All films

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

Trying to help his sick friend at boarding school, Yusuf is caught between adults’ rules and decisions. Ferit Karahan builds tension around responsib…

F Brother’s Keeper

Ferit Karahan202185 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

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

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

BÎR / FILM2019

MomêRodi Güven Yalçınkaya

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Arjin and her friend Sidar take in a missing Kurdish woman and come under intelligence surveillance; an agent’s lip-reading mistake ties them to a pl…

F Momê

Rodi Güven Yalçınkaya201998 min

Osman understands Kurdish but cannot speak it, and speaks Turkish but cannot understand it. The mismatch turns daily communication into absurd encoun…

F Di Navberê De / Arada

Ali Kemal Çınar201865 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

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

A young man with a limited superpower searches for its use in ordinary life. Ali Kemal Çınar brings the idea of heroism down to everyday details.

F Gênco

Ali Kemal Çınar2017

In 1990s Diyarbakır, little Mirza, withdrawn and haunted by nightmares since his mother died, is changed by Mir Ahmed, who comes to stay with the fam…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

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

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

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

Zaynê Akyol’s documentary approaches the everyday lives, conversations and shared time of Kurdish women fighters, placing public struggle alongside p…

D Gulîstan, Land of Roses

Zaynê Akyol201686 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

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

Dwarf brothers Alan and Shirwan set off from their Kurdish town for Spain, carrying handmade shoes for Ronaldo to win over the Real Madrid-mad father…

F El Clásico

Halkawt Mustafa201595 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