AKFF 2024 Program

Festival Days
Dalkurd's remarkable rise, founded to engage young Kurdish refugees in a Swedish town, is a tale of underdogs triumphing against the odds, shedding light on the Kurds' plight as the…

Sat 11 May 2024, 15:00
Sun 12 May 2024, 17:00

Sinjar, Southern Kurdistan, 2014: Hanifa, a young Yezidi woman, miraculously survives the ISIS attack on the Yezidi religious and ethnic minority in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. Hanifa escapes…

Sun 12 May 2024, 11:00

Gule is preparing her life-long dream wedding in Serekaniye, a city in West-Kurdistan. But the city is bombed by the Turkish army, and the invasion starts. Gule has to flee…

Sat 11 May 2024, 17:45
Sun 12 May 2024, 12:30

Elaha is a young Kurdish-German woman torn between the unconditional love for her family and her own aspirations in life. Although she cares most about having a good time with…

Sun 12 May 2024, 16:45

In Rojhelat, the Sirwan River splits a village, connected by a risky footbridge over a gorge. Shaho, a beloved teacher in both parts, once saved a student, Aram, from drowning…

Sat 11 May 2024, 15:30

In a remote city in northeastern Turkey, a German film crew attempts to shoot a documentary while a Turkish surveillance agent deals with seemingly mysterious forces haunting his young daughter.…

Sat 11 May 2024, 19:30
Sun 12 May 2024, 14:30

Latif al Ani, born in Baghdad in 1932 is known as the 'father of Iraqi photography’. His work forms a unique visual archive of Iraq during its heydays from the…

Sat 11 May 2024, 20:00

MOTHER TONGUE_POSTER
Four decades after the adoption of Article 15 in the Iranian Constitution, the right to mother tongue education still has not made official progress in Iran. Despite the many obstacles,…

Sat 11 May 2024, 16:15

Name_me_Lawand_POSTER
Void of any language or a true sense of self, profoundly deaf 6 years old Lawand is challenged to adapt to his new home in Derbyshire after a traumatic and…

Sat 11 May 2024, 17:15

The 1915 Armenian relocation significantly impacted Kurdish families like the Dikrans from Eğilli, Diyarbakır. Nine-year-old Nişan Dikran, known as Master Nişo, fled with his mother after losing two brothers. Similarly,…

Sat 11 May 2024, 13:00

AKFF 2024 poster
Short films are all too often overlooked in the film world. But we know that their power and impact are just as valuable as those of longer films. This year…

Fri 10 May 2024, 19:00
Sun 12 May 2024, 10:30

Xatar’s path from the ghetto to the top of the music charts is a dramatic adventure story. From the hell of an Iraqi prison, Giwar Hajabi came to Germany as…

Sat 11 May 2024, 11:00

ROJEK offers an intimate gaze at an unknown reality, testifying of pivotal moments experienced by the actors of this conflict. The film tackles how this ideological war is only the…

Sat 11 May 2024, 19:15

Life in a Kurdish village in Eastern Turkey is routine for Grandfather Hamit. Every day for the last 5 years he visits his wife’s grave. Political problems force Hamit and…

Sat 11 May 2024, 11:00

AKFF 2024 poster
Short films are all too often overlooked in the film world. But we know that their power and impact are just as valuable as those of longer films. This year…

Sat 11 May 2024, 13:45

AKFF 2024 poster
Short films are all too often overlooked in the film world. But we know that their power and impact are just as valuable as those of longer films. This year…

Sun 12 May 2024, 11:15

AKFF 2024 poster
Short films are all too often overlooked in the film world. But we know that their power and impact are just as valuable as those of longer films. This year…

Sun 12 May 2024, 15:00

The Beekeeper_AKFF_2024
Ibrahim Gezer has lost everything in his Kurdish homeland: his wife, two of his own children and, with its over five hundred bee colonies, also the basis of life. All…

Sun 12 May 2024, 13:45

The_Land_of_Buried_Women_POSTER
A man, has been working in the graveyard of murdered and orphaned women for more than 13 years. He is both a gravedigger and a gardener in a special graveyard…

Fri 10 May 2024, 20:15

THE PASHA, MY MOTHER AND I_POSTER
Nevine’s childhood was dominated by her mother’s dream of a free Kurdistan. Pervine inherited this dream from her father, Ekrem Cemil Pasha, one of the founders of the modern Kurdish…

Sat 11 May 2024, 17:00