All films

BÎR / FILM2009

Kick OffShawkat Amin Korki

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

An empty stadium in Kirkuk has become shelter for displaced families. Asu’s plan for a football tournament brings the struggle to build a shared life…

F Kick Off

Shawkat Amin Korki200981 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

BÎR / FILM2009

The Last Season: ShawaksKazım Öz

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A documentary following one season in the life of the nomadic Shawak tribe of eastern Turkey as they take their flocks to the summer pastures: herds,…

D The Last Season: Shawaks

Kazım Öz200993 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

Mam Baldar carries recorded messages between villages. An assignment to record a newborn’s voice becomes a journey through the connections that messa…

F Whisper with the Wind

Shahram Alidi2009

Arriving in Istanbul for university in the 1990s, lonely Cemal joins an anti-establishment student group; his clashes of ideas with Helin lead him to…

F The Storm

Kazım Öz2008156 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

A Turkish-speaking teacher and Kurdish-speaking pupils try to establish a shared language in one classroom. The documentary approaches language in ed…online

D İki Dil Bir Bavul / On the Way to School

Orhan Eskiköy, Özgür Doğan200881 min

On a journey from Hamburg to Stockholm, on to Turkey and the Makhmour camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, Yüksel Yavuz sets his own story of emigration beside t…

D Close-Up Kurdistan

Yüksel Yavuz2007104 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

BÎR / FILM2007

Jani GalJamil Rostami

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Adapted from Ibrahim Ahmad’s 1972 novel, the film follows Jwamer, released from prison in the Kurdistan of the 1940s and 50s, as he searches for his …

F Jani Gal

Jamil Rostami2007

Renas, a Kurdish refugee in a remote corner of northern Norway, waits for Fermesk, a bride he has never met; their first meeting at the airport disap…

F Winterland

Hisham Zaman200752 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

BÎR / FILM2005

BawkeHisham Zaman

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A father and his young son try to reach a country of refuge. Having to hide their relationship in order to remain places parental love inside a diffi…

S Bawke

Hisham Zaman200516 min

BÎR / FILM2005

FratricideYılmaz Arslan

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Two young Kurdish refugees, newly arrived in Germany, cling to each other on the city’s edge until a clash with a Turkish gang pulls them into a spir…

F Fratricide

Yılmaz Arslan200596 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

In a drought-stricken border village where people pray for rain, a young Kurdish woman, Rozhin, trying to escape an arranged marriage, runs into a st…

F Requiem of Snow

Jamil Rostami200590 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

Two teenage boys living in Germany without papers hold on to each other in the back streets of Hamburg and build a friendship. Yüksel Yavuz’s second …

F A Little Bit of Freedom

Yüksel Yavuz2003102 min

In a Yazidi Kurdish village in Armenia, widowed Hamo and Nina grow closer during cemetery visits. Their relationship develops amid financial hardship…

F Vodka Lemon

Hiner Saleem200390 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

An orphaned Kurdish girl and a lonely Turkish pensioner are thrown together by circumstance. The film, about the bond that slowly grows between two s…

F Big Man, Little Love

Handan İpekçi2001120 min