Daughters Of The Sun + Son + Q&A

14th London Kurdish Film Festival event program

The Yazidi girls were often just teenagers when they were abducted from their villages in the mountains of Kurdistan by fighters of Islamic State. They were converted to Islam by force, were sold as sex slaves for terrorists. Now that the survivors return to their homeland, the question arises if they will manage to start anew. Theatre-maker Hussein tries to help them to find a new life.

Plus fiction short SON; In a remote village in the mountains of Kurdistan, a lonely old mother is waiting for her son to return from military service. When there is no news from her son, The mother tries to find him but she discovers a secret which pushes her into a dilemma to deal with her son's new identity.