All films

BÎR / FILM2026

WhiteNavroz Shaban

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

In a small Kurdish village a primary school teacher sometimes turns the classroom into a cinema with a large white sheet, and when the adults take it…

S White

Navroz Shaban2026

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

Mona arrives in Berlin with her Kurdish family from Syria. At her new school, football offers a language before German, but joining the girls’ team m…

F Winners / Sieger sein

Soleen Yusef2024119 min

At a centre for unaccompanied minors in northern Norway, three teenagers who will be sent back when they turn eighteen plan to escape over the mounta…

F A Happy Day

Hisham Zaman2023113 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

Yogurt seller Hüseyin and his daughter Zelal meet the lost Hemudê in Kobanê. A day on a motorbike follows the city’s everyday life and the space chil…

F When the Seedlings Grow

Rêger Azad Kaya202283 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

BÎR / FILM2021

IdoSaman Mustefa

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

A Yazidi teenager in a refugee camp sells sheep’s milk to help his family; when his Yazidi customer stops buying, he has to sell to Muslim neighbours…

S Ido

Saman Mustefa202113 min

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

In 1990s Diyarbakır, little Mirza, withdrawn and haunted by nightmares since his mother died, is changed by Mir Ahmed, who comes to stay with the fam…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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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