All films

BÎR / FILM2026

SalvationEmin Alper

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In a mountain village, a land dispute flares when a rival clan banished years ago comes back, and envy and the need to prove oneself turn into violen…

F Salvation

Emin Alper2026120 min

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

When a tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh is stolen from a museum, guard Govan vows to win it back from the smugglers. A noir that moves the epic’s hero…

F Where Is Gilgamesh?

Karzan Kardozi202490 min

A German crew filming in eastern Turkey records Hatice, a Kurdish mother whose son was abducted twenty-six years ago, and is drawn into a conspiracy …

F In the Blind Spot

Ayşe Polat2023118 min

The documentary combines interviews with detained ISIS members and their wives in Syrian Kurdistan with images of a landscape after war. It examines …

D Rojek

Zaynê Akyol2022127 min

Seen through the eyes of a Kurdish boy growing up in a small Syrian border village in the early 1980s: childhood, neighbours and repression. The Swis…

F Neighbours

Mano Khalil2021124 min

In 1978, in Zalava, a mountain village in Iranian Kurdistan, villagers believe a demon walks among them. Massoud, a young gendarmerie sergeant, arres…

F Zalava

Arsalan Amiri202193 min

In 1990s Diyarbakır, little Mirza, withdrawn and haunted by nightmares since his mother died, is changed by Mir Ahmed, who comes to stay with the fam…

F Colorless Dream

Mehmet Ali Konar201778 min

BÎR / FILM2017

Blue SilenceBülent Öztürk

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

After years in a military psychiatric hospital, 42-year-old soldier Hakan returns to Istanbul with severe PTSD. Trying to reach his daughter, he look…

F Blue Silence

Bülent Öztürk201793 min

BÎR / FILM2017

MeteorsGürcan Keltek

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Combining archive footage with interviews and dreamlike scenes, the film answers the political situation in Turkey’s Kurdish region in a language bet…

D Meteors

Gürcan Keltek201784 min

Jan follows a song heard from his grandmother and encounters the past. Kazım Öz connects a personal curiosity with cultural memory and a journey.

F Zer

Kazım Öz2017

In Kobanî, freed from ISIS, 20-year-old Dilovan starts a radio station. Her broadcasts with survivors, returning refugees and musicians become the vo…

D Radio Kobanî

Reber Dosky201670 min

After moving home in Istanbul, teacher Ali and his mother Nigar search for a village and an unforgettable song. Erol Mintaş’s first feature explores …online

F Song of My Mother

Erol Mintaş2014103 min

BÎR / FILM2014

MardanBatin Ghobadi

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Mardan, a police officer haunted by a childhood memory, searches the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan for a worker missing from a remote tunnel site. Bat…

F Mardan

Batin Ghobadi2014110 min

Two friends try to make a film about Anfal. Funding, casting and family expectations place unexpected obstacles in the path of recording the past.

F Memories on Stone

Shawkat Amin Korki201493 min

The children in a primary-school class photo of screenwriter İrfan Aktan meet again some twenty-five years later at a village wedding in Yüksekova, a…

D The Children Chasing the Rainbow

Dilek Gökçin201360 min

Mehmet approaches his family’s past through tapes carrying his father’s voice. Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Doğan build a memory narrative between docume…online

F Voice of My Father

Orhan Eskiköy · Zeynel Doğan201288 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 / FILM2012

Sessiz / Bê DengRezan Yeşilbaş

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In Diyarbakır in 1984, Zeynep wants to visit her imprisoned husband. Knowing only Kurdish, which is forbidden in the prison, she must carry what she …

S Sessiz / Bê Deng

Rezan Yeşilbaş201214 min

Sumru, a music researcher, travels to Diyarbakır to trace laments for her thesis; the stories of families of the disappeared lead her to face a grief…

F Future Lasts Forever

Özcan Alper2011108 min

BÎR / FILM2011

Halabja – The Lost ChildrenAkram Hidou

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Ali, lost as a baby in the 1988 Halabja gas attack and raised by a family in Iran, returns to Halabja twenty-one years later, and five families hope …

D Halabja – The Lost Children

Akram Hidou201172 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 / FILM2010

The Flowers of KirkukFariborz Kamkari

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In late-1980s Iraq under Saddam, Najla, a medical student in Rome, returns to Kirkuk to find her Kurdish fiancé Sherko. Caught between him and an arm…

F The Flowers of Kirkuk

Fariborz Kamkari2010115 min

After their parents are killed, Gülistan and Fırat struggle to survive in Diyarbakır. The story approaches the effects of political violence through …

F Min Dît / Ben Gördüm

Miraz Bezar2009102 min