All films

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

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

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

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

BÎR / FILM2014

Sesime Gel / Were Dengê MinHüseyin Karabey

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Berfe and her granddaughter Jiyan must find a weapon to hand over in order to free the detained Temo. Having no weapon sets them on a strange search …

F Sesime Gel / Were Dengê Min

Hüseyin Karabey2014

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

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

BÎR / FILM2013

Houses with Small WindowsBülent Öztürk

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In a Kurdish village, 22-year-old Dilan pays with her life for loving a young man from the next village. A quiet, devastating short about an honour k…online

S Houses with Small Windows

Bülent Öztürk201316 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

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

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

Two brothers set out believing they can find Superman and change their lives. Karzan Kader connects children’s imaginative world with a difficult jou…

F Bekas

Karzan Kader201297 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

BÎR / FILM2011

Red HeartHalkawt Mustafa

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Secret lovers Shirin and Soran run away on the night she is forced into a marriage. When Soran is arrested, Shirin is left alone in the big city; Hal…

F Red Heart

Halkawt Mustafa201180 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 / 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

Clarisse Hahn travels with her Kurdish-born partner Oktay, whom she met in Paris, to his family’s village, and looks, often with dark humour, at how …

D Kurdish Lover

Clarisse Hahn201095 min

BÎR / FILM2010

PressSedat Yılmaz

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Young Fırat works in the Diyarbakır office of Özgür Gündem in the early 1990s. The film follows everyday work and the struggle to report under pressu…

F Press

Sedat Yılmaz2010100 min