All films

BÎR / FILM2026

Earth SongErol Mintaş

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Rojîn, a Kurdish-born anaesthesiologist who has spent almost her whole life in Helsinki, has to face years of estrangement and her own past when her …

F Earth Song

Erol Mintaş2026118 min

Avesta, a young Yazidi woman who has escaped ISIS, comes to Brussels to make the man who enslaved her answer for it, hunting his family to force him …

F The Virgin and Child

Binevsa Berivan202480 min

Mona arrives in Berlin with her Kurdish family from Syria. At her new school, football offers a language before German, but joining the girls’ team m…

F Winners / Sieger sein

Soleen Yusef2024119 min

At a centre for unaccompanied minors in northern Norway, three teenagers who will be sent back when they turn eighteen plan to escape over the mounta…

F A Happy Day

Hisham Zaman2023113 min

In Germany, 22-year-old Elaha faces expectations of virginity as her wedding approaches. She searches for a way through family loyalty and the right …

F Elaha

Milena Aboyan2023110 min

BÎR / FILM2021

IdoSaman Mustefa

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A Yazidi teenager in a refugee camp sells sheep’s milk to help his family; when his Yazidi customer stops buying, he has to sell to Muslim neighbours…

S Ido

Saman Mustefa202113 min

Andriy, son of a Kurdish family that fled the war in Syria for Ukraine, delivers aid in the war in Ukraine as a Red Cross volunteer while trying to b…

D This Rain Will Never Stop

Alina Gorlova2020104 min

Most of the men of Xalko, the Kurdish village where Sami Mermer was born, have left as refugees; the women who remain keep daily life and tradition g…

D Xalko

Sami Mermer, Hind Benchekroun2018100 min

After accusations in her village, Havin leaves for Belgium with her daughter. When shepherd Zagros follows his wife, he finds himself caught between …

F Zagros

Sahim Omar Kalifa2017102 min

BÎR / FILM2016

House Without a RoofSoleen Yusef

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Three siblings raised in Germany return to Iraqi Kurdistan to bury their mother beside their father. The journey brings their estrangement and shared…

F House Without a Roof

Soleen Yusef2016117 min

Mira, a young Swiss woman in search of her roots, travels to Iraqi Kurdistan, where she meets the reckonings left by war, street justice and an unexp…

F The Swallow

Mano Khalil2016102 min

BÎR / FILM2015

Life on the BorderKobanî ve Şengal kamplarından sekiz çocuk

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Eight children who fled ISIS to the refugee camps of Kobanî and Sinjar spend seven months learning camera and storytelling, then film their own lives…online

D Life on the Border

Kobanî ve Şengal kamplarından sekiz çocuk201573 min

BÎR / FILM2015

The Longest RunMarianna Economou

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Jasim and Alsaleh, two under-age Kurdish refugees held in a Greek juvenile prison on smuggling charges: their friendship, their phone calls to famili…

D The Longest Run

Marianna Economou201555 min

Five people from a refugee centre are allowed a day in Oslo. Their stories are tied together by a letter that 83-year-old Mirza wants to hand to the …

F Letter to the King

Hisham Zaman201475 min

Siyar follows his runaway sister across Europe under the weight of family honour. Meeting Evin leads him to question both his mission and what he has…

F Before Snowfall

Hisham Zaman2013

Ibrahim Gezer, a Kurdish beekeeper who lost his wife, two of his children and more than five hundred hives in the conflict in Turkey, starts keeping …

D The Beekeeper

Mano Khalil2013107 min

Imprisoned with his wife Mina during the Iranian revolution, the Kurdish poet Sahel is released thirty years later and searches Istanbul for Mina, wh…online

F Rhino Season

Bahman Ghobadi201292 min

BÎR / FILM2011

If You Die, I’ll Kill YouHiner Saleem

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Fresh out of prison in Paris, Philippe befriends Avdal, a Kurd hunting an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal’s sudden death brings his fiancée Siba and his de…

F If You Die, I’ll Kill You

Hiner Saleem201190 min

Elderly Şeristan, living on the edge of Istanbul, asks her son Mirza to take her home and bury her there. Mirza boards a train to Batman, which the f…

F The Trace

Tayfur Aydın2011

BÎR / FILM2009

The Last Season: ShawaksKazım Öz

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A documentary following one season in the life of the nomadic Shawak tribe of eastern Turkey as they take their flocks to the summer pastures: herds,…

D The Last Season: Shawaks

Kazım Öz200993 min

A young Kurdish migrant stuck in Calais decides to swim the Channel to reach the girl he loves in England, and the lonely French coach who teaches hi…

F Welcome

Philippe Lioret2009110 min

On a journey from Hamburg to Stockholm, on to Turkey and the Makhmour camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, Yüksel Yavuz sets his own story of emigration beside t…

D Close-Up Kurdistan

Yüksel Yavuz2007104 min

Renas, a Kurdish refugee in a remote corner of northern Norway, waits for Fermesk, a bride he has never met; their first meeting at the airport disap…

F Winterland

Hisham Zaman200752 min

BÎR / FILM2005

BawkeHisham Zaman

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A father and his young son try to reach a country of refuge. Having to hide their relationship in order to remain places parental love inside a diffi…

S Bawke

Hisham Zaman200516 min