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.

More on the 8th London Kurdish Film festival website: http://www.lkff.co.uk/