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A coming-of-age documentary that follows the inner life of Ibrahim, a 21-year-old nursing student and young dervish in Iraqi Kurdistan, through folk …

D A Song for Love

Hogir Hirori202685 min

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

The story of Vyan, a Kurdish woman sniper during the war against ISIS in Iraq (2013–2017). A war film written and directed by Halkawt Mustafa.

F No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman

Halkawt Mustafa2026

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

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

BÎR / FILM2025

Ayê Heme Çîyê Ke NêzanaynêMir Mengi

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

​ Following an accident in the garden, a man discovers a scar on his back that he had not noticed before. The mystery of the scar leads to questio…

F Ayê Heme Çîyê Ke Nêzanaynê

Mir Mengi2025

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

Hemme'nin Öldüğü Günlerden Biri, Şanlıurfa’nın kavurucu sıcağında yevmiyesini alamayan bir mevsimlik işçinin, patronunu öldürmek için çıktığı trajiko…online

F Hemme'nin Öldüğü Günlerden Biri

Murat Fıratoğlu202483 min

Avesta, a young Yazidi woman who has escaped ISIS, comes to Brussels to make the man who enslaved her answer for it, hunting his family to force him …

F The Virgin and Child

Binevsa Berivan202480 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

When a tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh is stolen from a museum, guard Govan vows to win it back from the smugglers. A noir that moves the epic’s hero…

F Where Is Gilgamesh?

Karzan Kardozi202490 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

BÎR / FILM2023

All the Mountains GiveArash Rakhsha

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

The documentary follows kolbars carrying goods across the Iraq–Iran border. Hamid and Yaser’s stories bring the cost of mountain labour and the strug…

D All the Mountains Give

Arash Rakhsha202390 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

In Germany, 22-year-old Elaha faces expectations of virginity as her wedding approaches. She searches for a way through family loyalty and the right …

F Elaha

Milena Aboyan2023110 min

A German crew filming in eastern Turkey records Hatice, a Kurdish mother whose son was abducted twenty-six years ago, and is drawn into a conspiracy …

F In the Blind Spot

Ayşe Polat2023118 min

BÎR / FILM2022

Angels of SinjarHanna Polak

CINEMA / MEMORY / STORY↗

Hanifa, a Yazidi woman who survived ISIS’s 2014 attack on Sinjar, risks her life in ISIS-held territory to find her five younger sisters, abducted an…

D Angels of Sinjar

Hanna Polak2022106 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

The documentary combines interviews with detained ISIS members and their wives in Syrian Kurdistan with images of a landscape after war. It examines …

D Rojek

Zaynê Akyol2022127 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

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