All films

BÎR / FILM2026

SalvationEmin Alper

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In a mountain village, a land dispute flares when a rival clan banished years ago comes back, and envy and the need to prove oneself turn into violen…

F Salvation

Emin Alper2026120 min

BÎR / FILM2026

Earth SongErol Mintaş

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Rojîn, a Kurdish-born anaesthesiologist who has spent almost her whole life in Helsinki, has to face years of estrangement and her own past when her …

F Earth Song

Erol Mintaş2026118 min

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

A disabled couple who want to start a family turn to adoption in the hope of offering a loving home. The short documentary won Best Kurdish Documenta…

D Rojin’s Dream

Serwa Aliveysi202434 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

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

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

Passing a university entrance exam could let Rojin escape an unwanted marriage. Her sister Shilan’s help draws them both into a network of exam cheat…

F Ezmûn / The Exam

Shawkat Amin Korki202189 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 / 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

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

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

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 / 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

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

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

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

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 / 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

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

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 / 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

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

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