Kali Jaff (Marketting and PR), Shler Murdochy (Programming Assistant) and Bill Attack (Logistics and Hospitality Manager) joined Mark Campbell from Medya News on the eve of the opening to give last minute details about this years event.
The London Kurdish Film Festival was established in 2001 by a team of young filmmakers from Kurdistan who came together in London. It is the largest film festival of its kind, bringing together films from Kurdistan and the rest of the world to audiences in London.
The London Kurdish Film Festival is managed and produced by a small team of dedicated volunteers and has come such a long way since its birth and 12 successful editions, each year growing in size and significance.
The London Kurdish Film Festival, taken from its website, ‘…believes that cinema is a powerful and influential form of artistic expression and one which carries great importance especially for the Kurds, who have, like all oppressed nations, transformed cinema into a tool for emancipation and self-expression. The London Kurdish Film Festival provides a critical platform for Kurdish and non-Kurdish filmmakers to showcase films of any style, topic and genre that highlight the untold stories and experiences of Kurdish people around the world.’
The London Kurdish Film Festival also offers increased access and engagement with Kurdish films that might not otherwise be seen by UK audiences and in doing so, helps grow film audiences in the UK, raising the profile of Kurdish cinema across the UK and internationally.
It serves as a showcase event for Kurdish cinema, and strives to contribute to the growth and development of the Kurdish film industry by nurturing and rewarding exceptional Kurdish talent and cinema from the region, and around the world.
This year, from 23-30 September, LKFF will be presenting a pre-selected film programme in three different venues; The VUE cinema in Wood Green, north London, the Rio Cinema in Dalston, north London and the Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square, central London and is offering a rich and diverse festival programme with 31 films, comprising of 15 feature fictions and 16 shorts films.
All details can be found the London Kurdish Film Festival website.
