title: Life in Fog

overview: Nezhad is fourteen years old and both of his parents have passed away. He is forced to leave school and take care of the family. To earn a living, he decides to smuggle goods across the Iranian-Iraqi border with his mule. One day, however, the mule breaks a leg.

title: زندگی در مه

overview: Nezhad tiene catorce años y sus padres han fallecido. Se ve obligado a dejar la escuela y hacerse cargo de la familia. Para ganarse la vida, decide pasar mercancías de contrabando a través de la frontera irano-iraquí con su mula. Un día, sin embargo, la mula se rompe una pata.

title: Life in Fog

character: Self

original_title: زندگی در مه

title: Vivre dans le brouillard

country: FR

title: Life in Fog

title: Liv i dimman

country: SE

title: Zendegi dar meh

title: ژیان لەناو تەمدا

title: Vita nella nebbia

country: IT


title: Suitcase

type: Backdrop

status: Released

overview: Far from his own homeland, a Kurdish refugee lives in his suitcase. In it he carries memories of his family. When someone steals the suitcase in the tumult of the foreign city center, he loses his home a second time

title: Suitcase

title: چمدان

overview: Ver van zijn eigen thuisland woont een Koerdische vluchteling in zijn koffer. Daarin draagt hij herinneringen aan zijn familie met zich mee. Wanneer iemand in het tumult van de buitenlandse binnenstad de koffer steelt, raakt hij voor de tweede keer zijn huis kwijt

character: Kurdish Man

type: Cast

character: Little Girl

character: The Wife

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Screenplay

department: Writing

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Music

department: Sound

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

original_title: چمدان

original_language: ku


title: The Suitcase

overview: The story of her grandmother’s old suitcase moves Hazal to understand her kurdish families past and carry on the legacy.

title: The Suitcase

title: WALIZ

overview: Korte film: Het verhaal van de oude koffer van haar grootmoeder zet Hazal ertoe aan om het verleden van haar Koerdische families te begrijpen en de erfenis voort te zetten

job: Writer

original_title: WALIZ

title: Mother Love

country: CA


title: Monologue

type: Poster

monolog

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi border. When he was murdered in the 2011 Robozik (Roboski) Massacre, the responsibility of family's welfare was taken over by his younger brother Sinan, who lost his life in an unfortunate accident. This is the story of their grief-stricken mother Heyam and her resilience. Alongside Heyam's struggle, the film brings the voices of Robozik elders and notables to the forefront, who have experienced first-hand the social, political and economic dimensions of smuggling, which has been the backbone of survival for the locals for many generations.

title: Monologue

job: Colorist

department: Editing

job: Sound

job: Editor

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Co-Producer

job: Executive Producer

original_title: Monologue


title: Denge Radyoya Rewanê Li Ku Ye?

title: Erivan Radyosunun Sesi Nerede?

overview: Belgeselde Erivan Radyosu’nu dinlemiş kuşağın sesine kulak verilmektedir. Geçmişte bir radyonun etrafında büyüyen o zamanın çocukları, şimdilerin yaşlı kesimi anılarına uzanıyor. Erivan Radyosu’nun yayına başladığı yıllarda, yayını dinleyenlerin anıları arasında yankılanan sesler duyulmakta. O günlere dair gülümseten anılarla birlikte, insanları bir arada tutan ve onlar gibi konuşan radyonun önemi anlatılmaktadır.

job: Graphic Designer

department: Art

original_title: Denge Radyoya Rewanê Li Ku Ye?


title: Tearing Walls Down

overview: Peoples' Democratic Party(HDP), which had been founded under the leadership and with initiation of the Kurdish political movement, entered the parliament with a landslide election victory. HDP won many city and district municipalities in Kurdistan and has become a great hope for communities and peoples of Turkey. After the peace process came to an end, many lawsuits were filed against HDP and its MPs within the framework of a lawsuit for closing and banning HDP. Hundreds of politicians were arrested and sent to prison, including Figen Yuksekdag, the former co-chair of HDP, Gultan Kisanak, the co-mayor of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality, and Aysel Tugluk, HDP MP. Furthermore, many were forced to go abroad and started to live in exile. Aysel Tugluk got dementia while she was in prison and it was only after the protests that she was released. In this documentary, the first-degree relatives of Figen, Gultan and Aysel tell the process of going to and coming from the prison.

title: Tearing Walls Down

title: Yıkılacak Duvarlar

overview: De Democratische Volkspartij (HDP), die was opgericht onder leiding en met het begin van de Koerdische politieke beweging, kwam het parlement binnen met een verpletterende verkiezingsoverwinning. HDP won vele stads- en districtsgemeenten in Koerdistan en is een grote hoop geworden voor gemeenschappen en volkeren van Turkije. Nadat het vredesproces tot een einde was gekomen, werden veel rechtszaken aangespannen tegen HDP en haar parlementsleden in het kader van een rechtszaak voor het sluiten en verbieden van HDP. Honderden politici werden gearresteerd en naar de gevangenis gestuurd, waaronder Figen Yuksekdag, de voormalige covoorzitter van de HDP, Gultan Kisanak, de co-burgemeester van de Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality, en Aysel Tugluk, HDP-parlementslid. Bovendien werden velen gedwongen naar het buitenland te gaan en gingen ze in ballingschap leven. Aysel Tugluk kreeg dementie terwijl ze in de gevangenis zat en pas na de protesten werd ze vrijgelaten.

job: Production Manager

job: Camera Department Manager

job: Script Editor

original_title: Yıkılacak Duvarlar


title: Gola Cinan

overview: Simko, Bishkok and Taco are ten years old and the most mischievous children in the village. One day, they go to a mulberry tree down in the village. Taco starts to tell the story of a small lake a little further down the creek; he tells them that in his time that lake was the home of Djinns and Fairies who kidnapped Ihsan the Mad and held him captive there.  Simko thoughtfully goes home and asks his grandmother about this story. His grandmother tells the rest of the story and Simko falls asleep... That night, he dreams of Ihsan the Mad and asks her to save him. When he wakes up in the morning, he goes straight to Bishkok and Taco's house and tells them what he saw in his dream... The three friends set out to rescue Ihsan the Mad.

title: Gola Cinan

character: Simko

character: Bişkok

character: Tajo

character: Pîrê

character: Cin

character: Êhsanê din

character: Dayik

character: Keça yekemin

character: Keça duyemin

original_title: Gola Cinan


title: Refugee Poetry

overview: The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.

title: Refugee Poetry

title: Helbestan Penaberan

overview: De Koerdische Iraakse dichter en acteur Zeravan Khalil reist met zijn hond door een Alpenkloof nadat hij is gevlucht voor de IS-oorlog en genocide. Terwijl hij zich de gruwel herinnert, schrijft hij een gedicht met de titel “Je maakt me gek” in het Kurmanji Koerdisch. In zijn thuisland is het de Jezidische Koerden verboden om in zijn beroep te werken. Dan eet hij zijn appel en dwaalt met meer hoop door het midden van Europa.

character: Poet

job: Location Scout

job: Post Production Technical Engineer

job: Sound Mixer

job: Animal Wrangler

job: Musician

job: Camera Operator

job: Sound Designer

job: Original Music Composer

job: Poem

original_title: Helbestan Penaberan

production_countries: AT DE


title: When the Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow

Official Teaser

type: Teaser

overview: In southeastern Turkey, Kurds who want to live their lives in peace are squeezed between the harassment of Turkish military patrols and the demands of the PKK guerrillas, all while land and pasture are scarce. Ciwan is the village chief, a righteous and humble family man. Day in and day out, he rushes through his village duties and tending to his livestock. Two steps behind him is his 14-year-old son Feyzi, wondering why he has to learn everything right now. What he doesn't know is that his father is seriously ill and time is running out.

title: When the Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow

title: Demo ke pelê gozan benî zer

overview: In het zuidoosten van Turkije zitten Koerden die hun leven in vrede willen leiden, klem tussen de intimidatie van Turkse militaire patrouilles en de eisen van de PKK-guerrillastrijders, terwijl land en weiland schaars zijn. Ciwan is het dorpshoofd, een rechtvaardige en bescheiden familieman. Dag in dag uit haast hij zich door zijn dorps taken en het verzorgen van zijn vee. Twee stappen achter hem staat zijn 14-jarige zoon Feyzi, die zich afvraagt waarom hij nu alles moet leren. Wat hij niet weet, is dat zijn vader ernstig ziek is en dat de tijd dringt.

title: When the Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow

overview: En el sureste de Turquía, los kurdos que quieren vivir sus vidas en paz se ven atrapados entre el acoso de las patrullas militares turcas y las demandas de las guerrillas del PKK, mientras la tierra y los pastos son escasos. Ciwan es el jefe de la aldea, un hombre de familia honrado y humilde. Día tras día, se apresura a cumplir con sus deberes en la aldea y cuida de su ganado. Dos pasos detrás de él está su hijo Feyzi, de 14 años, preguntándose por qué tiene que aprender todo ahora mismo. Lo que no sabe es que su padre está gravemente enfermo y el tiempo se le acaba. (Imagineindia)

character: Mukhtar

character: Feyzi

character: Dersim

character: Mukhtar's Wife

character: Old Aunt

character: City Soilder

job: Director

job: Writer

job: Editor

original_title: Demo ke pelê gozan benî zer

title: Ceviz Yaprakları Sarardığında

country: TR

title: کاتێک گەڵا گوێزەکان زەرد بوون

country: IQ


title: Grief

key: DFaYAKgWAqA

name: HALWEST & RENAS WRYA - KAMARANI - SHIN FILM -2024

type: Clip

overview: Story of a Kurdish family who struggle with many problems and hardships in life, but they do not give up and continue to seek happiness and try to fight their misery.

title: Grief

character: Sarkash

character: Shirin

character: Sakar

character: Hawraz

character: Farhad

character: Khanda

character: Omar (Sarkash's Father)

character: Vare

character: Hakar

job: Sound Recordist

job: Boom Operator

job: Continuity

job: Makeup Department Head

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Clapper Loader

job: Producer

job: Makeup Artist

job: Assistant Art Director

job: Costume Designer

job: Second Assistant Director

job: Director of Photography

job: Colorist

job: First Assistant Director

job: Music

job: Digital Producer

job: Production Designer

title: Shin Film

title: فیلمی شین


title: Goat

overview: Hevidar is under compulsory education in a language different than her mother tongue. Hevidar has a homework to do.

title: Goat

character: Hevidar

job: Director

job: Writer

job: Cinematography

job: Editor

original_title: Bızın

title: Keçi


title: Spiralis

overview: A computer programmer who uses his mind palace as a hard drive, loses the most important data in there. He should find it.

title: Spiralis

title: Spiralis

overview: Een computerprogrammeur die zijn geestespaleis als harde schijf gebruikt, raakt de belangrijkste gegevens daarop kwijt. Hij zou het moeten vinden.

character: Mad

character: Girl

character: Man of Corp

original_title: Spiralis


title: Son

overview: In a small village outside Sanandaj, 60-year-old Maryam is waiting for her son Farhad's return from military service. One day, Farhad turns up at her door, wearing a chador, and tells her that he is now living as a woman.

title: Son

title: Son

overview: En un pueblo del Kurdistán, una madre mayor espera el regreso de su hijo del servicio militar. Tras una larga ausencia, la madre intenta encontrarlo, pero descubre un secreto que la enfrenta a un dilema sobre la identidad de su hijo. (Endimaris)

original_title: Son


title: Hêza (Strength)

overview: Hêza had never in her wildest dream thought that one day she would be commanding hundreds of men and women fighters in a battle against the worlds most dangerous jihadist terror organisation (ISIS) and defeat them.  This documentary is about a Yazidi woman who had been enslaved during the attack of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Shengal (Sinjar) which started on 3 August 2014. It tells what she’d lived through in the hands of ISIS, how she managed to escape, and how she carried on with her life after her escape.

title: Hêza (Strength)

title: Hêza

overview: Der Dokumentarfilm beleuchtet die Geschichte der Ezidin Suad Murad Xelef (Hêza), die 2014 zusammen mit 25 Mitgliedern ihrer Familie vom IS verschleppt wurde. Ihr gelingt die Flucht und tritt der YJŞ, der Fraueneinheiten Şengals, bei. Als Kommandantin ist sie an der Befreiung der Hauptstadt des selbsternannten IS-Kalifats Raqqa beteiligt.

character: Self

original_title: Hêza


title: The Apple

name: Sêv / Elma / The Apple | Trailer | #35tfm

overview: Zerya is a woman in her 50s living in Paris. She had to leave the country for 22 years because of the chemical gas that Saddam Hussein dropped on the city of Halabja on March 16, 1988. She has lived in France for 30 years. While visiting an art exhibition in Paris, Zerya sees Magritte's painting "This is not an apple". This painting has a traumatic meaning for Zerya.

title: Elma

overview: Saddam Hüseyin’in kullandığı kimyasal silahlar sonucu köyünü terk etmek zorunda kalan Zerya, 30 yıl sonra Fransa’da René Magritte’in bir resmini görür ve geçmişini hatırlar.

title: The Apple

character: Zerya (elder)

character: Zerya (young)

job: Songs

job: Production Design

job: Sound Designer

job: Sound

original_title: Elma

title: The Apple

country: US

title: سێو

title: SÊV


title: Nature Speaks

overview: In the face of an ultimate decision, nature intervenes.

title: Nature Speaks

job: Producer

original_title: Nature Speaks

production_countries: IR IQ


title: According to the Constitution

overview: Warya is a bookseller in the city who cannot arrange a wedding party for his fiancé due to his poverty situation. One day his friend reads him a text of the country's constitution, which changes his life.

title: According to the Constitution

character: Wrya

character: Hawre

character: Dilxwaz

original_title: بەپێی دەستوور


title: The Painter's Room

overview: Artin, a young Iranian bodybuilder, and Jahan, a Kurdish man who recently discovered his love for painting, live in Kærshovedgård, a former prison now used as a deportation center.

title: The Painter's Room

overview: Artin, un jove culturista iranià, i Jahan, un kurd que recentment va descobrir el seu amor per la pintura, viuen a Kærshovedgård, una antiga presó utilitzada ara com a centre de deportació.

title: The Painter's Room

overview: En medio de la idílica Dinamarca se encuentra Kærshovedgård, una antigua prisión que ahora se utiliza como centro de deportación. Entre los residentes se encuentran Artin, un joven culturista iraní, y Jahan, un hombre kurdo que recientemente ha descubierto su pasión por la pintura. En una situación hostil y desoladora, Artin y Jahan buscan maneras de traer esperanza a sus vidas y a las personas que los rodean.

title: The Painter's Room

title: The Painter's Room

overview: In een deportatiecentrum midden in het idyllische Denemarken zoeken Artin en Jahan naar manieren om hoop te brengen in hun leven en in de mensen om hen heen.

job: Sound Recordist

job: Assistant Editor

job: Trainee Production Coordinator

original_title: The Painter's Room

production_countries: DK ES


title: گەڕەکی داهۆڵان

overview: After the black crows attack his land, a rich landowner gathers the village children and turns them into Scarecrows

title: گەڕەکی داهۆڵان

job: Screenplay

job: Director of Photography

original_title: گەڕەکی داهۆڵان


title: Going

overview: A young family is about to cross the border from Iran to another country. They have a long and tiring way ahead of them, and the young children must silently and obediently accompany their parents, without having much say in the matter.

title: Going

job: Assistant Director

job: Casting

job: Set Photographer

original_title: ڕۆیشتن

title: رفتن

country: IR


title: Time To Live

overview: Halime is nursing her elderly father who is spending the last days of his life and taking care of their cow that is about to give birth, will her father who is waiting for the cow to give birth see the calf?

title: Time To Live

job: Director

job: Executive Producer

original_title: بەکاتی ژیان


key: YCxO-TRBbKQ

name: Stranên Kezîya Sor - Jin , Jiyan , Azadî

overview: The Songs of Red Braids: Woman, life, freedom. The woman brought wheat from the field and was the master of finding opportunities in life.

job: Music

job: Set Decoration

job: Camera Operator

job: Music Coordinator

job: Costume Designer

job: Music Arranger

job: Costume Coordinator

job: Lighting Manager

department: Lighting

job: Mix Technician

title: گۆرانییەکانی پرچسوور - ژن، ژیان، ئازادی


title: The Witching Hour

overview: It’s midnight and Jiyar is driving in the local route of the Sawmill factory where he works when his wife wants him to come home in a video call because she's afraid of wolves howling outside and can't make it through nights alone. But if Jiyar got back he'd his job loose…

title: The Witching Hour

job: Editor

job: Color Grading

job: Production Manager

job: Set Designer

job: Producer

job: Writer

job: VFX Artist

department: Visual Effects

job: Sound

job: Special Effects

job: Sound Recordist

original_title: کاتژمێر سفر


title: Fingerprint

overview: Zara is a working Kurdish woman, who lost both her national ID card and birth certificate. She goes to a civil registry office to get them again because she needs them for an employment application, but the staff tells her that she has lost her fingerprints and needs to give her hands a break for a couple of weeks. Her employment application has a strict deadline and she can’t wait that long. That’s when she tries to find a different solution.

title: Fingerprint

job: Director

job: Executive Producer

job: Cinematography

original_title: شوێنپەنجە

title: Şiwênpence


title: A Portrait of Sufyan

overview: A Portrait of Sufyan is a five-episode documentary about the life and art of Kurdish artist Sufyan Jalal. especially about the Tasan Artwork Project. the film took 4 years to shoot.

title: A Portrait of Sufyan

job: Director of Photography

original_title: پۆرترەیتێکی سوفیان


title: How Many Days Will It Last

overview: Baran, who works as a courier with his motorcycle in a restaurant, lives in a rental house with his  wife Zeynep. The house they live in has been included in the scope of urban regeneration and the  couple is on the eve of moving to a new house. However, Baran's motorcycle gets stolen and for this  reason, he loses his job. All of Baran's plans start to get interrupted.

title: How Many Days Will It Last

title: Ewê Çend Roj Be

title: Ewê Çend Roj Be

overview: Baran, die met zijn motor als koerier in een restaurant werkt, woont samen met zijn vrouw Zeynep in een huurhuis. Het huis waarin ze wonen valt onder de stadsvernieuwing en het echtpaar staat aan de vooravond van een verhuizing naar een nieuw huis. De motorfiets van Baran wordt echter gestolen en om deze reden verliest hij zijn baan. Alle plannen van Baran worden onderbroken.

character: Baran

character: Zeynep

job: Art Direction

job: Sound Designer

job: Colorist

job: Music Producer

job: Costume Design

job: Production Design

job: Gaffer

original_title: Ewê Çend Roj Be

title: Kaç Gün Sürecek


title: Red Pages

overview: The Story of Nûjiyan Erhan.

title: Red Pages

job: Editor

original_title: Rûpelên Sor

title: Red Page

title: Rûpela Sor

country: SY


title: The Capsule

overview: Two brothers... They are trying to make money by collecting gas bomb capsules that the police use against the demonstrators in demonstrations.

title: The Capsule

job: Writer

job: Assistant Director

job: Music

job: Lighting Director

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Assistant Camera

original_title: Qapsûl


title: Yarê

overview: A Kurdish girl is looking for water after her village has been cut off from supply.

title: Yarê

job: Director

job: Screenplay

original_title: Yarê


title: Rojbash

overview: Rojbash is the story of a group of Kurdish actors, coming together to restage a play from 25 years ago. Their journey straddles between the play, their dreams and the reality. For Kemal who dedicated his life to Kurdish theatre, political conditions of Kurdish language today, is worse than 25 years ago.  In response, he decides to call his actor friends scattered around the world, to restage their old play Rojbash. Intertwining daily life with rehearsals and lines from the play, their clamorous days begin.

title: Rojbash

title: Rojbash

overview: Rojbash, 25 yıl önce sahneledikleri oyunu bir kez daha sahnelemek üzere bir araya gelen Kürt tiyatrocuların oyun, hayaller ve gerçek arasında gidip gelen hikayesidir. Yıllarını Kürtçe tiyatroya adamış olan Kemal’e göre bugün, 25 yıl sonra, Kürtçenin durumu o yasaklı günlere geri dönmüştür. Buna karşı bir tavır olarak, eski oyunları Rojbaş’ı yeniden sahnelemek amacıyla, her biri dünyanın başka bir köşesine dağılmış olan eski ekip arkadaşlarını İstanbul’da bir araya getirir. Böylece provalarla gündelik ilişkilerinin iç içe geçtiği, sıkça oyundan repliklere başvurdukları şamatalı günler başlar.

character: herself

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound Technical Supervisor

job: Script Consultant

job: Producer

job: Color Designer

job: Production Manager

original_title: Rojbash


title: Love in the Face of Genocide

overview: The Ezidîs (Yazidis) in Kurdistan have been the victims of massacres numerous times. This documentary follows their bards, the dengbêj, and examines how their songs tell stories of love and genocide.

title: Love in the Face of Genocide

character: self

original_title: Evîn di ruyê qirkirinê de


title: Dream

overview: Dreams are the only way for a Kurdish mother from Kobane to meet her martyr son during many years

title: Dream

character: Egîd

character: Yadê

character: Xalo

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Xewn


title: Morî

overview: The only memory Morî has of her father is the audio recording of a story he told her. Morî listens to this story from time to time. One day, a new teacher comes to school. When Morî sees the teacher, she thinks he is her father. Morî's persistence on this point eventually leads to an emotional bond between her teacher and her.

title: Morî

title: Morî

character: Meriç

character: Müdür

character: Mori

job: Associate Producer

job: Original Music Composer

job: Art Direction

job: Sound

job: Translator

original_title: Morî


title: Dema Jin Hezbike

overview: Dema jin hes bike (When a woman loves) by Jînda Baran is one of the early examples of Kurdish guerilla cinema.

title: Dema Jin Hezbike

character: Kûlîlk

character: Engizek

character: Reha

character: Beritan

character: Zîlan

character: Rojbîn

character: Doktor

character: Serleşker

character: Kurye

job: Writer

original_title: Dema Jin Hezbike

title: Dema Jin Hes Bike


title: Star on the Border

key: wmukAPZUFoA

name: Stêrka Li Ser Xetê | Sınırdaki Yıldız | Star on the Border - Teaser

overview: The settlement called “Dirbesiyê”, at the border point of Mardin, had to change and transform under the influence of military-political developments. One of the most ironic examples of this is that in 1993, the star symbol on the railings of windows of the houses was deemed objectionable on the ground that it was a political symbol, and the village was raided by military forces to remove it from the windows.

title: Star on the Border

job: Editor

original_title: Stêrka Li Ser Xetê


title: Sare – Life in exile

overview: In Turkey, Ankara, a politically active family from Iran is being deported after 10 years. The story is told through their 7 year old daughter, Sare, while she herself has struggles of her own.

title: Sare – Life in exile

character: Herself

character: Himself

original_title: Sare – Life in exile

production_countries: NO TR


title: Liberation

overview: But when a woman accidentally enters her, the girl's suicide remains incomplete

title: Liberation

character: Key Cast

original_title: Liberation


title: Habibullah

overview: Kurdish folk singer Habibullah Zandi has been performing all his life. Whether at weddings or around the campfire, he shares his voice to bring others happiness. When a video of him goes viral on TikTok the young village mullah confronts him about the sins of singing. Tensions rise, but so does his defiance. For Habibullah, the Islamic faith and his singing are not at odds. This film mirrors its protagonist – it is quietly self-assured, joyful and with a deep love for the beauty of this world.

title: Habibullah

original_title: Habibullah


title: A Beautiful Day

overview: The end of a war is never an end. A mother's private diary takes us on a poetic journey through the lives of the many children who have fled the ISIS war and whom the world has forgotten.

title: A Beautiful Day

original_title: A Beautiful Day


title: Evdalê Zeynikê

Şanoya Evdalê Zeynikê

type: Featurette

overview: A filmed version of the theater play about the famous Kurdish poet Evdalê Zeynikê.

title: Evdalê Zeynikê

character: Evdalê Zeynikê

character: Gulê

character: Tahir Xan

character: Şêx Silê

character: Qasim

character: Quling

character: Eyşe

original_title: Evdalê Zeynikê


title: In the Name of the Profit: Liberated Syrian Town Reveals ISIS Oil Trade Secrets

overview: Islamic State oil trade documents, testimonies of local civilians and captured ISIS militants: RT Documentary crew visits Syrian oil town of Shaddadi just 10 days after it was liberated from ISIS. Exclusive results of RT Doc investigation.


title: Meris Kanispol

overview: Growing up with his stepparents in Greece, a young man of 20 murders a vagrant, who unbeknownst to him is his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works at the prison. Neither of them know that she is his biological mother. 20 years later, living with his daughter in Berlin, he gradually loses his sight.

title: Meris Kanispol

job: Music

original_title: Meris Kanispol

production_countries: DE IQ


title: Us in whom

overview: Short film directed by Yara Khalil about her Kurdish roots.

title: Us in whom

job: Director

original_title: Kine Em?

title: Wir und ich

country: DE


title: Bloom of Old Trees

name: Bloom of Old Trees (2024)-Behind The Scenes.

type: Behind the Scenes

overview: A man is tired of life for a long time and he wants to commit suicide, but...

title: Bloom of Old Trees

character: hemin

job: General Manager

job: First Assistant Director

job: Second Assistant Director

job: Continuity

job: Clapper Loader

job: First Assistant "C" Camera

job: Catering

job: Gaffer

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Wardrobe Designer

job: Sound Recordist

job: Sound Designer

job: First Assistant Art Direction

job: Actor's Assistant

job: Color Grading

original_title: چرۆی درەختە پیرەکان


title: Kifn

name: ترەیلەری فیلمی کفن || KFN MOVIE TRAILER 2024

overview: In the 2000s, several families in Sulaimani were recording videos and archiving their family memories in various ways. Peri, in her early teens, has just gotten married. Her mother passed away when she was very young, so she spent her entire life living with her aunt and cousin. Her aunt and cousin arranged her marriage to someone outside their family, which later caused significant problems in her and her husband's life. These issues eventually forced Peri to revisit the old family archives to find a way to resolve their troubles.

title: Kifn

title: کفن

overview: Peri, een tiener, is net getrouwd. Haar moeder overleed toen ze nog heel jong was, waardoor ze haar hele leven bij haar tante en nicht woonde. Haar tante en nicht hadden een huwelijk voor haar geregeld met iemand buiten de familie, wat nu aanzienlijke problemen veroorzaakt in haar huwelijk. Deze problemen dwingen Peri uiteindelijk om de oude familiearchieven te raadplegen om een oplossing te vinden.

character: Goran

character: Pari

character: Hiwa

character: Ismet

character: Naeem

job: Producer

job: Writer

job: Assistant Director

job: Digital Producer

original_title: کفن

title: Kfn


title: Dekan Cave Massacre

overview: In 1969, the peaceful village of Dekan in the Qasrok district, located 95 kilometers east of Duhok, fell victim to a ruthless attack by the Ba'ath regime. Amidst the chaos, the villagers sought refuge in a nearby cave.  As the conflict escalated, the Iraqi armed forces launched a relentless assault on the area. The ensuing violence and bombings shattered the tranquility of Dekan, leaving its inhabitants in a desperate struggle for survival.

title: Dekan Cave Massacre

job: Director

job: Sound

original_title: Dekan Cave Massacre


title: All the Mountains Give

overview: A powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traden between the Kurdish cities and towns of Iran and borders of Iraq.  The film follows Hamid and Yasser over six years as they contend with the life threatening conditions they and their families have to face to survive.  A rare insight into the plight of the Kurdish people, this is an elegant portrait of a marginalised people, where the palpable sense of risk and danger is contrasted with the gentle rhythms of family life under harsh conditions.

title: All the Mountains Give

title: Дары гор

overview: Из-за бедности в курдских сёлах Ирана многие люди вынуждены зарабатывать на жизнь контрабандой, перевозя товары через опасную ирано-иракскую границу. Такая форма контрабанды называется колбари, а люди — колбарами. Сегодня около 400 000 курдов втянуты в колбари. Каждый год около 200 колбаров погибают или получают ранения, будучи застреленными службой безопасности. Падают с гор, наступают на мины или замерзают от холода. Фильм снимался в течение шести лет и рассказывает историю Хамида и Ясера, двух близких друзей, которых принудительно отправили в колбари.

title: Dağların Verdiği Her Şey

overview: Film, İran'ın Kürt şehirleri ile Irak sınırı arasında gizlice mal taşıyan 'Kolbar'ların güçlü bir anlatısıdır. Altı yıl boyunca Hamid ve Yasser'i takip eden belgesel, hayatta kalmak için aileleriyle birlikte göğüs gerdikleri ölümcül tehlikeleri gözler önüne seriyor. Bu yapım, elle tutulur tehlike hissini, zorlu koşullar altındaki aile hayatının naif ritimleriyle karşılaştırarak ötekileştirilmiş bir halkın zarif bir portresini çiziyor.

job: Cinematography

original_title: همه کوه ها می دهند


title: The Trouble of Being a Boy

overview: A young boy goes outside to search for a rooster that has been switched to a neighbor's. and upon his return, an unwelcome guest awaits him.

title: The Trouble of Being a Boy

job: Editor

job: Production Manager

job: Music

job: Idea

job: Screenplay

job: Director of Photography

job: Set Designer

original_title: دەردەسەرییەکانی کوڕبوون

title: دردسرهای پسر بودن


title: Hêvî

overview: The little deaf and dumb boy Zeyno (9) is living with his father Mustafa (42) and elder brother Çeto (20) in their house far from the village. Zeyno spends all his time by playing with his cute sheep. His father Mustafa who can’t earn as well as he used to, decides to livestock by insist of his friends. Çeto helps an animal dealer called Emin (35) who he met in the town, and starts earning his own money. After some works Çeto trusts Emin and introduces him to his father. Zeyno is getting worried about his sheep after his dad starts selling livestock with Emin. Emin is going to make a big deal of animals with Mustafa and buys his all animal. A big transporitng of animals will be done. Zeyno’s beloved sheep is also among them. Zeyno how is very sad about his sheep, is now looking a way of saving his cute sheep and zeyno will be in a hide and difficult struggle.

title: Hêvî

overview: İnsanlığın kadim temalarından umudu, küçük bir aile üzerinden anlatan filmde, sağır ve dilsiz Zeyno, babası Mustafa ve ağabeyi Çeto ile birlikte köyden uzaktaki evlerinde yaşamakta, tüm zamanını annesinden kalan koyunuyla geçirmektedir. Abisi Çeto, tanıştığı hayvan tüccarı Emin’e yardım eder ve kendi parasını kazanmaya başlar. Mustafa, Emin ile hayvan alıp satmaya başlayınca, Zeyno koyununun akıbeti için endişelenmeye başlar.

title: Hêvî

job: Art Direction

original_title: Hêvî

title: Umut

title: Hêvî


title: Piri Reis: The Incredible Chart

name: Piri Reis: The Incredible Chart (International Trailer)

overview: In 1929, Diessmann, a German scholar, discovers an ancient map of a Kurdish Admiral, struggling to find out the map's secrets, and expose one of the biggest lies in history. The chart leads him to so many troubles during his Journey around the world.

title: Piri Reis: The Incredible Chart

character: Narrator

character: Piri Reis (Old)

character: Piri Reis (Young)

character: Piri Reis (Child)

character: Prof Charles Hapgood

character: Captain Arlington Mallery

character: Gustav Adolf Deissmann

character: Mr Young Soo

character: Mr Chen & The Wanted man

character: Alexander Errikson

character: Thomas Leon Martin

character: Richard Abraham Rabinson

character: Moses Williams

character: Abu Noora

character: Liam Schneider

character: Piri's Bestfriend

character: John Brown

character: Jacob Brown

character: The Blind Man

character: As himself

job: Co-Producer

job: Sound Effects

job: Makeup Designer

job: Translator

job: Art Department Manager

original_title: پیری ڕه‌ئیس: نه‌خشه باوه‌ڕپێنەكراوه‌كه


title: the shepherd

type: Logo

overview: two shepherds live in a remote Kurdish village , one day they wake up and everything changes .

title: the shepherd

character: shero

character: shvan

character: alo

character: barkat

character: the chiled

job: Writer

job: VFX Artist

original_title: shivan


title: White on Black

overview: A boy whom his routine was white, faces black color

title: White on Black

character: boy

job: Director

job: Lighting Artist

job: Sound Designer

original_title: سپی لەسەر رەش

title: White on Black


title: Broken Border

overview: In all the borders of Iran, smuggling of fuels is so prevalent that many people are engaged with it. The type of equipment for carrying the smuggled cargo is based on the geographical situation, but in all situations human beings play the most important role. The reasons for smuggling also vary, based on the existing situation in these areas. This film follows smugglers who work on the boarder between West Iran and Iraq (Kurdistan). It accompanies people who don’t talk to anybody during the day, seeing their daily lives and the jobs related to smuggling. Their cargo is taken over mountains and valleys, eventually reaching their final destination in Iraq. Here they find a kind of traditional café that allows the labourers to rest.

title: Broken Border

original_title: مرز شکسته

title: Marze Shekaste


title: Whiteboards

overview: Five years after Blackboard (2000) by Smira Makhmalbaf, in 2005, Whiteboard was released. It is directed by Fardin Batmani. This film tells the story of the negative impact of the Blackboards on the villagers in general and Said's social life in particular. It shows the realistic side of literate and cultural life in the region.

title: Whiteboards

character: Self

job: Cinematography

original_title: تەختەسپی


title: Bibi

overview: The film tells the story of two brothers who exchange places so that one of them can escape from prison.

title: Bibi

character: Hama

character: Ali

character: Bibi

character: Shami

job: Supervising Producer

job: Editor

original_title: بیبی

title: BE.BE

title: بی بی

title: بیبی


title: Sala's Car

overview: Sala wants to buy a car, but because he has no money, he has to find other ways. This leads him into unconventional ways.

title: Sala's Car

character: Salar (Sala)

job: Scenario Writer

job: Camera Operator

job: Continuity

job: Boom Operator

job: Lighting Manager

original_title: سەیارەکەی سالە


title: Maybe Tomorrow

overview: The story follows Kurdish forces' 18-month fight against ISIS from 2016-2017, highlighting women's role, international volunteers, key battles like Manbij and Raqqa, and civilian life under Kurdish self-rule.

title: Maybe Tomorrow

title: Можливо завтра

original_title: Belkî Sibe


title: Winter Girls

status: PostProduction

overview: The story of Yazidi women in a wake of a heavy war, after a terrible trauma. They are ready to return to their imperfect life, but their children from ISIS terrorists have become their most controversial obstacle in joining their families.

title: Winter Girls

original_title: Dokhtaran e Zemestan


title: Alpha and Omega

overview: "In this surreal arthouse short film set in a world far beyond our Milky Way, life is filled with secrets and mysteries, where everything defies the modern way of living. In this realm, words hold the power to change—or even ruin—everything. They will be present there when words leave your mouth in the closest place with you, immersing you in the colors of the galaxies."

title: Alpha and Omega

character: Narrator

job: Art Direction

job: Executive Producer

job: Assistant Director

job: Lighting Director

job: Sound

job: Sound Assistant

job: Assistant Director of Photography

job: Assistant Sound Editor

job: Special Effects

original_title: ئەلف و یا


title: The Sin

overview: Resho (12) and his 3 friends go to a cave to hunt some birds which is believed haunted in the village. Resho makes a joke to Memo who is naif and coward and scares him while they're in the cave. Memo passes out and doesn't wake up again. When they're back in the village, it's shaking with the news that Memo is struck by the evil spirits. While the prayer-exorcist is torturing Memo to save his soul from the demons, Resho suffers a pang of conscience because of this secret that he can't tell and leads his friend to the threshold of death.

title: The Sin

job: Director

job: Screenplay

original_title: Günah


title: A 157

overview: War and life in a border camp between the Iraqi and Turkish borders.

title: A 157

overview: Krieg und Leben in einem Grenzlager zwischen der irakischen und der türkischen Grenze.

title: A 157


title: Evil Eyes: Part 2

overview: The movie follows the story of a guy who's notorious in his village for his evil eyes, wrecking havoc on anything he lays his eyes on.

title: Evil Eyes: Part 2

character: Haji Jadr

job: Writer

job: Lighting Artist

job: Graphic Designer

job: Visual Effects Editor

job: 3D Editor

job: Editor

job: Sound Effects

job: Director of Photography

original_title: چاوپیس: بەشی دووەم


title: Under the Load of Life

overview: In the desolate mountains of Iran, over 20,000 people have become kolbars, forced into a dangerous smuggling trade which left 45 dead and 172 injured in 2022. This documentary focuses on opportunity and safety as basic rights as kolbars risk their lives daily and are frequently shot by Iranian border guards.

title: Under the Load of Life

job: Producer

original_title: ژیاندالە ژێر باری


title: The Mountains

overview: This film is about waiting women who are looking at the mountains so that their loved ones can return home, but …

title: The Mountains

original_title: The Mountains


title: 13th of May

overview: The first protests against the Ba’athist regime in Iraq began in Halabja in 1995. The people of Halabja were able to drive the Ba’athist regime out of their city for 72 hours, but no one heard the cry of the people of Halabja, and as a result many people were killed in complete silence.  And were buried alive, perhaps Halabja paid the ransom for its positions, which later became the first city in the world to be chemically bombed.

title: 13th of May

original_title: 13th of May


title: Starting Over

overview: A picture of a despot, strong military despot who has the joints of the state like all dictators. An oblique image, symbolizes the corruption of power. Since all aspects of life has filled intensively with corruption in hands of corrupted power, no one dared to correct the situation of the picture.

title: Starting Over

original_title: Starting Over


title: The General Inspector

overview: When the governor hears that a general inspector has come to town, fearing that he'll uncover his corruption, he and his government officials panic. They mistake a gambler for the inspector.

title: The General Inspector

title: El inspector general

overview: Cuando el gobernador se entera de que un inspector general ha llegado a la ciudad, teme que descubra su corrupción, por lo que él y sus funcionarios entran en pánico. Por error, confunden a un jugador con el inspector.

character: Governor Qadir

character: Sherko

character: Ibrahim (Bla)

character: Headmaster

character: Hotel Waiter

character: Zhian

job: Theatre Play

original_title: جەنابی موفەتیش


title: Ants Apartment

overview: This is the story of three Kurdish family members in the middle of an Iraqi desert. One day, the arrival of several people will change their destinies forever.

title: کۆشکی مێروولەکان

overview: C'est l'histoire de trois membres d'une famille au milieu d'un désert irakien après la première guerre du Golfe (1980-1988). Un jour, l'arrivée de plusieurs personnes va changer à jamais leur destin. Par un procédé cinématographique très intéressant, le réalisateur parvient à nous captiver jusqu'à la dernière seconde, sans jamais tomber dans le pathétique.

title: Ants Apartment

character: The Woman

character: The Man

job: Cinematography

original_title: کۆشکی مێروولەکان

title: Koshki melurekan


title: Tonight's the Night

overview: The movie starts with a guy being unable to sleep, he decides to get up in the middle of the night for a walk, singing about how lucky other people are.

title: Tonight's the Night

original_title: ئیمشەو شەوە


title: Neighbourhood's Menace

overview: Qala falls in love with a girl, getting him in trouble.

title: Neighbourhood's Menace

character: Qala

character: Qala's Father

character: Yaqub

character: Hama Tall

character: Kalle's Brother

character: Kalle

job: Supervising Producer

original_title: کەڵەگای گەڕەک


title: Painter

overview: Movie overiew unavailable.

title: Painter

job: Production Manager

job: Art Direction

job: Makeup Artist

job: Script

job: Costumer

job: Music

job: Camera Operator

job: Scenario Writer

original_title: بۆیاخچی


title: Harsh Land and Distant Sky

overview: Harun, a Kurdish freedom fighter, is haunted by the memories of war that have left him with post-traumatic stress, and burdened by a profound guilt. In an effort to seek solace, his friend takes him to see a group of Yarsan musicians (an ancient Kurdish religious group), who believe that their sacred Tanbur music can soothe the soul and cure illness. When the music cannot alleviate the burden of war from Harun’s heart, he is guided to Maryam, a traditional Kurdish tattooist who lives in a remote village located in the Triangle of Borders region, where Iran, Iraq, and Turkey cross. When Harun eventually opens up about his past, his memories intertwine with those of the village, and more is subsequently unveiled.

title: Harsh Land and Distant Sky

character: Harun

character: Shirin

character: Maryam

character: Azad

character: Musician

job: Director

job: Writer

job: First Assistant Director

job: Color Grading

job: Dresser

job: Sound Editor

job: Casting

job: Gaffer

job: Focus Puller

original_title: زەوی سەخت و ئاسمان دوور

title: أرض قاسية وسماء بعيدة


title: Mistake

overview: The movie overview is unavailable.

title: Mistake

original_title: هەڵە


title: Our Name is Foreigner

overview: Hêlîn, Selin, Firat and Serhat are siblings who grew up in a village in central Switzerland. They carry their family living-room out into public space: first the colourful carpet, then the couch, last of all the hot Çay. A new story takes shape where anger and resilience find their place unfazed alongside othering and fear.

title: Our Name is Foreigner

job: Screenstory

job: Producer

job: Editor

job: Cinematography

job: Sound Designer

job: Lighting Design

original_title: Unser Name ist Ausländer


title: Pomegranate Tree

overview: The pomegranate tree is the story of an old woman who takes care of her grandson's only relic, which is a pomegranate tree, until the mischief of a few children changes everything.

title: Pomegranate Tree

title: Гранатовое дерево

overview: Это история о старушке, которая заботится о единственной реликвии своей внучки - гранатовом дереве, пока шалость нескольких детей не меняет все.

original_title: Pomegranate Tree


title: Rashid, the Boy From Sinjar

overview: After surviving ISIS prisons as a child, Rashid has been reunited with his family in Sinjar, northwestern Iraq. Now a teenager, the young Yazidi dreams of a brighter future. But peace is fragile, and hatred against his community is resurfacing.

title: Rashid, the Boy From Sinjar

title: Rashid, l’enfant de Sinjar

overview: Rescapé des prisons de Daesh lorsqu’il était enfant, Rashid a retrouvé sa famille à Sinjar, au nord-est de l’Irak. Aujourd’hui adolescent, ce jeune Yézidi rêve d’un avenir meilleur dans un pays en pleine reconstruction. Mais la paix est fragile à Sinjar, et la haine contre la minorité yézidie refait surface. À l’aube de l’âge adulte, Rashid se réinvente au milieu des changements qui secouent son quotidien et se demande s’il faut partir ou rester.

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound

job: Music

original_title: Rashid, l’enfant de Sinjar

production_countries: BE FR


title: The Blue Brazili

overview: In 1980s Erbil, five boys from broken childhoods and forgotten streets found their identity behind the wheel of a stolen blue Volkswagen — they called it “The Brazili.” What began as survival soon spiraled into violence, fear, and infamy. The Blue Brazili is a haunting tale of lost youth, crime, and the dark path that trauma can carve through a life.

title: The Blue Brazili

character: Mohammed

character: Fakhradin

character: Kaka

character: Fars

character: Ghambar

character: Mohammed, childhood

character: Fakhradin, childhood

character: Kaka, childhood

character: Fars, childhood

character: Ghambar, childhood

character: Farhad

character: Aesha

character: Aesha's Mother

character: Aesha's Brother

character: Aesha's Cousin

character: Shadi

character: Shadi, childhood

character: Yasa

job: Director

job: Executive Producer

job: Writer

job: Original Music Composer

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Colorist

job: Production Design

job: Art Direction

job: Costume Designer

job: Sound Recordist

original_title: بەڕازیلیە شینەکە


title: The Bread Season

overview: “The Bread Season” takes place today in the Kurdish city of Amed (Diyarbakir), located within present day eastern Turkey. Working class life is a daily struggle that places enormous pressure on the family and familiar relationships. This film follows the experiences of one such family and its members: Mahmoud, the father; Fatma, the mother; and Azad, their son, as they survive and dream of different ways of living while stuck in the open hostility of their family relationship.

title: Время жатвы

overview: Действие происходит в наши дни в курдском городе Амед (Диярбакыр), расположенном на территории современной Восточной Турции. Жизнь рабочего класса – это ежедневная борьба, которая оказывает огромное влияние на отношения в семьях. Фильм рассказывает об одной такой семье, состоящей из отца Махмуда, матери Фатьмы и их сына Азада. О том, как они выживают, как мечтают о совсем другой жизни и как конфликтуют друг с другом.

title: The Bread Season

job: Associate Producer

job: Producer

job: Editor

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Demsala Nan

production_countries: US TR


title: The Little Black Fish

overview: The Little Black Fish tells the tale of a small, inquisitive fish who dares to question the limitations of her world—the stream where generations of fish have lived without exploring beyond. Driven by curiosity and a thirst for truth, she embarks on a brave journey beyond the known waters, encountering various creatures, dangers, and wonders. Her journey becomes a powerful metaphor for resistance, growth, and the importance of independent thought.

title: The Little Black Fish

character: Little Black Fish

character: The Pelican

character: The Narrator

character: The Lizard

character: The Crab

character: The Mother Fish

character: The Yellow Fish

character: The Moon

job: Book

job: Translator

job: Dramaturgy

job: Story

original_title: ماسیی ڕەشی بچکۆلە


title: A strange encounter

overview: It was a normal night for Hiwa as he was on a call with Blnd, a dear friend of his, but as Hiwa gets off the call to go watch a late night horror movie, he gets an unexpected visit from a familiar face, and strange events occur throughout the night to both friends. will they survive till dawn?

title: A strange encounter

character: Blnd

character: Hiwa

job: Director

job: Director of Photography

original_title: بەسەرهاتێکی نامۆ


title: Drk

overview: The human brain is very powerful.

title: Drk

character: Boy

job: Writer

job: Sound Effects

job: Gaffer

job: Music

original_title: Drk

title: درک


title: Naharina

name: Tràiler | Naharina, resistència comunitària al Kurdistan sirià [Activa subtítols]

overview: Naharina are the descendants of the peoples who inhabited Mesopotamia thousands of years ago.  Those who make communality their essence and the coexistence of different ethnic groups their strength. But there is no longer a river, Turkey has dried it up and made life impossible for millions of people.

title: Naharina

title: Naharina

overview: Los naharina son descendientes de los pueblos que habitaron Mesopotamia hace miles de años. Para ellos, la comunidad es su esencia y la coexistencia entre diferentes grupos étnicos su fuerza. Pero ya no existe un río; Turquía lo ha secado, haciendo imposible la vida de millones de personas.

job: Sound

original_title: Naharina


title: Tar

overview: Qetran (Tar) is a feature-length documentary film about the history of the Sulaymaniyah Cigarette Factory(Now: Culture Factory) and the stories of some of its workers, including the bitter and sweet tales of their lives, especially the female workers. It explores the impact and role of this factory from social, economic, and political perspectives.

title: Tar

character: Himself

character: Herself

job: Production Manager

job: Cinematography

job: Researcher

original_title: قەتران


title: In Our Garden There Was an Olive Tree

overview: In "In Our Garden There Was an Olive Tree," we follow 67-year-old Almasa, whose visit to Germany became a nightmare when radical Islamic groups, supported by the Turkish army, took her home in Afrin. Unable to return to her village, despite still holding the key, Almasa embodies the hope of reclaiming her confiscated land and the olive groves she once cared for. Her story reflects a deep longing for her roots and the memories she lost.

title: In Our Garden There Was an Olive Tree

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: In Our Garden There Was an Olive Tree


title: Kavukî Bokan

overview: "Kavukî Bokan" tells the story of the endangered çirgan (Otis tarda) bird and its struggle for survival, highlighting the destruction of its habitats in Kurdistan and urging the need for conservation.

title: Kavukî Bokan

job: Producer

original_title: Kavukî Bokan


title: Şewe

overview: Peşrew and Amine are expectant parents living a normal life in the suburbs. However, their lives soon begin to change with the arrival of their newborn daughter — and with her, the presence of a tormented entity known in Kurdish folklore as Şewe (Sha-wa).

title: Şewe

character: Amine

character: Şewe

character: Peshrew

character: Sirwe

character: Hawkar

character: Avan

character: Shilan

character: Child Poltergeist

character: Pasha

character: Entity/Tribesman

character: Tribesman

character: Doctor

character: Akam

original_title: Şewe


title: Vartinîs

overview: On a dark October night in 1993, the village of Vartinis (Altınova), Muş, was engulfed in fire. The Öğüt family’s home burned before their eyes, trapping seven children and two adults inside. There was no escape. By morning, only ashes remained.Directed by Mehmet Ömer Biçer, Vartinis unearths the echoes of a silenced tragedy. In a remote village overshadowed by the state, a long-buried atrocity is brought to light. Eyewitness testimonies challenge official records, exposing unsettling truths and wounds that refuse to heal. This is not merely the story of a single night, but one of an enduring struggle for justice.More than just a massacre, this is the story of a village, a family, and a people whose memory the state tried to erase.

title: Vartinîs

job: Sound Mixer

job: Co-Producer

job: Assistant Director of Photography

job: Makeup Artist

job: Art Direction

original_title: Vartinîs


title: Interpreter

overview: Nothing But The Truth is the story of a Kurdish interpreter who inspired by the BLM movement in Los Angeles tries to sway the immigration case of a refugee by giving him legal advice during his highly intense court hearing.

title: Interpreter

character: Kaman

character: TV Anchor

character: Judge

character: Mother

character: Refugee

job: Director

job: Editor

job: Production Design

job: Set Decoration

job: Assistant Director

job: Supervising Sound Editor

job: Sound Editor

job: Visual Effects Coordinator

original_title: Interpreter

title: Nothing But The Truth


title: Cause

name: Doz Film by Viyam Mayi, Official Trailer

overview: THE FILM "DOZ", TOLD IN THE BACKDROP OF BEAUTIFUL KURDISH LANDSCAPE, IS ABOUT SIRMEN, THE DAUGHTER OF A RICH MAN, WHO REFUSES TO MARRY THE MAN HER FATHER HAS PICKED OUT FOR HER. SIRMEN LEAVES HER PARENTS' HOUSE TO SEEK AID FROM THE YEZIDI PRINCE.

title: Cause

character: Xurşîd

character: Bavê Xurşîd

job: Writer

job: Cinematography

job: Editorial Consultant

job: Director of Previsualization

job: Camera Department Manager

original_title: Doz


title: Tea For Three

overview: A newlywed couple welcomes the husband's long time friend from abroad for an intimate dinner. As laughter and tension mingle, the husband begins to sense an unsettling closeness between his wife and their guest. Fueled by suspicion, jealousy, and pride, he considers crossing a line of his own—one that blurs guilt, desire, and the quiet undoing of trust.

title: Tea For Three

character: Hazhar

character: Diya

character: Darin

job: Director of Photography

job: Lighting Technician

job: Boom Operator

job: Sound Designer

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Production Assistant

job: Producer

original_title: Tea For Three


title: Dull-Head

overview: Aza, a mentally challenged young man from a small village, is determined to get married. Ignoring his father's objections, he heads to the city to find a job. What follows is a series of comedic misadventures as Aza struggles to survive in a world he doesn't fully understand—failing at jobs, stumbling into trouble, and eventually turning to begging. After his chaotic city experience, he heads back to his village, where everyone’s been waiting to see what became of him.

title: Dull-Head

character: Aza

character: Mam Sharif

character: Uncle Karim

character: Qumri

job: Director

original_title: کەللەپووت

title: کەللەپوت


title: Ezda

title: Ezda

overview: Ezda, IŞİD’in Ezidi toplumuna karșı soykırımından sağ kurtulan genç bir annenin hikâyesini anlatıyor.

title: Ezda

original_title: Ezda


title: Color of the Stone

overview: Interweaving the personal and the collective, this film follows the echoes of a painful past—the burning of Kurdish villages in 1990s Turkey—and explores how these memories, captured through a family album, ripple across generations.

title: Taşın Rengi

overview: Bir aile albümünden yola çıkan film, 90’larda yakılan Kürt köylerinin kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılan kolektif hafızada nasıl dönüştüğünü, kişisel ve toplumsal olanın kesişiminde izliyor.

title: Color of the Stone

title: Rengê Kevir

job: Original Music Composer

job: Editor

original_title: Rengê Kevir


title: Night and Fog in Kurdistan

overview: The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking people of what is now Iraqi Kurdistan, have been oft persecuted for maintaining their traditional culture, including a unique religion based on pre-Zoroastrian beliefs. This rendered them a special target for ISIS, which in 2014 massacred and abducted thousands in Shingal, the largest Yazidi-majority city. Kurdish director Shilan Saadi—beset by her own childhood memories of the Iran–Iraq War—runs a filmmaking workshop for survivors of Shingal, teaching seven teenaged girls to document their lives in a Turkish refugee camp. Bonds are forged and strengthened, but soon fray as one after another departs for Europe. Taking a mixed-media approach to the Yazidi genocide and its aftermath, Saadi and her collaborators produce an uncannily powerful group portrait, each frame a witness to perseverance and haunted by absence. - Josh Martin, Special Programs & Feature Film Programmer, Austin Asian American Film Festival

title: Night and Fog in Kurdistan

original_title: Night and Fog in Kurdistan

production_countries: BE CA GE TR


title: Rubbish Bouquet

overview: When a college student leaves his rubbish behind, his whole day takes a strange turn.

title: Rubbish Bouquet

character: Boy

character: Girl

job: Art Direction

original_title: چەپکە زبڵ


title: Human

FRAGMAN (İNSAN - MIROV - HUMAN)

site: Vimeo

overview: A little child's conscience tries to be a hope for an old woman's home.

title: Human

character: Old Woman

character: The Child

job: Screenplay

original_title: Mirov

title: مرۆڤ


title: The Time Of Harvest

overview: A little boy hides all the sharp and cutting tools in his family so that the chickens won't get their heads cut off anymore.

title: The Time Of Harvest

job: Writer

job: Sound

original_title: Dema ku genim dirijin

title: کاتی دروێنە


title: Manhole

name: فیلمی کوردی سینەمایی مەنهۆڵ - Manhole @filmikurdi.official #مەنهۆڵ #فیلمی_کوردی

overview: A tale about a struggling father facing hardship while his son battles illness.

title: Manhole

job: Casting

original_title: مەنهۆڵ


title: Awêne Tirs

overview: An independent Kurdish short film that highlights the conflict between individuals and their true selves, particularly in societies that suppress authenticity and freedom.  Just when she thinks she’s finally gotten over the desire to find herself, her true self haunts her one last time and asks to play one round of chess, in which they both play in favor of only one.

title: Awêne Tirs

original_title: Awêne Tirs


title: In the Shadow

overview: Kavan is a teenage boy with Down syndrome who lives with his mother and older brother. His father passed away many years ago.

title: In the Shadow

title: La sebarda

original_title: La sebarda

production_countries: IR IQ SE


title: Singing Wings

overview: Khadijeh, an elderly Kurdish woman from Iran, has two pressing tasks - one, to care for a stork whose wings were injured by high-voltage wires and left behind; and two, to dissuade her daughter from emigrating to the UK. In her mind, there is no contradiction between helping the wounded bird migrate and preventing her own daughter from migrating. It’s just that they cannot be achieved by willpower alone. And of the two, changing her daughter’s mind is far more difficult.

title: Singing Wings

title: 노래하는 황새 깃털

overview: 이란의 쿠르드족 할머니 카디제에게는 두 가지 과업이 있다. 하나는 고압전선에 날개를 다쳐 홀로 마을에 남은 황새를 치료하는 것이고, 다른 하나는 더 나은 삶을 위해 영국으로 이주하려는 딸의 마음을 돌려놓는 것이다. 카디제 할머니에게 황새의 이주를 돕고 딸의 이주는 만류하는 데에는 아무런 모순이 없다. 다만 마음만으로는 되지 않는 일일 뿐. 게다가 마음대로 되지 않기로는 자식이 황새보다 더 하다.

job: Production Design

original_title: ئاوازی باڵەکان

title: بال‌های آوازخوان

production_countries: IR GE BE


title: After the Downfall

overview: As the era of Saddam ends in Iraq, far away in Germany, Azad, a Kurdish exile is glued to the TV screen. He has invited over his exiled Iraqi friends to celebrate the event. They have brought plenty of wine and food. As the guests dance, sing and rejoice together, a continuous stream of images is shown on television - and the initial joy becomes fused with ongoing tensions and betrayals.

title: After the Downfall

original_title: Après la chute

production_countries: DE FR


title: Serê Kaniyê

overview: A reflection on war, as seen through the lives of three Kurdish women belonging to the Kongreya Star movement—women who resist and dream, forging paths toward autonomy and empowerment at the heart of the conflict in Rojava, Syrian Kurdistan. A poetic testimony to the courage, solidarity, and indomitable hope that can spring forth even in a land ravaged by devastation.

title: Serê Kaniyê

overview: Una reflexión sobre la guerra, vista a través de las vidas de tres mujeres kurdas pertenecientes al movimiento Kongreya Star, mujeres que resisten y sueñan, forjando caminos de autonomía y empoderamiento en el corazón del conflicto en Rojava, Kurdistán sirio. Un testimonio poético del coraje, la solidaridad y la esperanza indomable que pueden brotar incluso en una tierra devastada por la devastación.

title: Serê Kaniyê

character: Self

original_title: Serê Kaniyê

production_countries: ES SY


title: The Metamorph

overview: This film is not just about vitiligo - it’s about how we see, how we judge, and how we can begin to reimagine what beauty truly means. It’s a portrait of one woman’s transformation, but also of my own evolving understanding of perception and human dignity.

title: The Metamorph

original_title: The Metamorph

title: The Metaphor

country: GB


title: Dead But Not Gone

overview: Nûşîn returns to her Kurdish family when her sister is hospitalised after attempting suicide and is declared brain dead. But her sister is pregnant – accidentally? Torn between feelings of guilt, shame and social pressure, Nûşîn fights against her family's wish to keep her sister's body alive until the baby is born.

title: Dead But Not Gone

original_title: Dead But Not Gone

production_countries: DE TR


title: Burning Dust

overview: As Lake Ûrmîye dries into salt plains, the once-fertile village of Dizaj Dol faces ecological collapse. Amid dying crops and vanished livelihoods, Kurdish and Azari neighbours struggle to save their land, turning to faith and shared resilience against nature’s relentless devastation.

title: Burning Dust

job: Music

job: Drone Cinematographer

job: Sound Recordist

job: Colorist

original_title: تۆزی بەتین


title: Knights of Shengal

overview: As in the story of Dewrêşê Evdî, we follow the journey of 12 Kurdish guerrillas who want to save Shengal.  The ISIS groups are approaching, and the official authorities decide to flee with his 12 knights, who are fleeing his beloved Edûlê because the Yazidis are not Muslims. A guerrilla group led by women, the new 12 knights, manages to liberate the city and bring the people to safe areas after fighting a historic battle against the Khalifa of ISIS.

title: Knights of Shengal

original_title: Suwariyên Şengalê


title: After What

overview: ‘After What’ by Rodî Osman tells the story of a young man who calls for help on a lonely road under the scorching summer heat. Despite his cries, no one stops to help him. When he finally collapses from exhaustion, cars pile up on top of him. The short film vividly depicts isolation, helplessness and the deadly indifference of his surroundings.

title: After What

original_title: After What


title: A Bridge to Rojava

overview: Elke and Günter promote the twinning project between the Syrian city of Derik and the Berlin district of Friedrichshain - Kreuzberg. The documentary shows the Kurdish northeast of Syria, also known as Rojava.  The two are accompanied on their journey by the mayors of Derik, Feremez and Rojin, who give us a deep insight into the current social developments and challenges.  Through the journey with Elke and Günter, a vivid picture of a country in transition emerges and we get a feel for the people and life in Rojava.

title: A Bridge to Rojava

original_title: Eine Brücke nach Rojava

production_countries: DE SY


title: Bird of happiness

overview: "Bird of happinees" is a play that talks about a group of rebels who take over the parliament hall with a plan

title: Bird of happiness

title: باڵندەی کامەرانی

character: Arma

character: Yalda

original_title: باڵندەی کامەرانی

title: باڵندەی کامەرانی


title: Seven Seconds

overview: “Seven Seconds” tells the story of a writer who faces trouble with the police because of his writings.

title: Seven Seconds

character: Kako

character: Katurian

character: Police Officer

original_title: حەوت چرکە

title: حەوت چرکە


title: We don't have time for song

overview: "We don't have time for song" discusses the issues and problems of contemporary humans, especially within romantic relationships and families.

title: We don't have time for song

original_title: کاتمان نەماوە بۆ گۆرانی

title: کاتمان نەماوە بۆ گۆرانی


title: Homeland Night

overview: The play “Homeland Night” depicts National Day from the perspective of a journalist traveling in a taxi and engaging in dialogue with the driver. The dialogue reveals that homeland is not merely land and flag, but rather a profound sentiment that resides in the heart and conscience of humanity. The play, in a metaphorical manner, exposes the discrepancy between the ideal of homeland and the reality of everyday life.

title: Homeland Night

original_title: شەوی نیشتیمانی

title: شەوی نیشتیمانی


title: In the beginning, at the very beginning

overview: The play commences with an exploration of the origins of life and human creation, positioning its characters within the interplay of darkness and light. Through dialogue and emotion, it reveals how humanity defines itself and how all things originate from the very beginning—simultaneously voiceless and silent, yet imbued with feeling and meaning that manifests through human action

title: In the beginning, at the very beginning

original_title: سەرەتا زۆر سەرەتا

title: سەرەتا زۆر سەرەتا


title: Mourning

overview: Following the emotional void between the members of a family mourning their loved one, they face new challenges; the grandmother struggles with raising her two grandchildren, the daughter is affected by her mother's absence, and the son is looking for a way to escape rural life; but things don't go as they wish.

title: Mourning

character: Sister

character: Brother

character: Grand Mother

character: Old womam

character: Brother's Friend

character: Omid

job: Director of Photography

job: Assistant Camera

job: Art Designer

original_title: Şîn

title: شین

title: Şîn


title: The Wedding of the Pirs

overview: The Gorani Kurds living in the Hawraman region of Iran continue to keep a millennium-old tradition alive today. Every winter, the people gather to commemorate Pir Shaliyar, who lived in the village of Uraman Taht in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, and ritually re-enact his legendary wedding. Inspired by the region’s deep-rooted culture, this ceremony, interwoven with prayers and dhikr, is repeated annually as a spiritual journey that has survived through the ages.

title: Pirlerin Düğünü

overview: İran’ın Hewraman bölgesinde yaşayan Gorani Kürtleri, bin yıllık bir geleneği günümüzde de  yaşatmayı sürdürüyor. Zagros Dağları’nın eteklerinde yer alan Uraman Taht köyünde  yaşamış olan Pir Şaliyar’ı anmak için her yıl kış mevsiminde bir araya gelen halk, onun  efsanevi düğününü ritüel eşliğinde yeniden canlandırıyor. Bölgenin köklü kültüründen  beslenen bu tören, ibadetler ve zikirlerle örülü, çağlar boyunca canlı kalmayı başarmış ruhsal  bir yolculuk olarak her yıl tekrarlanıyor.

title: The Wedding of the Pirs

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Pirlerin Düğünü


title: Return

key: MAEkSsXAUJQ

name: گۆرانی "مەرگ هات" the song of "death came"

overview: A girl wants to bury her dead brother's body, but she is in great danger  Adapted from Sophocles' Antigone

title: Return

character: Antigone

character: Ismene

character: Messenger

character: Guard

character: Haemon

character: Unkown

character: Eurydice

character: second guard

job: Director

job: Assistant Director

job: Dramaturgy

job: Original Story

original_title: return

title: antigone


title: expulsion

overview: Adapted from William Shakespeare' Coriolanus

title: expulsion

character: Diako

character: Sofia

character: Ana

character: Darwish

character: Aufidius

character: Escender

character: Comenius

character: Brutus

character: Unknown

character: Titus Lartius

job: Musician

job: Producer

job: Set Decoration

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Durxistnewe


title: Dengbêjên Me

overview: Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the Dengbêjs. The film is dedicated to their lives, their memories, their pain, and their resistance. Their songs and personal stories create a cinematic archive of a cultural heritage that dates back thousands of years. Between voice, music, and silence, a deeply emotional journey unfolds, becoming a farewell, a testimony, and an act of cultural survival.

title: Dengbêjên Me

overview: Dengbêjên Me ist ein einfühlsamer Dokumentarfilm über die letzten lebenden Vertreter der kurdischen mündlichen Erzähltradition – die Dengbêjs. Der Film widmet sich ihrem Leben, ihrer Erinnerung, ihrem Schmerz und ihrem Widerstand. Durch ihre Lieder und persönlichen Geschichten entsteht ein filmisches Archiv eines jahrtausendealten kulturellen Erbes. Zwischen Stimme, Musik und Stille entfaltet sich eine tiefe emotionale Reise, die zu einer Verabschiedung, einem Zeugnis und einem Akt des kulturellen Überlebens wird.

title: Dengbêjên Me

original_title: Dengbêjên Me


title: The Slope

overview: Planning to settle in Germany, Dr. Kemal travels to his village one last time to say goodbye to his father. However, events in the village lead him to an unexpected impasse. This impasse forces Kemal to confront his past and his own conscience. Ultimately, he is forced to make the difficult decision of whether to leave or stay.

title: The Slope

character: Kemal

character: Baba

job: Writer

job: Editor

original_title: Hevraz


title: Agrija

name: AGRIJA - Peshawa Ramazan - feat.(Zhulia & Zhiwar husen & Asrin Safary)-(Video Clip)

overview: Women is Life

title: Agrija

character: The Dictator

character: First Women

character: Second Women

character: Kurdish Women

character: Actor

character: actor

character: Kurdish Man

character: Dancer

job: Choreographer

job: Vocals


title: Border of Life

name: Behind the Scenes - پشتە‌پەردەی کارەکانی کویستانی سپی / زریان / سنوری ژین

name: Border of Life (Snoorî Zhîn) - سنووری ژین

overview: In this poetic and visually expressive work, Karimi examines the invisible boundaries between life and death, freedom and limitation, hope and loss. Through stark imagery and minimal dialogue, he turns physical frontiers into emotional landscapes — a cinematic meditation on the Kurdish spirit and the human condition

title: Border of Life

character: Hadi

character: Srwa

character: Hussien

character: Farhad

job: Production Manager

job: Music

original_title: سنووری ژین


title: The Storm

overview: Through rich imagery and emotional symbolism, the film explores Kurdish identity, hope, and struggle. portraying life as both resistance and renewal. Despite its brevity, Zrian carries the depth and artistic sensitivity that later defined Karimi’s documentaries, blending realism and metaphor to reveal the unseen boundaries of life in Kurdistan

title: The Storm

character: Shaho

character: Bakr

character: Masoud Aziz

job: Cinematography

job: Sound

original_title: زریان

title: Zrian


title: Year Zero

title: Year Zero

original_title: ساڵی سفر

title: ساڵی سفر


title: Sunflower's Land

name: Wlatî Gula be Rojekan - وڵاتی گوڵەبەڕۆژەکان

overview: This poetic short film reflects on Kurdish identity, love, and the fleeting nature of life through vivid imagery and emotion.

title: Sunflower's Land

job: Director of Photography

original_title: وڵاتی گوڵەبەڕۆژەکان


title: Pains Behind a Window

title: Pains Behind a Window

job: Director

original_title: ئازارەکانی ئەودیو پەنجەرەیەک

title: ئازارەکانی ئەودیو پەنجەرەیەک


title: No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman

overview: A female Kurdish-Norwegian sniper returns to the battlefield she once escaped, driven by vengeance and by the desperate hope of rescuing her younger sister, still imprisoned by ISIS in Mosul.

production_countries: IR NO


title: Goddess

title: Goddess

overview: Li gundê Nav yê Hewremana Rojhelatê Kurdistanê, tîtaleka kevnar ya bi navê Rêwresmên Sefûre Xatûnê hemî mehên Gulanê dihête nûkirin. Li goreyî baweriya şêniyên vê deverê, Sefûre hevjîna pêxember Mûsayî bû û digehîte xodawenda Anahîta ya hemî av û çeman. Ev rêwresme jî bi serkêşiya jinan û harîkariya zelaman birêve diçin û hem supasdariya wan bo avê wek xêr û diyarî, hem jî ahenggêraneka kultûrî ye.

original_title: Goddess


title: Rojin's Dream

overview: “Rojin's Dream” chronicles the journey of a disabled couple aspiring to start a family. Faced with the challenge of biological limitations, they turn to adoption in hopes of providing a loving home.

title: Rojin's Dream

original_title: Rojin's Dream

title: Rojin'in rüyası


title: Black Wednesday

overview: Thirteen years of marriage, childlessness, traditional pressures, and a difficult decision… Hüseyin sells his horse to marry a second wife. However, on Black Wednesday, considered unlucky in Zaza culture, the horse disappears. Hüseyin sets out on a journey through a storm, his search intertwined with the ghost of Zine. When he returns, everything changes with a photograph he sees: Zine is gone. Film is about the unseen cry of abandonment, inner turmoil, and a woman's voice.

title: Black Wednesday

original_title: Serezîpon


title: Death between life

overview: It tells the story of a boy whose life circumstances and obstacles force him to choose to travel illegally. Here he does not expect anything but three outcomes: arrival, death or return, This makes him try the path of life and death in order to find a better and happier life.

title: Death between life

original_title: Death between life


title: Oil: The Cancer of Our City

overview: This documentary reveals how oil, often viewed as a source of wealth and prosperity, turns into a corrosive force that harms a city’s health, environment, and social fabric

title: Oil: The Cancer of Our City

character: Himself

job: Sound Recordist

job: Editorial Consultant

original_title: نەوت: شێرپەنجەی شارەکەمان


title: Markh

overview: This film tells the story of a person whose love for the Markh (fire) tree is so great that the Markh tree takes root in his heart.

title: Markh

original_title: Markh


title: Heyran

overview: When a new school uses the old cemetery, Uncle Rasoul's wife becomes the first burial in the new, distant graveyard. Unable to bear her being alone, Rasoul secretly moves her body back to the old site. Days later, Uncle Rasoul dies himself, and he is ironically laid to rest as the very first person in the new, solitary cemetery.

title: Heyran

original_title: Heyran


title: Offside

overview: A football-loving youth named Werya is determined to go on a trip, setting a journey in motion to achieve his goal.

title: Offside

original_title: Offside


title: After This

overview: Two partners steal a safe, only to find themselves stranded in the desert. Driven by greed, one partner murders the other, but the killer is left badly wounded and alone. Trapped by his injuries and gnawing guilt, the survivor must fight his own fate in a desperate struggle to open the safe and escape the unforgiving wilderness.

title: After This

original_title: After This


title: Eclipse

overview: Bêrîvan and Helîn are two sisters living in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. Bêrîvan cultivates an interest in photography and video. While Bêrîvan shoots images of life around her, Helîn spends her time with her cat Nokê. Suddenly, the authorities announce that a blockade will be applied in the district of Sur... The blockade is forcing people to leave the area, but Bêrîvan and Helîn continue their daily activities of bringing food to their fathers. However, one day, Helîn's cat disappears. The cat's disappearance creates tension between the two sisters. Bêrîvan is trying to cope with her obligation to leave Sur and the difficulties of becoming a grown-up. She will reclaim her disrupted life and her memory.

title: Eclipse

original_title: Sîtav


title: The Shining Play

name: ترەیلەری فەرمی شانۆیی بریسکانەوە | بەرهەمی دامەزراوەی شانۆیی هێڵ. The Shining Play Trailer

overview: Jack Torrance is a writer who takes a job as a winter watchman at the Overlook Hotel، with his wife and daughter، a demon inside the hotel takes over Jack's soul، and Jack's wife and daughter must escape for their lives in this cursed hotel.

title: The Shining Play

character: Jack Torrance

character: Wendy Torrance

character: Danny Torrance

character: Alexa Gardy

character: Mr. Hallorann

character: Charlies Grady

character: Ullman & Lloyd

character: Emilya Grady

character: Ella Grady

character: The Doctor

job: Screenplay

job: Assistant Director

job: Art Direction

job: Producer's Assistant

job: Production Controller

job: Production Assistant

job: Gaffer

job: Original Film Writer

job: Original Story

original_title: شانۆیی بریسکانەوە


title: Don't Forget Me

name: Don't Forget Me Film - Official Trailer - لەبیرم مەکە

overview: "Don't Forget Me" follows the emotional journey of Baran, a Kurdish-American journalist captured by ISIS who escapes to freedom alongside other female prisoners.

title: Don't Forget Me

character: Baran

character: Khalifa

character: Kurdo

character: Zhyan

character: Hamid

original_title: Don't Forget Me


title: White

overview: In a small village classroom, a teacher often transforms the blackboard with a simple white sheet. When it is taken for a burial rite, the children refuse to let their moment slip away – and set out to reclaim what they were promised.

title: White

title: Weiß

title: Spî

overview: W małej wiosce w Kurdystanie nauczycielka szkoły podstawowej przynosi czasem do klasy niezwykły przedmiot: dużą białą kartkę. Dzieci są przyzwyczajone do widoku, jak pojawia się ona rozciągnięta nad tablicą, zmieniając salę w coś innego. Ale pewnego dnia kartka zostaje nagle zabrana przez dorosłych. Kilkoro ciekawskich uczniów podąża śladem – tylko po to, by skonfrontować się z prawdą, którą starsi mieszkańcy wioski uważają za oczywistość. Dzieci starają się zachować swoją małą radość i szukają innego sposobu na przywrócenie wspólnej chwili.

character: Student

job: Editor

job: Producer

job: Colorist

job: Production Manager

job: Script Supervisor

job: Costume Design

original_title: Spî


title: The Phantom Pain of Rojava

overview: In a secret house in northern Syria, wounded Kurdish guerrilla soldiers live with phantom pains in the shadow of a failed revolution. An Emmy-winning director's portrayal of five years in a secret community.

title: The Phantom Pain of Rojava

job: Director

original_title: The Phantom Pain of Rojava

production_countries: SE NO


title: Baj

key: KdFNCYTgGVQ

name: فیلمی کوردی سینەمایی باج Baj Movie @filmikurdi.official

overview: A family’s life collapses completely after a tragic night on which the father and his friend commit a brutal assault on his daughters. Amid his drug addiction, the father wakes up with no memory of what happened, and the family begins to confront the consequences of a crime that cannot be forgotten.

title: Baj

job: Writer

job: Sound

original_title: باج


title: Yîbo

overview: Regional Boarding Primary Schools (YİBO), established in 1962 with the stated purpose of providing access to education for children in mountainous and scattered settlements who lacked such access, were officially founded in 1962.

title: Yîbo

original_title: Yîbo


title: Blue 52

status: Planned

overview: A young woman wanders through an eerily empty city, consumed by a profound sense of isolation. As she moves through fragments of her daily life, the boundary between reality and her inner world gradually dissolves, blurring perception and emotion.

title: Blue 52

character: Performer & Narrator

original_title: Blue 52


title: Void

overview: Because of the constant rumbling of his stomach, Baran becomes estranged from his social circle and loses his job. When he returns to see the doctor, Havin takes a close interest in the sounds coming from his stomach, and the story begins to unfold in entirely unexpected directions.

title: Boşluk

overview: Ya kendi bedeninden gelen bir sesi anlayamasaydın? Baran'ın içinden yükselen o gizem, onu nereye sürükleyecek?

title: Void

original_title: Valahî


title: Anfa 8

overview: In the city of Soli, ruled by Anfa 8, where night is eternal, Horus hunts a renegade cult of solar worshippers who are desperately searching for the sun.

title: Anfa 8

character: Horus

character: Inanna / Amaterasu

character: Anfa 8 / Number One

character: Driver

character: Honeywell 6022

character: Anfa 8 Adviser

character: Number 3

character: Number 4

character: Hotel Waiter

character: Bar Waiter

character: Sol

character: Om

character: On

character: Hotel Receptionist

character: The Gamer

job: Cinematography

job: Makeup Artist

job: Lighting Director

job: First Assistant Camera

job: Music

job: Screenplay

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Anfa 8

production_countries: US IQ


title: DÛR

overview: An elderly care agency in Germany assigns Khalil, a Kurdish Syrian immigrant, to care for a lonely German woman in her home in Essen; he finds himself submerged in his mother’s voice recordings coming via WhatsApp from the mountains of Afrin, as she describes the details of making 'Makdous' and her insistence on finding a way to send it to him despite the wartime siege.

title: DÛR

character: Khalil

character: Mother of Khalil

character: Frau Fischer

job: Assistant Director

job: Gaffer

job: Casting Director

job: Sound Recordist

job: Lighting Production Assistant

job: Production Assistant

job: Assistant Director Trainee

job: Clapper Loader

job: Executive Producer

original_title: DÛR


title: The Painting Theft

overview: What started as a simple theft of a 1-million-dinar masterpiece turns into a supernatural pursuit when two students are forced to hunt down the figures that stepped out of the frame.

title: The Painting Theft

character: Hama

character: Danyar

job: Director

job: Writer

job: Sound

job: Producer

original_title: دزینی تابلۆکە


title: Blue Wednesday

overview: A young filmmaker, unable to express his emotions in reality, retreats behind the lens of his camera to create a surreal 'blue' world, seeking to preserve the simple details of his beloved that are slipping away in the real world.

title: Blue Wednesday

original_title: چوارشەمەی شین


title: Arzela From Amed

Arzela From Amed Documentary Trailer

key: -GvotnCBfZw

overview: In present-day Amed, North Kurdistan (Diyarbakır), a Kurdish filmmaker and journalist turns her camera toward the streets, documenting an ongoing struggle for democracy. As events unfold, what she captures begins to echo her own past, drawing her back into the city’s history of conflict and resistance.Blurring the line between witness and participant, Arzela from Amed becomes both a political testimony and a deeply personal journey into memory, identity, and the cost of recording a reality still in motion.

title: Arzela From Amed

original_title: Arzela From Amed


title: Under The Influence

overview: Made for a film school assignment that required a real documentary, the filmmakers instead created a fake documentary disguised as nonfiction, successfully fooling their professor.  The film takes place over the course of a drunken night, in which an alcoholic man and his drinking companion speak with the filmmakers about addiction, drifting between painful memories, absurd stories, humor, and contradictions, until the line between confession and performance begins to disappear.

title: Under The Influence

character: Sherko

character: Friend

character: (Himself)

job: Editor

job: Boom Operator

original_title: Under The Influence


title: Storyteller

overview: "Dengbêj" is the story of two women from the mountains of Kurdistan. Peyman, a brave and kind leader with a soul as beautiful as the great mountains of Kurdistan and Viyan a lion-heart and storyteller with a magical voice from heaven.

title: Storyteller

original_title: Dengbêj


title: Supraayz

overview: It's Lava's 20th birthday. She spends her day drifting between classrooms, cafés, her car, and crowded living rooms as friends and family prepare celebration after celebration in her honor.

title: Supraayz

character: Lava

character: Lava's Mother

character: Lava's Father

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound Mixer

job: Production Manager

original_title: Supraayz


title: Risha

title: Risha

overview: Risha erzählt die unerzählte Geschichte von Najmedin Shukr Rauf, dem furchtlosen PUK-Kommandanten, der als Mama Risha bekannt ist. Der Film befasst sich mit den Schlachten, Opfern und persönlichen Überzeugungen, die aus einem gewöhnlichen Mann eine kurdische Legende machten.

original_title: Risha


title: My Mother’s Story

overview: At the age of seventeen, Zahide is married off to a man fifteen years her senior. Within the sixth month of their marriage, her husband passes away, leaving her pregnant. A few months later, she gives birth to their child.Soon after, Zahide’s sister is also married—this time to the younger brother of Zahide’s late husband. When her sister, too, is widowed while carrying a child and already raising three others, Zahide is compelled, against her will, to marry the surviving brother of her deceased husband. Bound by the constraints of their time, the two sisters come to share not only the same household but also the same destiny.  Their lives unfold as a profound testimony to the harshest realities imposed upon women, where personal desire yields to societal pressure, and survival necessitates the surrender of choice. This narrative portrays the endurance of two sisters navigating an oppressive system, their shared sorrow echoing the struggles of countless women silenced by history.

title: My Mother’s Story

original_title: Çîroka Dayîkami

title: Annemin Hikayesi


title: The Sound of the Mountains

overview: A minimalist experimental film using symbolic imagery and color to reflect on Kurdish resistance, identity, survival, and rebirth through the enduring connection between people and land.

title: The Sound of the Mountains

character: The White Hand

character: The Red Hand

character: The Yellow Hand

character: The Green Hand

job: Music

job: Camera Operator

job: Sound Designer

original_title: دەنگی شاخەکان


title: No Camera

overview: A young boy from Halabja is in the final stages of his filmmaking studies. He decides to make a short documentary about the survivors of the 1988 Halabja Genocide.

title: No Camera

character: Gailan

character: Mamosta Osman

character: Mamosta Aras

character: Hemn

character: Mamosta Asi

job: Assistant Camera

original_title: بەبێ كامێرا


title: Sarevo

overview: Saeed and Abdullah are two rural teenagers in Iran who have decided to revive a camel ranch. These two teenagers live in the Sistan and Baluchistan Province, near the Afghan border and the Lut Desert. They are aiming to find jobs with sufficient income so that they can afford to stay in the area and thereby also help to secure peace and solidarity in that area. The film features aspects of the daily life of the village people, and the role of camels in it, as well as Baluchi marriage customs. This documentary focuses on the efforts of these two teenagers to improve their lives by cooperating together despite their divergent beliefs. Their example suggests that in order to achieve peace we must respect each other's beliefs, put aside ideological differences, and help each other to improve life, even under harsh desert conditions.

title: Sarevo

job: Screenplay

original_title: Sarevo


title: Door

overview: A journey into the complexity of life and the facade of old city doors, an attempt to convey the voice of those people behind the gates telling their stories.

title: Door

character: Side Character

character: Side Charachter

character: Voice Actor

character: Actor

job: Location Scout

job: Color Grading

job: Sound Design Assistant

job: First Assistant Art Direction

original_title: دەرگا


title: The Sleep of Death

overview: A Kurdish YPJ fighter wakes up heavily wounded in a house, all the family members around her are killed. She can hear that the house is surrounded by ISIS. She is out of ammunition.  In her pocket there is only one bullet left, How is she gonna use her last bullet?

title: The Sleep of Death

job: Director

original_title: Xewa Mirinê


title: The Path of the Refugee

name: Rêya Penaber (The path of Refugees)-Trailer

overview: The film follows the journeys of trans and non-binary refugee artists as well as other LGBTIQ+ activists living in Switzerland. Through art, performance, and personal narratives, Rêya Penaber explores the realities of exile and structural violence, as well as the forms of resistance and solidarity emerging within LGBTIQ+ refugee communities in Switzerland. Blending memory, creativity, and collective rituals, the film creates a space of visibility and dignity for voices that are often rendered invisible, while questioning borders, identity, and the quest for freedom.

title: The Path of the Refugee

job: Writer

original_title: Rêya Penaber