Document When The Time Comes & Banaz: A Love Story

UK Premiere

The Samburu are a semi-nomadic tribe in Kenya who continue the traditional and controversial practice of female circumcision. Gay’s film highlights the inter-generational debate taking place in their community, where girls and women- now with the support of many men- fight to change popular opinion on this discredited aspect of their cultural inheritance.

Banaz: A Love Story
Deeyah Khan / UK 2012 / 70 mins

Banaz Mahmod was a young British woman from a Kurdish background who lived in suburban London. In 2006, she was murdered and “disappeared” by her own family. A large section of the Kurdish community were complicit in the act
It was a case which shocked the entire world and received enormous international press coverage; but until now, the voice of Banaz has never been heard.

The film contains heart-breaking footage of Banaz herself, detailing the horrors she was facing and accurately predicting her own brutal murder- but showing also her warmth, beauty and courage. Through the tragedy, what emerges is a story of love…
The story of an ordinary British teenager, whose relationship with a boy called Rahmat put her life in danger- and how her own video messages from beyond the grave finally led to the convictions of her father and uncle.

Across the world, thousands of women like Banaz are victims of so-called 'honour killings' every year. Banaz: A Love Story is a stark and devastating exploration of a fatal and all too common culture clash in modern Britain.

Introduced by representatives from Amina, Rape Crisis Scotland, and Glasgow Women's Aid.
Emmy Award- Best International Current Affairs Film, Peabody Award Winner 2013

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS FILM INCLUDES GRAPHIC CONTENT WHICH MAY BE DISTRESSING TO VIEWERS.