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The story of Vyan, a Kurdish woman sniper during the war against ISIS in Iraq (2013–2017). A war film written and directed by Halkawt Mustafa.

F No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman

Halkawt Mustafa2026

Cıvan, a young father hiding a grave illness from his son, wants to teach Feyzi to fend for himself before he dies. Set in a farming village caught b…

F When the Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow

Mehmet Ali Konar2024100 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

BÎR / FILM2023

All the Mountains GiveArash Rakhsha

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

The documentary follows kolbars carrying goods across the Iraq–Iran border. Hamid and Yaser’s stories bring the cost of mountain labour and the strug…

D All the Mountains Give

Arash Rakhsha202390 min

An Iraqi boy who loses his leg in a terrorist attack fights to keep playing the football he loves. Zakho-born director Sahim Omar Kalifa turned his 2…

F Baghdad Messi

Sahim Omar Kalifa202388 min

BÎR / FILM2022

Angels of SinjarHanna Polak

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Hanifa, a Yazidi woman who survived ISIS’s 2014 attack on Sinjar, risks her life in ISIS-held territory to find her five younger sisters, abducted an…

D Angels of Sinjar

Hanna Polak2022106 min

Ziné and Avdal love each other despite an old feud between their families, and marry once the families make peace. But Avdal, wounded at the front, f…

F Goodnight Soldier

Hiner Saleem202297 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

BÎR / FILM2022

SinjarAnna M. Bofarull

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In Barcelona, Carlota searches for her teenage son, who has vanished without trace; in Sinjar, Yazidi Hadia is forced to live as a slave with three o…

F Sinjar

Anna M. Bofarull2022127 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

BÎR / FILM2021

SabayaHogir Hirori

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

The documentary follows a group who risk their lives to rescue women held captive by ISIS in the al-Hol camp. Shot and edited by Hogir Hirori himself…

D Sabaya

Hogir Hirori202190 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

About a battalion of Kurdish women fighting ISIS to free their homeland and the French war reporter who travels with them, the film competed for the …

F Girls of the Sun

Eva Husson2018115 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

BÎR / FILM2017

The DeminerHogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Built from footage Kurdish colonel Fakhir Berwari shot himself during years of clearing mines and roadside bombs in post-Saddam Iraq, the documentary…

D The Deminer

Hogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal201783 min

Shot between July and December 2015, the documentary follows Peshmerga fighters along the roughly thousand-kilometre front line between Iraqi Kurdist…

D Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy201692 min

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

Back in Iraqi Kurdistan to film people fleeing ISIS, Hogir Hirori is about to board a helicopter for Mount Sinjar when he finds 11-year-old Souad lyi…

D The Girl Who Saved My Life

Hogir Hirori201679 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

Between documentary and fiction, the film follows two people in Iraqi Kurdistan: Nariman, a pilot trying to start a flight school for the young, and …

D A Flag Without a Country

Bahman Ghobadi201597 min

Teacher Govend and police officer Baran cross paths in a border village. Hiner Saleem connects personal freedom and local power with a western sensib…

F My Sweet Pepper Land

Hiner Saleem2013100 min