ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - London Kurdish film festival’s in-person edition is set to kick off on Friday after it went online due to the coronavirus pandemic in the past two years.
In its 13th year, the London #Kurdish Film# Festival (LKFF) will start displaying 31 films comprising 15 feature fiction and 16 short films for one week.
Programming Assistant Shler Murdochy told Rudaw's Pasar Faiq on Tuesday that the festival is being held with the support of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and will screen Kurdish films produced between 2021 and this year.
The KRG is one of LKFF's seven partners.
It will open with feature fiction Ciran, or Neighbor to connect the audience with the Syrian tragedy while a feature documentary about Yazidis will be displayed for the closing on September 30.
The festival is also continuing with its tradition of awards where its juries will deliberate on seven different film categories, including best actor and actress.
LKFF moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Last year it partnered with 10 other Kurdish film festivals around the world, including Sulaimani, northeast Syria (Rojava), Moscow, and Los Angeles, and held the Global Kurdish Film Festival online where more than 100 Kurdish films were available to watch for free.
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LKFF was launched in 2001 to bring together films from across the Kurdish regions and the rest of the world to film audiences in London.