Spring, 1991.

In the wake of the First Gulf War, Saddam Hussein’s forces crush the Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq and two million civilians flee into the freezing mountains. As the crisis unfolds unprecedentedly on television screens around the world, a small group inside Whitehall tries to shift policy before the window closes.

Set between the Kurdish mountains and the Whitehall offices, Safe Haven follows two diplomats and a Kurdish refugee, pushing the British government to act and prevent another genocide. 

Written by Chris Bowers, former British diplomat in Iraqi-Kurdistan, Safe Haven is based on real events and explores how moral conviction and diplomatic pressure contributed to Operation Safe Haven, asking what responsibility governments bear when catastrophe is unfolding in plain sight. 

Safe Haven is presented here in a new production, directed by Yad Deen.