The Manchester Kurdish Film festival returns to the city for its fifth year in June, bringing an exciting array of features and short films for you to enjoy, including a number of UK premieres. With stories about life, love, and war this year’s festival provides a selection of inspiring films, which are bound to stay with you long after viewing. The festival also offers the opportunity for you to meet a number of the filmmakers at Q&A sessions following the screenings. Be part of this year’s festival and experience an insight into Kurdish cinema.
Charley’s Problem and No One Knows About Persian Cats are no longer screening as part of this festival. All screenings will start without adverts and trailers at the advertised screening times.
Organised by Kurdish Creative Film Centre and funded by KRG UK Representative, Vision+Media, UK Film Council, Kurdsat TV and the Iraq Consulate in Manchester. In partnership with Cornerhouse, Zion Arts Centre, Lost Melody Music Group, CAN and KAC.
Previously in this season
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Son of Babylon
Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein news comes that prisoners of war have been found alive. 12-year-old Ahmed begrudgingly follows his grandmother on…
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A Place for Playing (Kick Off)
In a half-destroyed Iraqi football stadium, refugees live in a hastily assembled shantytown. But when a football match between the Kurdish and Iraqi boys of…
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The Quarter of Scarecrows
Inspired by the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran in which millions of innocent civilians died, The Quarter of Scarecrows is a disturbing allegory about…
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Filmmakers Q&A/ Son of Babylon
We are pleased to welcome director Mohamed Al Daradji and producer Isabelle Stead for a post-screening Q&A following the one-off showing of Son of Babylon.