“Barzan,” a controversial feature-length documentary about terrorism, immigration and the human cost of national security, will have its local premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival.

The film tells the story of former Kirkland resident Sam “Barzan” Malkandi, an Iraqi refugee who was working toward his piece of the American Dream in Kirkland when a footnote in “The 9/11 Commission Report,” connecting him to a high-level AlQaeda operative, shocked his suburban community.

Director Alex Stonehill and writer/producer Sarah Stuteville, founders of local-global news publication The Seattle Globalist, traveled to Iraq in 2010 to interview Malkandi, and then returned to Seattle to pursue the shadowy details of his five-year journey through the immigration court system.

“Barzan” screens at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 2 at the Kirkland Performance Center.

Programmers at the True/False Film Festival called the film “… a Kafka-esque view of the bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security, the terrifying spectre of kangaroo courts outside the U.S. Judiciary, and the human wreckage left in its wake.”

“Barzan” was funded through Kickstarter, and features organic animated sequences by local artist Tess Martin.

For more information about the film, visit www.barzanthemovie.com. For ticket information, contact the Kirkland Performance Center at (425) 828-0422.