All films

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

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

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

Istanbul actor Ayça sets out to reach her lover Hama Ali, a Kurdish actor in Iraq. In 2003, war and borders turn a relationship sustained by video me…online

F Gitmek / My Marlon and Brando

Hüseyin Karabey200892 min

Hiner Saleem takes a satirical look at a Kurdish region divided by the borders of three countries. Travel and border experiences frame life in a frag…

F Dol

Hiner Saleem200790 min

Two Kurdish soldiers transporting food in Iraq in 2003 find a child separated from his family. His name, Saddam, turns the question of protecting him…

F Crossing the Dust

Shawkat Amin Korki200673 min

Ageing musician Mamo sets out with his sons to perform in Iraqi Kurdistan. The search for a woman’s voice shapes a journey interrupted by borders and…

F Half Moon / Niwemang

Bahman Ghobadi2006107 min

A documentary on the Anfal campaign waged by Saddam Hussein’s regime against the Kurds from 1988 to 1991, in which some 182,000 people were killed, t…

D Al-Anfal

Mano Khalil200553 min

Military service and a road assignment in Iraq place two people of different identities in the same vehicle. Hiner Saleem explores war, belonging and…

F Kilomètre Zéro

Hiner Saleem200591 min

As war approaches, children and adults in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan live with uncertainty. Bahman Ghobadi tells of war entering everyday life thro…

F Turtles Can Fly

Bahman Ghobadi200495 min

After the Gulf War, the famous Kurdish musician Mirza hears from his ex-wife Hanareh, who left him years ago for Iraqi Kurdistan, and persuades his m…

F Marooned in Iraq

Bahman Ghobadi2002100 min

BÎR / FILM2001

The PhotographKazım Öz

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Two young men become friends on a long bus journey, each unaware that he is heading for the opposite side of the conflict. Their meeting months later…

F The Photograph

Kazım Öz200166 min

Diyar, a Kurdish-American, returns to his hometown of Halabja five years after the chemical attack to build an orphanage and meets Jiyan and Şêrko, t…

F Jiyan

Jano Rosebiani2001102 min

After the chemical attack on Halabja, teachers carrying blackboards on their backs roam the mountain villages of the Iran–Iraq border looking for pup…

F Blackboards

Samira Makhmalbaf200088 min

A family’s struggle for survival near the Iran–Iraq border is told through the responsibilities children carry. A powerful entrance into Bahman Ghoba…

F A Time for Drunken Horses

Bahman Ghobadi2000

BÎR / FILM1999

Life in FogBahman Ghobadi

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A fourteen-year-old boy who has lost his parents leaves school and smuggles goods across the Iran–Iraq border to look after his siblings. Bahman Ghob…

D Life in Fog

Bahman Ghobadi199928 min