KK International Film Festival 2025, Night 6
The Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival is turning 16!
This year's festival invites you to experience films that explore, provoke, and connect. Unlike mainstream blockbusters, these films are driven by ideas, not profits, and they go deeper.
The screenings offer a powerful mix of stories from 11 countries, including family tensions, cultural memory, migration, deafness, and exploding dryers.
KKIFF 2025 promises to be a festival full of imagination, reflection, and discovery.
All screenings start at the scheduled times. Please arrive at least 20 minutes before the start.
Film Line-up
Jammed
Two strangers in a laundromat find themselves drawn together after a man beats up a faulty dryer.
Name Me Lawand
Lawand is a young Kurdish boy, deaf since birth. After a treacherous journey and a year in Dunkirk refugee camp (France), the help of a deaf volunteer brings his family to Derby (England), where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language (BSL) revealing a bright, charismatic, and inquisitive boy who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself.
Organiser of this event
How to get to this event?
City Cineplex
2nd Floor, City Mall Shopping Centre, Jalan Lintas, 88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.