title: Resistance Is Life

name: RESISTANCE IS LIFE - Official Trailer - HD

overview: Eight-year-old Evlin characterizes the resilience of Kobane's resistance against ISIS forces through her experience in a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border.

title: Resistance Is Life

title: Vivre C'est résister

overview: Dans un camp de réfugiés situé à la frontière turco-syrienne, une fillette, Evlin symbolise la résistance de sa ville natale de Kobané contre les combattants d'ISIS. Au beau milieu de la guerre se déroulant en Syrie, l'histoire d'Evlin redonne espoir.

title: Widerstand ist leben

overview: Elvin, ein 8 Jahre altes Mädchen aus einem Flüchtlingslager an der türkisch-syrischen Grenze, charakterisiert die Widerstandsfähigkeit ihrer Heimatstadt Kobane gegenüber den militanten ISIS. Ihre Heldinnen, die kämpfenden kurdischen Frauen, verteidigen die Stadt Kobane gegen den Vormarsch der militanten ISIS. Die ganze Kraft des menschlichen Geistes sehen wir in Evlin, als sie uns zeigt, dass Hoffnung und Widerstandsfähigkeit selbst unter den tragischsten Umständen bestehen können. Widerstand ist Leben, oder „Berxwedan Jiyane“ auf Kurdisch, lautet das Mantra der Menschen von Kobane, das sie über Monate hinweg verheerende Angriffe überstehen lässt. Diese Einstellung in sich tragend, nimmt uns Evlin mit auf eine Reise, die uns die verschiedenen Gesichter des Widerstands auf beiden Seiten der Grenze vorstellt und uns einen einzigartigen Einblick in das außergewöhnliche Seelenleben hinter dem ersten großen Sieg gegen ISIS gewährt.

title: Resistance Is Life

overview: Desde un campo de refugiados en la frontera turco-siria, Evlin, una niña de 8 años, representa la resistencia de Kobane, su ciudad, contra militantes de ISIS. En medio de la trágica guerra de Siria, su historia da esperanza.

title: 抗与命

title: Resistir es vivir

title: 抗與命

character: Self

character: Reporter(voice)

job: Executive Producer

original_title: Resistance Is Life


title: Shadi

type: Poster

status: Released

overview: The last call for the flight to Stockholm is announced over the speakers. Shadi stands outside the gate and holds her mothers skirt as tight as she can. The mother caresses Shadis braided hair, and then tears her fingers apart from her daughter, and a man forces Shadi onto the plane. Shadi is eleven years old and all alone on her way to an unknown world. She ends up at an orphanage for unaccompanied children in Stockholm. But flashbacks from the war and nightmares make it hard for Shadi to tell the difference between reality and fantasy. The only thing she wants is to be with her mother again. And so one night she hears her mothers voice in the hall.

title: Shadi

title: Krigsduvor

overview: Shadi, 11 år, tittar ut genom flygplansfönstret. Hon har precis slitits ifrån sin mamma på flygplatsen och är ensam på väg mot en okänd värld. När hon till slut hamnar i ett hem för ensamkommande flyktingbarn utanför Stockholm har hon svårt att skilja på verklighet och fantasi. Det enda hon vill är att få vara med sin mamma igen och på nätterna hör hon mammans röst i sina drömmar. Krigsduvor är en film om separation, längtan och mod.

character: Shadi

type: Cast

character: Alexandra

character: Leila

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

original_title: Krigsduvor

original_language: ku

title: Shadi

country: US

production_countries: IQ SE


title: What the Wind Took Away

overview: "We, the Yazidis, became doves. Doves without wings", says Hedil. Stranded with her family in a Yazidi refugee camp in Eastern Turkey, she reminisces about her former life in Northern Iraq and recounts the horrors of her escape. The film follows two families' attempts at normality in an otherwise miserable place. (ML)

title: What the Wind Took Away

original_title: What the Wind Took Away

production_countries: TR AT


title: Meryem

overview: Filmed during the battle of Kobani, this film reveals the women at the heart of the fight against IS. With stoical perseverance and the aid of American airstrikes, these women are leading the fight for freedom.

title: Meryem

original_title: Meryem


title: Tired

type: Backdrop

overview: It's 2004, and the news that Saddam Hussein has died sends shock waves through the Middle East. Shaho is the son of an elderly man of Iranian Kurdish heritage; the old man's health is failing him after suffering a stroke, and he's convinced he doesn't have long to live. Shaho, his father, and their family have been living in an Iraqi refugee camp for a while, but with the passing of Saddam, Shaho believes the time is right for them to return to Iran, where father can spend his last days in the land of his birth. However, as Shaho is making plans for the trip back to Iran, his cousin Sheelan visits the family for the first time in twenty years; her parents fled to Sweden when she was a child, where she's now a physician, and she wants her dying uncle to join her there where he'll be safe and well cared for.

title: Tired

title: ماندوو

title: ماندوو

overview: Het is 2004 en het nieuws dat Saddam Hoessein is overleden, veroorzaakt schokgolven door het Midden-Oosten. Shaho is de zoon van een oudere man van Iraans Koerdische afkomst; De gezondheid van de oude man laat hem in de steek nadat hij een beroerte heeft gehad, en hij is ervan overtuigd dat hij niet lang meer te leven heeft. Shaho, zijn vader en hun familie wonen al een tijdje in een Iraaks vluchtelingenkamp, maar met het overlijden van Saddam gelooft Shaho dat de tijd rijp is om terug te keren naar Iran, waar vader zijn laatste dagen in het land kan doorbrengen. van zijn geboorte. Terwijl Shaho echter plannen maakt voor de reis terug naar Iran, bezoekt zijn neef Sheelan de familie voor het eerst in twintig jaar; haar ouders vluchtten naar Zweden toen ze nog een kind was, waar ze nu arts is, en ze wil dat haar stervende oom zich daar bij haar voegt, waar hij veilig en goed verzorgd zal zijn.

character: Shaho

character: Old Man on The Road

character: Injured Boy

character: Shilan

character: Jamila

job: Music

department: Sound

job: Production Manager

department: Production

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Compositor

department: Crew

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Boom Operator

job: Assistant Director

job: Colorist

original_title: ماندوو

title: Mandoo

country: IQ

production_countries: IR IQ


title: Anniversary

SALVEGER (Anniversary), 2018 - Trailer

site: Vimeo

type: Trailer

overview: Ahmet and his 9-year-old daughter Rozerîn commemorate the anniversary of Rozerîn's mother's death - in their own special and loving way.

title: Salveger

overview: Ahmet und seine 9-jährige Tochter Rozerîn begehen den Todestag von Rozerîns Mutter – in ihrer ganz eigenen speziellen und liebevollen Weise.

title: Anniversary

character: Ahmet

character: Rozerin

job: Screenplay

job: Sound Designer

job: Cinematography

job: Producer

job: Sound

original_title: Salveger

title: Anniversary


title: Commander Arian

Commander Arian - Official Trailer

site: YouTube

overview: On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.

title: Commander Arian

title: 커맨더 아리안

overview: 시리아에서 전쟁이 발발한 뒤, 쿠르드 저항군 소속의 여성들이 YPJ라는 여성 수호부대를 결성했다. 서른 살의 지휘관 아리안은 성폭력 피해자들을 무자비하게 대했던 현장을 어린 나이에 목격한 인물로, 현재는 부대를 이끌며 ISIS를 소탕하는 데 사활을 걸고 있다.

title: Командирка Аріан

overview: Серед спустошеного сирійського степу 30-річна військова командирка Аріан очолює жіночий батальйон, що воює проти Ісламської держави. Для неї збройний опір це єдиний спосіб вивільнення з глибоко патріархального суспільства. Поранена п’ять разів Аріан змушена давати раду видимим і невидимим наслідкам війни та шукати нових способів боротьби за жіночу свободу.

title: Comandante Arian, una historia de mujeres, guerra y libertad

overview: Aan de frontlinie van de Syrische oorlog leidt een 30-jarige commandant haar vrouwelijke bataljon om een door ISIS gecontroleerde stad te heroveren en wordt ernstig gewond, waardoor ze zichzelf opnieuw moet definiëren in dit krachtige verhaal van emancipatie en vrijheid.

character: self

job: Script

title: فەرماندە ئاریان

production_countries: DE ES SY


title: Cano

title: Cano

overview: İnsanın önce yaşayan bir varlık (hayvan) olduğu ve sosyal anlamda medeniyetlerin karışması kadar karmaşık olduğu unutulmamalı. Filmde mitoloji, tarih ve hayal gücü, bu fikir etrafında birleşiyor.

original_title: Cano


title: Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise

overview: As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.

title: Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise

overview: Als zwölfjähriges Mädchen weigerte sie sich, verheiratet zu werden. Dreißig Jahre später kämpft Nuriye Kesbir immer noch, jetzt als gesuchte Anführerin einer Guerilla-Bewegung. Warum wendet sich eine Frau von der Ehe und der Mutterschaft ab, um sich für einen Weg zu entscheiden, der stattdessen zu einem Kampf um Leben und Tod führt? Ein Film über eine dickköpfige kurdische Frau, die wegen ihrer persönlichen Entscheidungen auf einer Straße ohne Wiederkehr landete. Sozdar, die ihr Versprechen hält" ist ein offenes Porträt der Hintergründe und Motive von Nuriye Kesbir, einer der Führer der kurdischen Widerstandsbewegung PKK. Die Filmemacherin Annegriet Wietsma folgte Kesbir auf ihrer bemerkenswerten Reise, die in einem niederländischen Gefängnis begann und in den rauen Bergen des Nordirak endete.

title: Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise

character: herself

character: himself

original_title: Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise


title: Daf

overview: This documentary shows us how a Daf elaborated. It's about a family that all their children are blinded and they're running their family business. They're making Dafs which is an Iranian hand percussion musical instrument and nowadays it's mostly played in Kurdish folk songs.

title: Daf

title: Даф

original_title: دف


title: In Between

key: ZElgaVzMcpY

name: Di Navberê De - Arada / Fragman 8 Mart'ta Sinemalarda

overview: Osman can understand his mother tongue, Kurdish, but cannot speak it, and he speaks Turkish, which happens to be his second language, but cannot understand it. As a result of this condition of his, Osman starts to fail at handling two concurrent tasks. Just like he cannot respond to his patrons while he is working, he cannot engage in a conversation with his friends whilst they are having coffee together. Even though he wants to get married, he fails at sustaining a long-term relationship with women whom he meets. Osman’s life starts to change after a customer tells him that she could help him with his obsession.

title: Arada

overview: Osman ana dili Kürtçeyi konuşamayıp anlayan, ikinci dili Türkçeyi de anlayamayıp konuşan birisidir. Bu özelliğinden dolayı zaman içinde iki işi aynı anda yapamaz hâle gelir. Çalışırken müşterilere cevap veremediği gibi arkadaşlarıyla kahve içerken sohbete katılmayı da beceremez. Evlenmek istemesine rağmen bu sorunundan dolayı görüştüğü kadınlarla kalıcı bir ilişki kuramaz. Osman’ın hayatı, bir müşterisinin onu bu takıntıdan kurtarabileceğini söylemesiyle değişmeye başlar.

title: In Between

job: Art Direction

department: Art

original_title: Di Navberê De

title: In Between


title: Shouted from the Rooftops

SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS / 2017

type: Featurette

overview: A romantic story set in the heart of a war-torn Kurdish town. When Sherin leaves to fight, her anguished lover Ferhat stays behind awaiting her return.

title: Shouted from the Rooftops

character: Farhat

character: Dilin (Shirin's sister)

character: Shirin

character: Peshmarga 2

character: Peshmarga 1

character: Father

character: Mother

job: Line Producer

job: Camera Operator

job: Director

original_title: Shouted from the Rooftops

production_countries: IQ NL


title: Kejal

overview: Kejal, a young Kurdish woman studying in Tehran returns home when her brother is killed in the mountains, leaving behind debts for lost goods. Forced by circumstance, Kejal becomes a Kulbar (Carrying goods on her back, Every mistaken step may chance upon a landmine. They are hunted like wild animals. And in the name of what? To earn just 10 dollars a day!) - a woman in a man's world.

title: Kejal

character: Ashkan (Kejal's brother)

character: (Uncle) Hasan

character: (Uncle) Naseh

character: Rojin

character: Kejal

character: Kejal's Mother

character: Sirwan

character: Kak Soleyman

job: Writer

original_title: کەژاڵ

title: Kezhal

title: کژال

country: IR


title: A Silent Traveler

overview: Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).

title: A Silent Traveler

character: Azid

character: Taho

character: Moho

character: Silo

character: Kurde

character: Simko

job: Music

original_title: De zwijgende reiziger

title: A Silent Traveler

title: کاروانەکێ بێدەنگ


title: Dayan

overview: Set a day after the Syrian war began, Dayan paints a portrait of the thousands of refugees unable to return to their families once borders were established by terrorist groups. Seiban, an aging Syrian father living in exile with his family, has to make a choice: part with his special-needs children in order to escape, or keep them close and put the family's lives at the mercy of the military. As he struggles to decide, the world around his family crumbles under the weight of war, leaving little hope for their survival.

title: Dayan

character: Siban

character: Dayan

character: Masoud

job: Director of Photography

job: Production Manager

job: First Assistant Director

job: Sound Recordist

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: دایان


title: Snow

title: Kar

overview: Erol Mintaş’ın kısa filmlerden oluşan Anne ve Oğul üçlemesinin ikinci halkası Kar, Doğubeyazıt’ta küçük bir köyde, bir anne, oğlu ve torununun ilişkisine odaklanıyor. Kaybettiği oğlunun yasını tutan annenin ölmeden önceki son arzusu, bir avuç kar.

title: Snow

character: Sanem

character: Ahmet

character: Hodja

character: Zine

job: Assistant Director

job: Co-Producer

job: Screenplay

original_title: Berf

title: Kar

country: TR


title: The Last Season: Shawaks

overview: "The Last Season: Shawaks" revolves around an extended Shawak family whose life is marked by seasonal migration.

title: The Last Season: Shawaks

title: Son Mevsim: Şavaklar

overview: Göçebe bir halkın, Şavakların yaşam döngüsünü perdeye taşıyan Kazım Öz, yazın yaylalarda kışın köylerde, baharı yollarda karşılayan güçlü bir geleneğin, doğayla savaşmadan yaşayan insanların hayatlarına tanık ediyor bizi.

character: Self

job: Producer

job: Cinematography

job: Editor

original_title: Demsala dawi: Sewaxan

title: دوایین وەرز: شەوەخان


title: Roza – The Country Of Two Rivers

overview: The documentary is telling the Rojava Revolution, with stories of Assyrian, Kurdish, Arabic people. This people are subjected to the ISIS attacks, on the other hand they are trying to build a communal system like democratic autonomy. This struggle is not easy in a region like Syria, where the war continues and showing the effects on people’s life.

title: Roza – The Country Of Two Rivers

job: Sound

job: Lighting Director

department: Lighting

original_title: Roza – Welatê Du Çeman

title: Roza, İki Nehrin Ülkesi


title: Like a Stain

overview: A solitary Street Vendor navigates his daily routine in a bustling city, his Megaphone his constant companion. He grapples with his inner turmoil and the relentless daily pressures of the urban landscape surrounding him. Can he keep a balance?

title: Like a Stain

character: Street Vendor

character: Customer 2

character: Taxi Driver 3

character: Taxi Driver 2

character: Customer 1

character: Customer 3

character: Taxi Driver 1

character: Taxi Driver 4

job: Set Supervisor

job: Sound Designer

original_title: وەک پەڵەیەک


title: Iraq Sulaymani 0610

name: iraq.sulaymani. 0610---short film trailer تیزەری کررتە فیلمی عێراق. سلێمانی.٠٦١٠

overview: a worker in a factory in Sulaimaniyeh (Kurdistan region in Iraq)has been chosen for a mission and we are witnessing of him while doing his duty. But Is the worker just a worker and Is the camera just a camera?

title: Iraq Sulaymani 0610

job: Story

job: Writer

job: Director

original_title: عێراق سلێمانی ٠٦١٠


title: Well

overview: In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them out of helicopters, or burying them in acid-filled wells. Thousands were murdered/disappeared by paramilitary forces—such as Jitem and Hizbul-Kontra—that were financed and supported by the state, though they have always stuck to the line: “We didn’t do it.”  The documentary looks at the case of seven people, including four children, who were disappeared from the town of Kerboran [Dargeçit] in 1995, and tells the story of their families’ tireless search for their bones

title: Bîr

overview: Un documental sobre la vida y la lucha de los atrapados entre la vida y la muerte.

title: Il pozzo

overview:
Negli anni '90 migliaia di persone in Kurdistan, attivisti politici, studenti, sindacalisti, "scomparvero" dopo essere state detenute e interrogate sotto tortura. In molti casi i loro assassini eliminarono i corpi gettandoli fuori dagli elicotteri o seppellendoli in pozzi pieni di acido. Sono centinaia gli ‘scomparsi’ in Turchia e Kurdistan, assassinati da forze paramilitari come il JITEM (corpo segreto della Gendarmeria) e Hizbul-Kontra (per molti versi predecessore dell’ISIS) che sono state finanziate e sostenute dallo stato.
 Il documentario racconta il caso di sette persone, tra cui quattro bambini, scomparse nella città di Kerboran [Dargeçit] nel 1995 e l’instancabile ricerca delle loro famiglie per i resti dei loro cari.

title: Well

job: Mix Technician

job: Music

original_title: Bîr

title: Well

title: Il pozzo

country: IT

title: بیر


title: I Am the Revolution

overview: The inspiring story of three women risking their lives to incite political, activist, and armed uprisings in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.

title: I Am the Revolution

title: I Am the Revolution

overview: In mezzo alla guerra e al fondamentalismo, sono cresciute donne leader che comandano eserciti, organizzano la fuoriuscita delle altre donne dalla schiavitù, guidano forze politiche laiche e progressiste, andando villaggio per villaggio a sfidare i talebani. Queste donne praticano la democrazia più avanzata che possiamo immaginare nei contesti meno favorevoli possibili. Queste donne testimoniano la rivoluzione necessaria ovunque.

job: Assistant Editor

job: Publicist

job: Colorist

job: Supervising Editor

job: Camera Operator

job: Post Production Coordinator

job: Executive Producer

job: Director of Photography

original_title: I Am the Revolution

production_countries: AF IQ IT SY US


title: Snail

overview: Three young Iranian boys along with a smuggler are clandestinely smuggling across the Iran-Turkey border. The smuggler only passes masculines through the border. In the middle of the way, he suddenly realizes that one of the passengers is hermaphrod.

title: Snail

original_title: Snail


title: Xalko

overview: A small village in Turkish Anatolia slowly becomes a ghost town as families move abroad, leaving behind a group of dedicated women who keep things running, in this rare document of the hidden consequences of migratio  Xalko is Director Sami Mermer’s birthplace, as he returns from his new home in Canada to reconnect with his relatives. Along with the help of Co-director Hind Benchekroun, the film is afforded an intimacy and honesty that doesn’t come easy as the women divulge the details of their private lives and frustrations. They eschew sentimentality for a grounded look at an increasingly unfamiliar way of life.

title: Xalko

title: Xalko

overview: Ce film raconte l’histoire de Xalko, l’un des rares villages kurdes situé au cœur de l’Anatolie centrale en Turquie. Aujourd’hui, déserté par ses hommes qui ont tous émigré en Europe ou en Amérique, Xalko existe encore grâce à celles et ceux qui gardent le fort tout en espérant le retour de leurs maris et de leurs pères absents, qui parfois ne reviennent jamais ou alors pour quelques jours seulement en été. Ce documentaire observe la vie qui se poursuit à Xalko et questionne l’avenir de ce village menacé par l’exode. Ultimement, Xalko porte un regard insolite sur la migration du point de vue de ceux qui restent.

title: Xalko

overview: El director Sami Mermer torna al seu poble kurd d’Anatòlia per retrobar-se amb els seus familiars i veïns. El poble està habitat majoritàriament per dones els marits de les quals van emigrar i no han tornat.

job: Producer

original_title: Xalko


title: Pale Mirrors

overview: Shobo is a young woman who is in a misery situation for having a child, a decision that has a particular impact on her life and her people.

title: Pale Mirrors

job: Editor

job: Sound

job: Screenplay

original_title: ئاوێنە بزرکاوەکان


title: Not a Male but Female

overview: Kerim is 17 years old orphan boy who lives in a country. He has identity conflicts under his uncle's pressure.

title: Not a Male but Female

original_title: Kurneqîz


title: My Paradise

overview: A filmmaker goes back to his hometown in Syria 25 years later with a picture of his old classmates. He will try to discover what happen to all of them after the war changed the faith of all of them.

title: Rojava - Mein Paradies

overview: Ein altes Klassenfoto führt Regisseur Heydo 25 Jahre später zurück in seine Heimat Serê Kaniyê (Ras el-Ain) im kurdischen Teil Nordsyriens. Das Foto bildet die multiethnische Gesellschaft aus Arabern, Kurden, Tschetschenen und Armeniern ab, die seit dem Ausbruch des syrischen Bürgerkriegs in unterschiedliche ethnische und konfessionelle Lager gespalten ist.  Nicht alle seiner Klassenkameraden findet Ekrem Heydo wieder – einer wurde getötet, andere flohen und ließen Besitz und Freunde zurück. Die Reise in die Vergangenheit wird zu einer Suche nach den Grundlagen des Zusammenlebens in einer politisch instabilen Region.

title: My Paradise

character: Almaza

character: Ara

character: Siyamed

character: Muzhar

character: Abid

job: Cinematography

original_title: Rojava - Mein Paradies

title: Bihuşta min

country: SY

title: جنتي


title: Dersim 1994

title: Dersim 1994

overview: Dokumentarfilm von Devrim Tekinoglu.

original_title: Dersim 1994


title: The White Sycamore

name: Çinara Sipî (Beyaz Çınar) (The White Scamore)

overview: The White Sycamore is a documentary that has a cultural aspect focusing on 'Zeynel Dede' (Zeynel Kahraman) who lives in a mountain village in Hozat/Dersim (a Kurdish city in the East part of Turkey), an extraordinary person, a master of music, instruments, lyric writing, stone masonry, wood shaping, animal breeding, beekeeping and also focusing on his very much talented children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

title: The White Plane Tree

overview: Zeynel Dede lebt in einem Bergdorf in Hozat/ Dersim. Der fast 100 Jahre alte Kurde ist vielseitig begabt und begegnet uns mal als Komponist, als Instrumentenbauer, mal als Holzmeister und Bildhauer und dann wieder als Viehzüchter, oder auch Imker. Unter vielen bekannten Liedern verbirgt sich seine Unterschrift. Seine künstlerisch und mit Sorgfalt hergestellten Truhen, die ursprünglich zur Aufbewahrung der Mitgift von jungen Mädchen vorgesehen sind, eilen ihrem Ruf voraus und werden immer noch gut behütet. Er stellt in seiner Werkstatt nicht nur die Baglama, Geige oder Cura her, sondern weiß sie auch zu spielen.

title: The White Sycamore

character: Himself

job: Writer

original_title: Beyaz Çinar

title: Çinara Sipî

production_countries: DE TR


title: Berfin

overview: Berfin is a young female guerrilla who has had to grow fast within Kurdistan war. As she tries to adapt to her new life at mountains peaks, she dives deep in her inner world seeking answers for her past. House raids, non-return leavings, the dead in the village square, the endless whispering of the elders and a mother who left her behind … Between her losses and the war in her country, Berfin takes the roads to pursue both her memories and her mother. A story of quest, war and longing; love, loss and struggle of a female guerrilla fighter of Kurdistan.

title: Berfin

overview: Der Krieg lässt die junge Frau Berfin früh erwachsen. Sie ist nun eine Guerilla-Kämpferin. Als sie versucht, sich an ihr neues Leben auf Berggipfeln anzupassen, taucht sie tief in eigene innere Welt ein, sucht hier nach Antworten für ihre Vergangenheit. Hausdurchsuchungen, Gewalt, Repression, die Toten auf dem Dorfplatz, das endlose Flüstern der älteren Schwester mit der Mutter, die sie zurückgelassen hat, an die sie sich immer wieder erinnert. Eine Geschichte von Suche, Krieg und Sehnsucht, Liebe, Verlust und Kampf einer Guerilla-Kämpferin aus Kurdistan.

title: Berfin

character: Besta (Berfin's Mother)

character: Berfin's Childhood

character: Berfin

character: Evde

character: Berfin's Grandmother

job: Director

original_title: Berfîn

title: بەرفین

production_countries: FR IQ SY


title: Hope

name: Hêvî movie trailer | Mohammad Shaikhow | short movie Festoval Cinéma Arabe

overview: Running from the war, Hêvî (‘hope’ in Kurdish) and Walat await the human trafficker who will drive them across the border in the freezing cold. Beyond the mountains the couple will be safe, but they have a ways to go. Once they are on their way, the driver tells Walat to cross the border on foot. Hêvî stays behind with him.

title: Hêvî

overview: Hêvî und Walat, ein junges kurdisches Flüchtlingspaar, treffen einen Menschenschmuggler, um die Grenzen zu einem Ort der Freiheit zu überschreiten.

title: Hope

title: Hêvî

character: Walat

character: Hevi

character: The Human Smuggler

job: Associate Producer

job: Co-Writer

original_title: Hêvî

production_countries: FR QA SY


title: Navber

overview: Sarya, mother of a daughter, is around 30 years old and a housewife. After her husband was released from prison, he started his own business as a carpenter. When her brother's wedding day approaches, Sarya is forbidden from attending the celebration. There is a specific reason for this: Sarya's family are among the village protectors.

title: Between

overview: Sarya, Mutter einer Tochter, ist etwa um die 30 Jahre alt und Haufrau. Nachdem ihr Mann aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde, machte er sich als Schreiner selbständig. Als der Hochzeitstag ihres Bruders ansteht, wird es Sarya untersagt an der Feierlichkeit teilzunehmen. Aus einem bestimmten Grund: Saryas Familie gehört zu den Dorfschützern.

title: Navber

original_title: Navber


title: Buka Baranê

title: Buka Baranê

overview: Arya, eine siebenjährige kurdische Nomadin, lebt in den Bergen von Karacadag. Um ihre Herde vor dem Durst zu retten, beginnt sie ein Ritual.

title: Buka Baranê

character: Arya

job: Art Direction

job: Second Unit Director

original_title: Buka Baranê

production_countries: FR TR


title: Lîstikên Bé Sînor

title: Endless Games

overview: Ein Kind kehrt nach dem Krieg in seine Heimat zurück und behält den Blick auf das Leben voller Hoffnung, trotz aller Grenzen.

original_title: Lîstikên Bé Sînor


title: At Dawn

overview: Shakhawan's sister has been murdered by a young boy. so far, the killer's retaliation has been postponed twice due to the gathering of the villagers at the door and their request for the satisfaction of the decree. So they haven't been able to attend for enforcing the judge on the due dates. Tomorrow, at dawn, the killer will be executed, and Shakhawan is worried in case the people prevent his father again

title: دەمەوبەیانی

overview: Shakhawans Schwester wurde von einem kleinen Jungen ermordet. Die Vergeltung wurde, aufgrund einer Versammlung der Dorfbewohner und ihrer Forderung nach der Begleichung des Urteils, bisher zweimal verschoben. Sie waren nicht in der Lage, das Urteil zum angesetzten Termin durchzusetzen. Am morgigen Tag, in der Morgendämmerung, wird der Mörder exekutiert und Shakhawan befürchtet, dass die Leute seinem Vater erneut aus dem Weg gehen könnten.

title: At Dawn

character: Shakhawan

character: Shilan

character: Kawan

character: Old Woman at the Hospital

original_title: دەمەوبەیانی

title: دم صبح


title: Sevgi Dedigin

title: What You Call Love?

overview: Abdallah hatte seine Geburtsstadt Aleppo verlassen. Dort wuchs er vor dem Beginn des Bürgerkriegs in Syrien auf. Häufig fiel ihm das Leben aus persönlichen und politischen Gründen schwer. Als er eines Tages schlechte Nachrichten von seinem alten Freund Abu Khalil erhält, der krank geworden war, kehrt er 2015, viele Jahre später, zurück nach Aleppo…

original_title: Sevgi Dedigin


title: Guards

overview: Midas, his sister Rodin, and their friend Siyabend, three Yazidi children, live together in a camp in Turkey for refugees from Kurdistan. Every day, Midas devotes himself to the same mission: escaping from the camp to observe the border while waiting for their parents to return. One day, Midas's binoculars stop working...

title: Guards

overview: Midas, seine Schwester Rodin und ihr Freund Siyabend, drei Kinder aus den Eziden, leben zusammen in einem Flüchtlingslager in der Türkei für Menschen aus Kurdistan. Jeden Tag widmet sich Midas der gleichen Mission: aus dem Lager zu fliehen, um die Grenze zu überwachen und auf die Rückkehr ihrer Eltern zu warten. Eines Tages fallen Midas‘ Ferngläser aus.

title: Gardiens

overview: Midas, sa sœur Rodin et leur ami Siyabend, trois enfants yézidis, vivent ensemble dans un camp en Turquie pour les réfugiés originaires du Kurdistan. Chaque jour, Midas se consacre à la même mission : s'échapper du camp pour aller observer la frontière en attendant le retour de leurs parents. Un jour, les jumelles de Midas cessent de fonctionner...

title: Guards

original_title: Guards


title: War/Home

overview: The story of Aunt Rana, a woman who has lived in her home in Sur, Diyarbakır, for 20 years and refuses to abandon it despite the challenges posed by urban transformation and past conflicts.

title: Ev / Home / War

overview: Kurzfilm von Felat Erkozan.

title: War/Home

original_title: Ev / Home / War


title: Lîstok

title: Game

overview: Missbrauch notwendiger Werkzeuge und negative Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft.

original_title: Lîstok


title: The Many Lives of Kojin

overview: In a first-person documentary, Diako Yazdani, a political refugee in France, returns to see his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to a 23-year-old gay man from Kojin who seeks to exist in a society where he seems unable to find  its place.  With humor and poetry, the director delivers a moving portrait where the meetings of each other invite to a universal reflection on the difference.

title: The Many Lives of Kojin

title: Toutes les vies de Kojin - Être gay au Kurdistan

overview: Un réalisateur retourne voir sa famille au Kurdistan irakien pour leur présenter Kojin, un jeune homosexuel, dans l’espoir de faire tomber leurs préjugés. Entre humour et gravité, un portrait qui dit l’impossibilité de vivre sa différence dans une société verrouillée.

title: The Many Lives of Kojin

overview: In einem Dokumentarfilm aus der Ich-Perspektive kehrt Diako Yazdani, ein politischer Flüchtling in Frankreich, zu seiner Familie in den irakischen Kurdistan zurück und stellt ihnen einen 23-jährigen schwulen Mann aus Kojin vor, der in einer Gesellschaft, in der er seinen Platz zu finden scheint, nach Anerkennung sucht. Mit Humor und Poesie zeichnet der Regisseur ein bewegendes Porträt, in dem die Begegnungen der beiden Menschen zu einer universellen Reflexion über Andersartigkeit anregen.

original_title: The Many Lives of Kojin

title: Toutes les vies de Kojin

country: FR

title: The Many Lives of Kojin


title: Sidik and the Panther

name: Sidik and the Panther | Trailer | Available Now

overview: If Sidik manages to spot a leopard in his beloved mountains of Kurdistan, the area can be declared a protected nature reserve. Will that finally bring peace?

title: Sidik and the Panther

title: Sidik en de Panter

overview: In het ruige berglandschap van Koerdisch Noord-Irak woont de Perzische panter. Tenminste, daar is Sidik van overtuigd. Uitgerust met verrekijker en wandelstok trekt hij als een pelgrim door de heuvels en speurt hij naar eventuele bewijzen voor de aanwezigheid van deze luipaardachtige. Al vijfentwintig jaar lang. Mocht de panter hier inderdaad gesignaleerd worden, dan zou dat betekenen dat het hele gebied als beschermde natuur wordt aangemerkt. Hij hoopt dat daarmee ook een eind komt aan de bombardementen en moorden die de streek teisteren.

character: Herself

job: Music

job: Musician

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Sidik en de Panter

title: سدیق و پڵنگ


title: Shadow of the Kurdish Mountain

name: Shadow of the Kurdish Mountain official trailer     -            Sîka Çiya yê Kurmênc fragman

overview: Documentary on the Turkish invasion of Afrin in Northern Syria in 2018.

title: Shadow of the Kurdish Mountain

title: L’ombra della montagna curda

overview: Il regista e fotografo Azad Evdikê, di Serêkaniyê, è ad Afrin pochi giorni prima dell’attacco turco contro la città siriana. È venuto con una carovana di artisti per preparare una settimana di attività culturali che avrebbero dovuto celebrare la convivenza in pace delle tante nazioni, lingue e culture della città. La settimana artistica non si celebrerà mai. Azad vive e racconta in presa diretta le ore che precedono l’invasione dei turchi e dei loro alleati jihadisti e la fuga di decine di migliaia di persone costrette a lasciare le loro case per sfuggire al massacro degli occupanti.

original_title: Sîka Çiyayê Kurmênc

title: Shadow of the Kurdish Mountain

production_countries: IT SY


title: Pera Berbangê

overview: This film focused on the life of the people who were obligated to leave their hometown because of the war conditions in the region. Bıskov (button of trousers) earn his life by unchaining the domestic pigeons at the city centre. On the turning way to home, a few young guys call him to come their ruin. The things he experienced in this ruin and the words of his grand mother he heard when he arrive to home takes him to a turnout - the button of Trousers is broken

title: Pera Berbangê

character: Bışkov

character: Bışkov's Brother

character: Bışkov's Grandmother

original_title: Pera Berbangê


title: Cry of the Sky

overview: Cry of the Sky is loosely about events that led to the collapse of the first Kurdish revolution of 1961 and the chaotic recovery of the resistance movement during the second half of the 1970s. The storyline takes its point of departure from the current situation in the Kurdistan region with the ongoing war between the Peshmerga and a new foe, the Islamic State (ISIS/Daesh).

title: Cry of the Sky

character: Faranti

character: Elias

character: Shataw

character: Dino

character: Wajiha

character: Darwish Khalid

original_title: هەنسکی ئاسمان


title: The End Will Be Spectacular

type: Logo

overview: Zilan, a young woman, returns to her home town looking for traces of her dead brother, killed by ISIS. But her town is not what it used to be: social and political tensions have escalated into a state of war. The people have risen up to demand their political autonomy and the police and army repress them with brutal force. But the city’s resistance will go on for more than 100 days and Zilan will not remain a passive witness. Based on the diaries of those who died fighting and the testimony of survivors, who are the protagonists of the film, Çelik's first feature explores concepts such as hope, friendship, sacrifice and loss in the struggle for freedom of a group of young people.

title: The End Will Be Spectacular

title: 스펙타클 워

overview: 질란은 오빠 안독이 무장 테러단체 ISIS 손에 죽자 고향인 디야르바키르로 돌아간다. 그곳에선 쿠르드족의 저항군과 터키 정부군의 첨예한 대립 속에 민중시위가 잔혹하게 탄압을 받고 있었다. 쿠르드족의 주권과 자유를 되찾으려 목숨을 걸고 싸우는 민병대의 처절한 전투 장면이 이 작품에 고스란히 드러난다. 실제로 현재 진행 중인 국제적인 사건을 다루며 쿠르드족이 처한 심각한 상황을 영화에서 조금이나마 엿볼 수 있다.

title: 100 Dias de Resistência

overview: Zilan, uma jovem, retorna à sua cidade natal em busca dos vestígios de seu irmão morto, morto pelo Estado Islâmico. Mas sua cidade não é o que costumava ser: as tensões sociais e políticas se agravaram em um estado de guerra. O povo se levantou para exigir sua autonomia política e a polícia e o exército os reprimiram com força brutal. Mas a resistência da cidade durará mais de 100 dias e Zilan não permanecerá uma testemunha passiva. A partir dos diários de quem morreu lutando e de depoimentos de sobreviventes, que interpretam os protagonistas do filme, o primeiro longa de Çelik explora conceitos como esperança, amizade, sacrifício e perda na luta pela liberdade de um grupo de jovens.

title: フォートレス・ダウン 要塞都市攻防戦

overview: 2015年。トルコのディヤルバクルでは、トルコからの分離独立を求める反政府運動が活発に行なわれていた。兄弟を過激派組織“イスラム国”に殺された女学生ジランは故郷である町ディヤルバクルに帰るが、クルド人がトルコの軍や警察によって迫害されている事態を目の当たりにする。そんな悲惨な状況を見てジランは反政府組織のゲリラ活動に加わるが、兵士の数も兵器の量も圧倒的に多いトルコ側によって苦戦を強いられ続け……。

title: Финал будет впечатляющий

overview: После смерти брата от рук ИГИЛ девушка по имени Зилан возвращается в родной город, где народные демонстрации подвергаются жестоким репрессиям. В борьбе за свободу она не останется безразличным свидетелем.

title: 100 Días de Resistencia

overview: Una joven kurda regresa a Diyarbakır, donde su hermano ha sido asesinado por el Estado Islámico. La ciudad es un polvorín, y los levantamientos de los kurdos contra la policía y el ejército turco devienen en una fuerte y violenta represión.

title: Por la libertad

title: 结局终将壮烈

overview: 讲述一名叙利亚库尔德族少女为父报仇，加入到对抗极端分子和土耳其的战争中。

title: 烽火連天

overview:
一名年輕女子齊蘭，為了尋找遭伊斯蘭國殺害的哥哥的死前蹤跡回到故鄉，只是她的家鄉已失去從前的和諧，社會動盪和政治緊張都升級到戰爭狀態。人民站起來要求民主時，卻遭到警察和軍隊的無情鎮壓。這起抗爭持續了100多天，齊蘭不會成為沉默的見證者。
 切利克的第一部作品，以戰亡者的日記和劇中倖存主角的證詞為基礎，探討一群年輕人在爭取自由的鬥爭中所產生的希望、友情、犧牲和失去的東西。

character: Hogir

character: Zîlan

character: Nucan

character: Yılmaz

character: Çiyager

character: Doktor

job: Line Producer

job: Makeup & Hair

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Special Effects

original_title: Ji bo Azadiyê

title: لە پێناو ئازادیدا

title: Sonu Muhteşem Olacak


title: Home

overview: In a city ravaged by war, while society tries to cope with the consequences of war, a small girl found a peculiar way to survive. Home is the first short shot in the city of Raqqa, former capital of the Islamic State in Syria, after it has been liberated. The film reflects on the trauma of war through the powerful gaze of her young director, Syrian filmmaker Sevinaz Evdike, who has experienced it in first person.

title: Home

title: Mal

overview: En una ciudad asolada por la guerra, mientras la sociedad trata de hacer frente a las consecuencias de la guerra, una niña pequeña encuentra una forma peculiar de sobrevivir. Home es la primera fotografía corta de la ciudad de Raqqa, antigua capital del Estado Islámico en Siria, tras su liberación. La película reflexiona sobre el trauma de la guerra a través de la poderosa mirada de su joven director, el cineasta sirio Sevinaz Evdike, que lo ha vivido en primera persona.

character: Ali

character: Sara

job: Producer

job: Casting Director

job: Production Manager

original_title: Mal

title: ماڵ

production_countries: ES SY


title: Idomeni

overview: In eleven chapters, we follow two Yazidi girls from Iraq who hope to find safety and a new life in Germany. We meet them the first time at Idomeni, a temporary camp in Greece on the border to North Macedonia. There they live close together. The mobile phones are always nearby, as the only link to the family and friends in Iraq. Yasir’s wife has been a prisoner of ISIS for a year and a half, but hope of reuniting is rekindled when he receives a message about a prisoner exchange between ISIS and YPG forces. David Aronowitsch’s masterfully portrayed Idomeni is a touching portrait of children and adults during a period of waiting, hope and the deep wounds that will never disappear.

title: Idomeni

title: Idomeni

overview: Nadia och Nawaf har flytt ett folkmord tillsammans med sina barn. Yasir oroar sig för sin fru som sedan ett och ett halvt år tillbaka är fången hos IS, som tidigare dödat deras minsta son. De två familjerna är fast i den lilla grekiska byn Idomeni som blivit ett tillfälligt flyktingläger i Grekland vid gränsen mot Nordmakedonien. Idomeni skildrar en vardagskamp i en tid av tung väntan och är ett porträtt av människor – barn och vuxna – som tvingas finna sig i en verklighet som kommer att prägla dem för livet.

job: Editor

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Idomeni


title: Walnut Tree

name: تیزر فیلم سینمایی جدید درخت گردو با بازی پیمان معادی | Derakhte Gerdoo Movie Trailer

overview: Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...

title: Walnut Tree

title: Грецкий орец

overview: В основе фильма лежат подлинные события, произошедшие в 1987 году. Курдский город Сардаш и прилегающие сёла на ирано-иракской границе подверглись химической атаке иранских войск. Крестьянин Гадер, его беременная жена в трое детей попали под действие химического вещества. В деревне и сёлах поблизости царит хаос. Гадер должен в одиночку попытаться спасти жизнь своей семьи.

title: درخت گردو

title: 호두나무

overview: 1987년, 이란과 이라크 국경의 쿠르드족 도시인 사르다쉬트와 주변 여러 마을이 이라크군의 화학무기 공격을 받는다. 이 지역 주민 가데르와 그의 임신한 아내 그리고 3명의 어린 아이들이 화학물질에 노출되어 부상을 입는다. 가데르는 홀로 가족을 지키기 위해 노력한다.

title: 胡桃树

overview: 安宁的库尔德人城镇遭受化武袭击，喀迪尔带着怀孕的妻子和三个孩子踏上了逃亡之路，他们的命运将会如何？本片根据1987年伊拉克化武袭击伊朗城镇的真实历史事件改编，该袭击造成近万人伤亡，伤者留下永久性残疾。影片全方位地还原了这场惨烈悲剧。饰演男主角的佩曼·莫阿迪曾凭借《一次别离》获得柏林电影节最佳男主角银熊奖。本片荣获2020年伊朗曙光旬国际电影节最佳导演和最佳男主角两项大奖。

title: 胡桃樹

overview: 安寧的庫爾德人城鎮遭受化武襲擊，喀迪爾帶著懷孕的妻子和三個孩子踏上了逃亡之路，他們的命運將會如何？本片根據 1987 年伊拉克化武襲擊伊朗城鎮的真實歷史事件改編，該襲擊造成近萬人傷亡，傷者留下永久性殘疾。影片全方位地還原了這場慘烈悲劇。飾演男主角的佩曼·莫阿迪曾憑借《一次别離》獲得柏林電影節最佳男主角銀熊獎。本片榮獲 2020 年伊朗曙光旬國際電影節最佳導演和最佳男主角兩項大獎。

character: Qader

character: Homa

character: Doctor Ahmad

character: Maryam

character: Moslem

character: Mahdi

character: Mohsen

character: Ashkan

job: Writer

job: Original Music Composer

job: Production Design

job: Costume Design

job: Makeup Artist

original_title: درخت گردو

title: Derakhte Gerdoo

title: Ceviz Ağacı

title: Derakht-e Gerdu

title: دارگوێز


title: Blister

overview: A man hides his job from his wife. His wife wants to find out the truth, but it creates bigger problems for him. A disaster happens.

title: Blister

character: Seevan

character: Hana

character: Tinoo

character: Kazhal

character: Hootan

character: The Mother

character: The Guy in the Desert

job: Director

job: Screenplay

original_title: Taaval

title: Taval


title: Are You Listening Mother?

Teaser ARE YOU LISTENING MOTHER?

type: Teaser

overview: A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years of house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. The charge: supporting terrorist activities. From now on an invisible border runs through her garden in a Turkish village, which she repeatedly trespasses. Her older son is torn between obedience and rebellion. How far will he go to protect his mother from further punishment?

title: Are You Listening Mother?

title: Dinliyor musun Anne?

character: The Mother (Nezife)

character: Mustafa

character: Gendarme Officer

character: Deniz

job: Sound

job: Sound Mixer

job: First Assistant Director

job: Cinematography

job: Second Assistant Director

original_title: Are You Listening Mother?

title: دایکە، گوێت لێمە؟


title: Home & Key

overview: The story of this film is an aesthetic narration of the death of a Kurdish Family, along the 20th century.

title: Home & Key

character: The Father

character: The Son

character: The Girl

job: Assistant Production Manager

job: Art Designer

job: Producer

job: Visual Effects

department: Visual Effects

job: Gaffer

original_title: ماڵ و کلیل


title: Dyab

overview: 12-year-old Dyab is a Kurdish Yazidi boy living at Arbat refugee camp, after the horrendous attacks by the Islamic States on their villages at Shingal Mountains (Sinjar). However, Dyab’s dream is, to become a filmmaker and actor and tell the stories and sufferings of his people to the outside world.

title: Dyab

character: Himself

job: Writer

original_title: Dyab

production_countries: IQ GB


title: Once Upon a Time in Kurdistan

overview: Dunia is a 17-year-old girl. After her uncle raped her, she becomes pregnant and seeks help in one of the shelters in the Kurdistan region of Iraq/Sulaimani and secretly plans to have an abortion.

title: Once Upon a Time in Kurdistan

character: Dunya

character: Chia

character: Maryam Xan

job: Music

job: Continuity

job: Colorist

job: Production Manager

job: Camera Operator

job: Editor

original_title: ڕۆژێک لە ڕۆژان لە کوردستان


title: The Heavy Burden

name: Barê Giran (The Heavy Burden) The Heavy Burden's trailer

overview: AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war. After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary. So traumatized by the war Salih returns to Syria to recover his.

title: The Heavy Burden

title: Barê Giran

overview: Avdel, ailesini Mardin Belediyesi bünyesinde çalıştırılan yaşlı eşeği Bozo’nun maaşı sayesinde geçindirmektedir. Belediye meclisi Bozo’yu "emekli edince", Avdel işine devam edebilmek için genç bir eşek aramaya koyulur. Bu arada, Suriye'deki savaştan kaçıp Avdel'e sığınan yeğeni Salih, dayısına yardımcı olmak için, Suriye’de bıraktığı genç eşeğini aramaya koyulur.

character: Manager

character: Jiro

character: Salih

character: Avdel

job: Director

job: Screenplay

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Barê Giran


title: I flew you stayed

overview: The story of a woman who search for his father who had joined Kurdish peshmerga camps in 90s.

title: I flew you stayed

title: Ben Uçtum Sen Kaldın

overview:
İstanbul'dan Mahmur Mülteci Kampı'na uzanan bir yolculuk ile gerilla babasını arayan bir kadının hikayesinin anlatıldığı film, Mizgin Müjde Arslan'ın ilk uzun metraj belgesel filmi.
 Bir gün bir platform için Ermenistan'a giden, Irak'taki bir kampta büyüyen birileriyle tesadüf eseri tanışan bir kadının şans eseri babasını tanıyan insanlar ile birlikte yaptığı sohbetleri biraraya getiren yönetmen, filmde kadının babasının nasıl biri olduğunu, geçmişini, onu sevip sevmediğini sorgulamaya çalışır. Yaptığı bu yolculuk ise ona en yakın olan kişiler ile yüzleşmeyi zorunlu kılar.

original_title: Ez firiyam tu ma li cih

title: Ben Uçtum Sen Kaldın


title: Koma Dam

overview: Koma Dam is the story of women who have turned the top of an apartment block into their own space.

title: Koma Dam

original_title: Koma Dam


title: Arîn

overview: Solin is a pregnant Kurdish woman living in London with her old dad. Her dad gets lost without a word of English. Solin is chasing after the only thing he managed to describe: a clock tower.

title: Arîn

title: Arîn

character: Solin

character: Dad

original_title: Arîn


title: The Blue Girl

overview: In a remote village between the rocky mountains in Kurdistan, everyone is in love with football, but there is no plain field to play the game. The children decide to climb up the mountain in order to find somewhere to play the game.

title: The Blue Girl

title: Jouer sur le toit du monde

overview: Dans un village reculé entre les montagnes rocheuses du Kurdistan, tous les enfants sont amoureux du football, mais il n’y a pas de terrain plat pour jouer au football. Les enfants décident de gravir la montagne afin de trouver un endroit pour jouer au jeu…

job: Sound

original_title: کچی شین

title: The Blue Girl

title: دختر آبی


title: Black Horse Memories

overview: A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One of the girls in the group, Aseke, is killed on a mission and her friends decide to carry out the final request she made in her will. She had been brought up with a black horse, now in the remote Anatolian mountains, and her request is to bring the horse back so that they might meet one last time before she is buried. The arrival of the horse leads to some unexpected events.

title: Black Horse Memories

title: 黑马的记忆

title: Bîranîna hespa reş

title: 黑馬的記憶

character: Zaria

character: Vian

character: Elias

character: Khezr

character: Hemşire

character: Aseke

character: Aseke's Mother

character: Shahmaran

original_title: Bîranîna hespa reş

title: بیرەوەرییەکانی ئەسپە ڕەش

production_countries: IR TR


title: Believe

overview: Bahman is an 8-year old boy, who lives in the village with his nervous and strict mother. The school in the village is getting canceled this year due to low enrollment. Now, he has to cross the river every day to reach the new school. He faces a serious problem; Bahman has a fear of deep water and swimming.

title: Believe

job: Story

original_title: Borva

title: İnan


title: Stories of Destroyed Cities

overview: Kurds call it Rojava, or the West, the place where the sun sets on Kurdish lands: the north of Syria, the stage of the most violent war of our times, painted in blood by the mass-rape and mass-killings of the ISIS terrorist organization. It is here, in Rojava, in three destroyed cities, that three separate stories tell the story of how savage war destroys not only our cities, but our people, too. Sinjar, Kobanî and Jazaa are three towns that display the most destructive impact of modern war. All three are in the process of being rebuilt at the moment. The people who live here have transformed their tragedies into a determination to leave a better Rojava for future generations.

title: Stories of Destroyed Cities

job: Cinematography

original_title: Çîroka bajarên wêrankirî

title: Çîroka Bajarên Wêrankirî

production_countries: IQ SY


title: An Unbearable Pity

overview: Two village boys are very sick, they are foaming at the mouth, they are sitting near a huge well and they hate each other.

title: An Unbearable Pity

original_title: Heyfek Neragirbar

title: Heyfek Neragirbar


title: Siya Avê

overview: Siya Avê focuses on the story of the destruction of Hasankeyf, Dicle Valley and Botan Valley by questioning the experiences of two women who had to leave their village in the war period in 1990 and why the dam was built over their laments.

title: Siya Avê

original_title: Siya Avê


title: Ali, Look at the Horse

overview: Ali hasn't seen his uncle in a long time. Their first conversation echoes the sentences children memorize in school, revealing the tragic inadequacies of the education system.

title: Ali, Look at the Horse

original_title: Ali Ata Bak

title: عەلی, سەیری ئەسپەکە بکە


title: Zero Nine

name: (09) ZERO NINE Movie Official Trailer 2020

overview: A detective abandoned his daughter right after his wife's death for a governmental mission. This made her daughter angry. He risks his life to find his daughters missing best friend in order to fix their relationship. Their search leads them to face a deadly organ trafficking band who has blackmailed a doctor for harvesting the organs.

title: Zero Nine

character: Mikael

character: Alan

character: Jan

character: Aram

character: Sara

character: Liza

character: Fisherman

character: Sawsan

character: Mina

character: Dancer

character: Kidnapper

character: Mohammed

job: Sound Recordist

job: Production Assistant

job: Script Editor

job: Set Designer

job: Production Coordinator

job: Sound Designer

job: Production Design

job: Sound Editor

job: Other

job: Musician

job: Original Music Composer

job: Digital Producer

original_title: سفر نۆ

title: 09


title: Eyna Bejnê

overview: Her guerilla friends find out that Sakîne has never seen herself in a mirror. So they go on the quest to transport a tall mirror up into the mountains.

title: Eyna Bejnê

title: Eyna Bejnê

character: Sakîne

character: Doktor

character: Cudî

character: Saît

character: Piling

character: Rençber

character: Serleşker Bedrî

character: Serleşker Newroz

job: Mix Technician

job: Translator

job: Editor

job: Director

job: Writer

original_title: Eyna Bejnê

title: Boy Aynası

title: Big Mirror


title: Into the Fire

overview: In an area of Iraq destroyed by ISIS, Hana Khider leads an all-female team of Yazidi deminers in their attempts to clear the land of mines. Their job involves painstakingly searching for booby traps in bombed out buildings and fields, where one wrong move means certain death. Hana works for the Mines Advisory Group, an organization who are part of the ‘International Campaign to Ban Landmines’, a coalition awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

title: Into the Fire

job: Cinematography

original_title: Into the Fire

production_countries: GB US


title: The Heart of Raqqa

overview: Documenting the life of Mehmet Aksoy, a British-Kurdish filmmaker, a leading figure within the UK’s Kurdish community and an activist. Mehmet was tragically killed on 26th September 2017, at the age of 32, while documenting the war between Kurdish forces and ISIS in Raqqa, northern Syria.

title: The Heart of Raqqa

job: Producer

job: Production Manager

original_title: The Heart of Raqqa


title: Heval

overview: A Kurdish family is surrounded by criminals. They have only one bullet left to defend themselves and their daughter suffers from a chronic illness.

title: Heval

character: Zilan

character: Avin

character: Hozan

job: Music

job: Sound

job: Assistant Director

job: Script Supervisor

job: Assistant Camera

original_title: هەڤاڵ

title: Comrade


title: Yar

overview: In a part of middle east in eastern and northern Kurdistan live a group of people who have their own religion, perform their prayers and worship god with the use of the Tanbur. The Tanbur is an old musical instrument that has its own special ritual of crafting. Yar is a documentary about the process of crafting the Tanbur and how it is used for religious ritual of the Yarsans.

title: Yar

character: Self

job: Executive Producer

job: Sound Recordist

job: Sound Designer

job: Director of Photography

original_title: یار


title: The Sprinkle

overview: This film is based on the striking and deep-rooted Middle Eastern mourning tradition, Porkur, and how there is no gain in war through the inner tensions of a woman.

title: The Sprinkle

original_title: The Sprinkle


title: For Camera

overview: A Kurdish family is being recorded on camera, are we sure they are not aware of it?

title: For Camera

title: На камеру

overview: Курдская семья в западном Иране находится под наблюдением видеокамеры. Уверены ли мы, что они не знают об этом?

original_title: For Camera

production_countries: IR CL


title: Zhwan

overview: On the night of her engagement, Zhwan does not leave her room as she is awaiting the groom. When he enters, the bride argues about the demands that his family has made. They want her to take a test to prove her virginity. The groom's reaction shocks her.

title: Zhwan

original_title: Zhwan


title: Rojava

overview: Rihan is a young Kurdish woman who witness her father's death by the bullets of Daesh (ISIS). In turn it sparks her decision to give her life to defend her values and her own people.

title: Rojava

original_title: Rojava


title: Hush

overview: Zere and her family live in a small Kurdish village of the city of Ağrı. Zere has a particular interest in music and sounds of nature. She plays on whatever she finds at home that creates a rhythmical sound. But her family members and everyone else around her constantly complain about the noise. This film is about the silencing placed on the voice of a young girl.

title: Hush

title: Hush

overview: Zere en haar familie wonen in een klein Koerdisch dorp in de stad Ağrı. Zere heeft een bijzondere interesse in muziek en natuurgeluiden. Ze speelt op alles wat ze thuis tegenkomt waardoor er een ritmisch geluid ontstaat. Maar haar familieleden en alle anderen om haar heen klagen voortdurend over het lawaai. Deze film gaat over het tot zwijgen brengen van de stem van een jong meisje.

original_title: Hush


title: My Mother And I

overview: A coming-of-age film about a young girl who has just entered adolescence and is trying to change her fate as well as her mother's way of life.

title: My Mother And I

original_title: My Mother And I


title: Window

overview: In a prison, in the middle of the desert, two women who have never seen each other, one of whom is an ex-guerrilla painter, describes her relationship, dreams, hopes and aspirations of the prisoner as a subject of the future.

title: Window

original_title: Pace

title: Window

title: Finestra


title: The Call

overview: After sending her son off to the frontline of the war in Afrin, Cemile is left alone living at her home in Kobani. There is no other option other than waiting for her son whilst tending to a pot of flowers gifted by him. This film is about the pain and love of a mother who yearns for the return of their child.

title: The Call

original_title: The Call


title: Akam

overview: Akam is a 10 year-old Kurdish boy, who lives in a village away from the city. On the day of his sister’s wedding, he is told by his father to go beyond the village to bring back some bricks to fix the main pool in preparation for the wedding ceremony. When Akam returns, he faces a disaster no child should ever live through.

title: Akam

original_title: Akam


title: Birthday Parents

overview: A new migrant family, one thing is more challenging than it looks; celebrating the birthday of their 9 year old daughter. They join forces with a local Norwegian family and try to make ends meet for a birthday party. Based on the research project "Parenting Cultures in Plural Norway" by Uni-Research Bergen University, the film explores challenges of being a parent in a multi-cultural society formed with migration. The film focuses on birthday parties as a performance of parenting.

title: Birthday Parents

original_title: Birthday Parents


title: A Dance For Death

overview: There is a dance in Kurdistan, performed in mourning ceremonies. This tradition has not been performed in many parts of Kurdistan for the last 50 years. This documentary is about Ali, a Kurdish dance master, who decides to perform the dance for his friend who lost his life in 1980s war in Sanandaj.

title: A Dance For Death

original_title: A Dance For Death


title: The State We Are İn

overview: This piece is based on a copy of Picasso’s Guernica that was found in Yüksekova-Hakkari, one of the seven towns that have been destroyed in the state-led destruction in Southeast Turkey (North Kurdistan). Filmed candidly in the ruined city town of Yuksekova, the work is a contemporary reading of Guernica in the light of recent warfare in Kurdistan.

title: The State We Are İn

original_title: The State We Are İn


title: Command

overview: A soldier is struggling to obey his duty or listen to his heart during a military operation.

title: Command

title: Command

overview: Un soldado lucha por cumplir con su deber o escuchar su corazón durante una operación militar.

job: Screenplay

original_title: Command


title: Two Ends Of A Bridge

overview: A flag seller is having some trouble with his sales. As he walks to and fro on a bridge, trying to find more buyers, he receives a phone call that takes a turn for worse.

title: Two Ends Of A Bridge

original_title: Two Ends Of A Bridge


title: Harmonica

overview: A truck driver decides to come back home early for his wife’s birthday. Slowly he begins to realise that his wife is hiding something from him.

title: Harmonica

original_title: Harmonica


title: Slaughter

overview: Ghasem is forced to sell their cow to spend a hard winter in their village. As soon as the sale is made, the cow goes missing.

title: Slaughter

character: Qasim

character: Suraiya

job: Costume Design

job: Production Design

job: Digital Effects Producer

job: Sound Editor

job: Set Decoration

job: Makeup Artist

job: Boom Operator

job: Colorist

original_title: ذبح

title: سەربڕین


title: Illegal

overview: Reving and his friend Nechir, who lives in a conservative part of Kurdistan, pursue their usual fun, which is considered normal adolescent fun in other parts of the world, but a taboo in their society.

title: Illegal

title: قەدەغە

overview: Korte film: Reving en zijn vriend Nechir, die in een conservatief deel van Koerdistan woont, streven hun gebruikelijke plezier na, dat in andere delen van de wereld als normaal tienerplezier wordt beschouwd, maar in hun samenleving een taboe is.

character: Reving

character: Nechir

character: Reving's Father

character: Nechir's Father

character: Driver

character: Mother

job: Producer

job: Cinematography

job: Editor

job: Music

job: Sound

job: Production Manager

job: Director

original_title: قەدەغە


title: Portal

overview: Bakhtiar takes his showers in an old public bathroom. One night he finds a golden rock and takes this treasure for himself. Suddenly some mysterious events begin to happen.

title: Portal

original_title: Portal


title: Trousers

overview: During the modernisation law in Turkey where men must wear trousers and hats in the cities, in a small village in eastern Turkey (North Kurdistan) there is man named Dilo who wants to go to the city to purchase a mirror. Dilo has never been to the city before and in his village there is only one pair of trousers and a hat that villagers take turn to wear in order to make their trips. The men in charge is the chief of the village. Dilo decides to ask for permission from the chief to go to the city. However, it turns out that the modern clothes are too small for him.

title: Trousers

title: Trousers

original_title: Trousers

title: Pantor


title: Testament

overview: Kovan's grandmother just had her leg amputated by the doctors in the city. Kovan aged 14 gets assigned by his father to take the amputated leg to their village, and have a proper burial for it with the Mullah, in order for his grandmother to have her leg back in her second life. But on his journey the leg begins to rot, the smell getting worse and worse. Meanwhile Kovan becomes distracted by all sorts of situations which he encounters on the way.

title: Testament

title: Testament

overview: Kovan's grootmoeder heeft net haar been laten amputeren door de artsen in de stad. Kovan van 14 jaar krijgt van zijn vader de opdracht om het geamputeerde been naar hun dorp te brengen en er een fatsoenlijke begrafenis voor te hebben bij de Mullah, zodat zijn grootmoeder haar been terug kan hebben in haar tweede leven. Maar tijdens zijn reis begint het been te rotten, de geur wordt steeds erger. Ondertussen wordt Kovan afgeleid door allerlei situaties die hij onderweg tegenkomt.

original_title: Testament


title: My Cat

overview: Even when humans are at their most desperate, there will always be someone that cares about us unknowingly. But perhaps that someone is not human. This story is about the surprise that a cat gives to a young man at his worst time.

title: My Cat

original_title: My Cat


title: Flying Fishes

overview: A new teacher in the village begins to notice that one of his students and only girl in the class doesn't seem to talk much. One day he finds a cigarette burn visible on her hand.

title: Flying Fishes

title: Parvaz Mahiha

overview: গ্রামের স্কুলে নতুন যোগদান করা শিক্ষক লক্ষ্য করলেন যে ক্লাসের একটি মেয়েটি অন্য কারো সাথে কোনো কথা বলে না এবং সেই সাথে তিনি এটাও লক্ষ্য করন যে, মেয়েটির হাতে সিগারেটের পোড়া দাগ। এসব লক্ষণ শিক্ষককে মেয়েটির সম্পর্কে ভাবাতে বাধ্য করল।

job: Art Direction

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Parvaz Mahiha


title: The Summer Of The Swans

overview: A young disabled boy’s lifelong wish may be realised when his friends encounter a swan by the pond, which tradition says can heal everything. Together, the group of friends decide to make the journey together for this once in a lifetime chance.

title: The Summer Of The Swans

title: The Summer Of The Swans

overview: De levenslange wens van een jonge gehandicapte jongen kan worden gerealiseerd wanneer zijn vrienden een zwaan bij de vijver tegenkomen, waarvan de traditie zegt dat het alles kan genezen. Samen besluiten de groep vrienden om de reis samen te maken voor deze eens in je leven kans.

original_title: The Summer Of The Swans


title: Mountain

name: Mountain - Teymour Ghaderi for AIS OPEN 2020

overview: A short film about the universal joys and innocence of a child, no matter what situation they are in and where they are in this world.

title: Mountain

character: The boy

character: The man

job: Writer

job: Helicopter Camera

job: Sound Recordist

job: Sound Designer

job: Camera Operator

original_title: چیا

title: کوە


title: Song Of Hands

overview: The story is narrated by a young boy named Hiwa, who is fascinated with music. He joins the other children with this passion. One day, under the pressure of strict traditional and religious obligations, his father ends up breaking his musical instrument.

title: Song Of Hands

original_title: Song Of Hands


title: No Place Left

overview: This film tells the story about a young boy named Rodi, who lost most of his family at war in Kurdistan. He was sent to live with his only relatives, his grandparents in Istanbul. As Rodi begins to attend his new school, he finds it hard to feel a sense of belonging.

title: No Place Left

original_title: No Place Left

title: Ci nema


title: The Worn Beak Of The Crow

overview: A 60 year old woman, Shukran left her village when her husband passed away. She ends up moving in with her son Faruk in Istanbul. One of the four boxes of fresh cheeses that she brought from the village disappears during the journey. Shukran is determined to bury the remaining three boxes in the ground just as they did in the village to prevent them from going bad. With the absence of a missing cheese box and the search for a suitable land area in the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul, the relationship between the mother and son becomes strained.

title: The Worn Beak Of The Crow

title: Karganın Aşınan Gagası

overview: Korte film: Shukran, een 60-jarige vrouw, verliet haar dorp toen haar man overleed. Ze trekt uiteindelijk in bij haar zoon Faruk in Istanbul. Een van de vier dozen met verse kazen die ze uit het dorp heeft meegebracht, verdwijnt tijdens de reis. Shukran is vastbesloten om de resterende drie dozen in de grond te begraven, net zoals ze in het dorp hebben gedaan, om te voorkomen dat ze bederven. Met het ontbreken van een ontbrekende kaasdoos en de zoektocht naar een geschikt stuk land in de kosmopolitische stad Istanbul, komt de relatie tussen moeder en zoon onder druk te staan.

title: Karganın Aşınan Gagası

original_title: Karganın Aşınan Gagası

title: Karganın Aşınan Gagası


title: Life Gone With The Wind

overview: An elderly woman reminisces back to her childhood and her unfulfilled dreams when she discovers a kite in her garden.

title: Life Gone With The Wind

title: بابردوو

overview: Korte film: Een oudere vrouw haalt herinneringen op aan haar kindertijd en haar onvervulde dromen als ze een vlieger in haar tuin ontdekt.

character: Old Woman

original_title: بابردوو


title: The Other

overview: After his wife's death, a man makes a dramatic discovery that turns his life upside down.

title: The Other

title: O Outro

overview: Depois da morte de sua esposa, um homem religioso e tradicional suspeita que ela tinha um relacionamento com outro homem.

character: The Man

character: The Little Girl

character: Red Haired Man

character: The Grandmother

job: Screenplay

job: Assistant Camera

job: Costume Design

job: Assistant Location Manager

job: Still Photographer

job: Costume Coordinator

job: Production Design

job: Location Manager

job: Assistant Makeup Artist

job: Assistant Director

title: Digari

title: ئەوی تر


title: A Piece of Land

Making of A Piece of Land by Ranja Ali

type: Behind the Scenes

overview: Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.

title: A Piece of Land

title: پارچەیەک خاک

overview: Ahmed ontvlucht zijn door oorlog verscheurde thuisland Syrië en wordt in Irak gediscrimineerd. De mensen van de nieuwe samenleving waar hij zich bij aansluit, maken het hem onmogelijk om verder te gaan en een nieuw leven te beginnen.

character: Ahmed

character: Voice Over

job: Makeup Artist

job: Music

job: Translator

job: Cinematography

job: Producer

job: Director

original_title: پارچەیەک خاک


title: Serheldan

overview: Serheldan is a feisty 13 year-old Kurdish girl living in Beirut. Filming her everyday life, Serheldan attempts to document her identity and neighborhood. The footage is comprised of several interviews with family, friends and cats, shot with her best friend Christine

title: Serheldan

job: Supervisor of Production Resources

original_title: Serheldan


title: Holy Bread

overview: A documentary on the precarious lives of the koolbari, who carry goods on foot across the mountainous borders from Iran's northwestern Kurdish region.

title: Holy Bread

job: Editor

job: Camera Operator

job: Photoscience Manager

job: Visual Effects

job: Color Grading

original_title: Holy Bread

title: Nanî Pîroz


title: Vaveyla

overview: Delil and his wife Asya, live in a small village. Their son, Azad has a heavy convulse against the morning. There is heavy snowfall outside. So the roads are closed. Delil and his brother Lezgin, They try to bring Zınar to the hospital. Their cars do not move. The roads are covered with snow Delil and his brother Lezgin try to bring the Zınar to the hospital by carrying them on their backs.

title: Vaveyla

original_title: Vaveyla


title: Dialogue

overview: The film tells about the experience of Mother Besna who wants to reach her son just like other mothers whose sons are involved in the war that has lasted for many years in Turkey. So, this is a period documentary that describes Mother Besna's struggle for finding her son Enes in her mortally dangerous and trans-border journey.

title: Dialogue

title: Dialogue

title: Dialogue

overview: Bu film Kürdistan'da uzun yıllardır devam eden bir savaşa binlerce başka anne gibi oğlu dahil olan Besna Hanım’ın oğlu Enes’i bulma serüvenini, ölümüne tehlikeli ve sınırları aşan yolculuğunu yine O’nun dünyasından anlatan bir dönem belgeselidir.

character: Besna Xanim

character: Nevrûz Beg

character: Selim Yıldız

character: Gelî Wan

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Dialogue


title: Stories of Destroyed Cities: Şhengal

title: Stories of Destroyed Cities: Şhengal

job: Writer

original_title: Çîroka Bajarên Wêranbûyî: Singal


title: Sabaya

overview: With just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad and their group risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS as Sabaya (abducted sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.

title: Sabaya

title: Сабайя

overview: В картине рассказывается о группе людей, отправившихся в сирийский лагерь на Ближнем Востоке, чтобы, рискуя жизнью, спасти женщин, которых ИГИЛ удерживает как сексуальных рабынь.

title: Sabája

overview: Občanská válka v Sýrii přinesla utrpení mnoha lidem. Rozbité rodiny a ženy odvlečené do otroctví jsou jedním z mnoha zločinů extremistů, jimž musí civilní obyvatelstvo čelit. Mahmúd Rešo patří mezi ty, kteří se pokoušejí v nelehké chvíli bojovat za své bližní. Podniká vysoce nebezpečné cesty do nitra nepřátelského území, kde jsou drženy stovky jezídských žen proti své vůli jako služky i sexuální otrokyně (sabáji).

title: Sabaya

overview: Beväpnade med en mobiltelefon och en pistol riskerar flerbarnsfadern Mahmud, Ziyad och de övriga frivilliga medarbetarna på Yazidi Home Center sina liv för att rädda de yazidiska kvinnor som hålls fångna av IS i ett av världens farligaste flyktingläger, al-Hol i Syrien. Tillfångatagna, ofta i väldigt unga år, har de tvingats till år av förtryck och förnedring, och filmen följer hur deras öden vänds när de får återvända till livet.

title: סבאייה

overview:
דוקו שבדי בערבית וכורדית.
 המשאבים שלהם דלים להחריד, והאומץ בלתי נתפש: קבוצה של מתנדבים – חמושים בטלפונים סלולריים ואקדחים מיושנים – מנסים להציל ילדות ונשים יזידיות, שנחטפו לפני שנים על ידי דאעש כשפחות מין – "סבאייה". הן מוסתרות במחנה אל-הול בסוריה – מחנה פליטים ומתקן כליאה – שבקרב 73 אלף דייריו רבים (ורבות) מייחלים לשובה של "המדינה האסלאמית". מחמוד, העומד בראש המבצע, מנסה נואשות למצא בדלי מידע ולאתר חטופות. הוא נעזר בסבאייה לשעבר, המסכנות את חייהן וחודרות אל המחנה כדי לרגל. הבמאי הוגיר הירורי ("שולה המוקשים") מלווה את התהליך כולו: מהתכנון, דרך החילוץ המהיר והמסוכן ועד לשיקום הילדות והנשים, בחיק משפחתו של מחמוד – תהליך איטי ומלא חמלה.

title: 사바야

overview: 마흐무드, 지야드와 이들의 소속 단체는 휴대폰과 권총 하나만 들고 목숨을 걸고 나선다. 중동에서 가장 위험한 시리아의 알 홀 수용소에 ISIS의 사바야(성노예)로 갇혀 있는 야지디족(Yazidi) 여성과 소녀를 구하기 위해서이다.

title: 女孩们

overview: 仅凭一部手机和一把手枪，马哈茂德、齐亚德与雅兹迪家园中心的其他志愿者，冒着生命危险试图拯救被伊斯兰国成员囚禁为“萨巴亚（性奴）”的雅兹迪女性。他们潜入中东最危险的叙利亚阿尔霍尔难民营，常由身着罩袍的女性渗透者协助，多在夜间迅速行动以避免潜在暴力。在这部直击血肉、令人屏息的影片中，我们既体验到营地的紧张局势，也感受到家庭日常的慰藉——马哈茂德的妻子西哈姆和母亲扎赫拉以温暖关怀，帮助受创的女孩们褪去那套仅容己身、不容他者的意识形态黑袍。

title: Sabaya

overview: Amb un telèfon mòbil obsolet, una pistola i una furgoneta vella, Mahmud, Ziyad i la seva organització arrisquen la vida per rescatar les "sabaya", les dones yazidites, algunes encara nenes, segrestades per Estat Islàmic i convertides en esclaves sexuals. El director kurd-suec Hogir Hirori, que va rebre el premi a la millor direcció a Sundance el 2021, segueix de prop cadascuna de les missions impossibles que es converteixen en possibles, i amb la seva càmera els acompanya fins al rescat.

title: 女孩們

overview: 在暗無天日的歲月，精神隨著身體扭曲苟且，天地何止不仁？人魔同途互食，你只能認同與乞憐於本來最討厭的人。攝製隊追隨志願軍深入被視為中東最危險的集中營，在卧底的幫助下，他們晝伏夜行，用最簡單的裝備和極迅速的行動，避開暴力，成功把伊斯蘭國拘禁的雅茲迪族性奴拯救出來。影片平行剪接營內和回家後的生活對比，受害女子看似逐漸康復，但真正的意識形態毒害始終陰魂不散，令人持續不寒而栗。辛丹斯電影節世界紀錄片最佳導演獎。

character: Self

character: Self (Head of Yazidi Home Center)

character: Self (Mahmoud's Mother)

character: Self (Mahmoud's Wife)

character: Self (Mahmoud's Son)

job: Idea

job: Original Music Composer

job: Sound Mixer

job: Researcher

original_title: Sabaya

title: 女孩们

country: CN

title: سەبایە


title: Get Off

overview: A city, a bike, a girl... She had to hide herself from the police while she is riding her bike, but how it could be?

title: Get Off

job: Sound Recordist

job: Sound Designer

job: Set Decoration

job: Costume Designer

job: Assistant Director

job: Still Photographer

original_title: Get Off


title: Neighbours

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key: mSzkntElVEY

overview: A small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab school and has to watch his small world being radically changed in the course of an absurd nationalism.

title: Nachbarn

overview: In einem syrischen Grenzdorf in den frühen 1980er-Jahren erlebt der kleine Sero sein erstes Schuljahr. Er spielt freche Streiche mit seinen Kameraden, träumt von einem Fernseher, damit er endlich Cartoons schauen kann und muss gleichzeitig erleben, wie die Erwachsenen um ihn herum immer mehr von nationalistischer Willkür und Gewalt erdrückt werden. Mit feinem Gespür für Humor und Satire zeichnet der Regisseur Mano Khalil das Bild einer Kindheit, die unter der Assad-Diktatur auch leichte Momente findet. Der Film ist inspiriert von seinen persönlichen Kindheitserlebnissen und spannt die berührende Erzählung bis in die syrische Tragödie der Gegenwart.

title: Neighbours

title: 이웃들

overview: 80년대 초 시리아 국경 마을, 세로는 처음으로 학교에 가게 된다. 학교에는 쿠르드인 아이들을 범아랍의 충성스러운 동지로 키워내려는 목표를 가진 선생님이 새로 부임한다. 유대인들을 증오하라고 가르치는 선생님의 말씀은 세로를 혼동스럽게 만든다. 오랫동안 좋은 사이로 지낸 이웃이 바로 사랑스러운 유대인 가족이기 때문이다.

title: Voisins

overview: Dans un village kurde à la frontière syro-turque, Sero, 6 ans, découvre au début des années 1980 la violence d'un régime qui réprime la culture de son peuple.

title: جيران

overview: في إطار درامي ساخر، يلقي العمل نظرة على الطفولة في عالم الديكتاتورية والقمع والاستبداد، وكيف ينشأ الفرد بعواطف مثل الحب والصداقة والتضامن في مثل هذه الحياة.

title: Соседи

overview: Маленькая деревня на сирийско-турецкой границе в начале 80-х. Шестилетний курдский мальчик проводит свой первый год в арабской школе и видит, как его маленький мир радикально меняется под влиянием абсурдного национализма. С тонким чувством юмора и сатиры фильм рассказывает о детстве, в котором, между диктатурой и мрачной драмой, были и светлые моменты. Насколько возможна дружба, любовь и солидарность во времена репрессий и деспотии? Фильм навеян личными переживаниями режиссера, поэтому его горько-сладкие воспоминания связывают сирийскую трагедию с современностью.

character: Nahum

character: Djasim

character: Rosa

character: Shiro

character: Salim

character: Ali

character: Aram

character: Old Shiro

character: Sawda

character: Raoshan

character: Hannah 70

character: Hamo

character: Hannah

character: Shamsa

character: Wahid Hanouf

job: Music

job: Editor

job: First Assistant Director

job: Producer

job: Director

original_title: Nachbarn

title: غاااوو

title: Neighbors

title: Pacte Kopro

country: DE

title: Voisins

title: Nachbarn

title: جیران

title: Cîran


title: Lonely Trees

overview: Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers from Northern Syria’s region. Featuring a stunning scenery of poetic landscapes, the film is interlaced with stories of Kurdish and Assyrian songs that narrate the long history of love and suffering of this semi-autonomous region.

title: Gli alberi solitari

overview: La ricca eredità culturale ed artistica che rappresenta l’identità di queste nazioni assomiglia ad un quadro composto dalle varie tradizioni. La musica, in particolare, tramandata di generazione in generazione per migliaia di anni racconta le leggende di resistenza, amore, dolori, nostalgia, eroismo e coraggio delle divinità-madre che hanno sempre protetto la forma artistica originale che risiede nelle canzoni popolari e che difende la loro stessa esistenza contro il saccheggio, l’occupazione e i massacri.

title: Lonely Trees

original_title: Darên Bitenê - Dengbêj

title: الأشجار الوحيدة

title: The Only Trees

country: GB

title: Darên Bitenê


title: An Alley Behind Our House

overview: The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

title: Kolanek le Pisht mali Eme

overview: La spensieratezza di due ragazzine viene rovinata quando le famiglie decidono di sottoporle all’infibulazione.

title: An Alley Behind Our House

title: Kolanek le Pisht mali Eme

overview: Het verhaal van twee jongere meisjes die het slachtoffer werden van genitale verminking van vrouwen.

job: Cinematography

job: Camera Operator

job: Production Director

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Kolanek le Pisht mali Eme

title: An Alley Behind Our House

title: Ağaçli Yol


title: New Life

overview: "Nû Jîn", New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', depicts the daily life of women guerillas, Elif Kobanê (18), Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn, joining in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in their battle against ISIS. The documentary relates the ISIS assault of 15 September 2014 and the five-month resistance by the YPJ and People's Defense Units (YPG) through the lens of three women fighter

title: New Life

original_title: Nû Jîn

title: Yeni Yaşam

title: Nuova vita

title: New Women Live

production_countries: IQ TR


title: I Want To Live

overview: I Want to Live is a documentary on the lives of Kurdish Refugees from Syria, living in refugee camps in Kurdistan. Shot on location, it is set against the Syrian civil war and the ISIS (Islamic State) attacks upon Kurdistan. Told through the eyes of a young boy, Shndar, living with Thalassemia disease, he searches for an immediate treatment as he ages without losing hope, leaving his home amid simmering ethnic and religious hatred to live the life of a refugee. The film tells stories of daily life on the camp and outside of it. More than being a film on the life of refugees, it is an intimate character study and gripping tale of innocent lost amides wars, a meditation on life, death, war, peace, and tolerance.

title: I Want To Live

character: Shndar

character: Ahmed

character: The Father

character: The Mother

job: Writer

job: Sound

job: Songs

original_title: دەمەوێ بژیم


title: Goodnight, Soldier

overview: Ziné and Avdal are madly in love in spite of their families’ ancestral feud. When both parties finally set aside their differences and agree to their children getting married, Avdal is injured at the front and his inability to perform sexually casts a shadow over the wedding night. As this revives the family tensions, the newlyweds start exploring new forms of pleasure. Will their love overcome decades of conflict and tradition?

title: Goodnight, Soldier

title: Goodnight Soldier

overview: L'histoire d'un jeune couple dont la relation est remise en question lorsque le mari est rendu impuissant après avoir été blessé au front.

title: Goodnight Soldier

overview: Een jong stel wiens relatie op de proef wordt gesteld wanneer de echtgenoot impotent wordt nadat hij aan het front is neergeschoten.

character: Avdal

character: Ziné

character: Resul

character: Shero

character: Çimen

character: Miryem

character: Ziné's Brother

character: Waysi

character: İsmet

character: Doctor

character: Oil Company Worker

character: Sirwan

job: Director of Photography

job: Executive Producer

job: Screenplay

original_title: Goodnight Soldier

production_countries: FR IQ


title: The World’s Last House

title: A Última Casa do Mundo

overview: Um velho, respondendo cartas de pessoas e resolvendo seus problemas por muito tempo em uma cabana distante, está enfrentando o desafio mais estranho de sua vida; um convidado intrusivo com três balas na arma.

original_title: The World’s Last House

title: The World’s Last House


title: Imad's Childhood

name: Imad's Childhood | Trailer | Available Now

overview: A  five-year-old  Yazidi  boy  is  released  after  nearly  three  years  in  ISIS  captivity.  Profoundly  disturbed,  brainwashed  and  weaponized  by  the  abuse  he  endured,  he  displays violent hatred towards the world around him, and particular revulsion for his mother, who was held hostage alongside him. Imad considers himself to be an ISIS fighter and lashes out against children and adults alike in this intense horror film about a child possessed by terror. As menacing as his behaviour is, it is a mere imitation of the humiliation and brutality he was moulded by. He did exactly as he was  told  by  ISIS  in  order  to  survive,  and  now,  surrounded  by  other  survivors,  the  love of his family and help from a therapist, will he thrive?

title: Imad's Childhood

title: Imádovo dětství

overview: Imád byl jedním z tisíců jezídů, které v roce 2014 unesli islamisté. Po dvou a půl letech se vrací ke své matce. Ta ještě nestihla překonat svá traumata z té doby a už prožívá další peklo, přestože jsou s Imádem zase spolu. Syn ji odmítá a sám sebe považuje za jednoho z bojovníků tzv. Islámského státu. Je nezvladatelný a agresivní vůči ostatním dětem, dospělým i zvířatům. Lítost a soucit jsou mu cizí. Mluví arabsky, a s kurdskou rodinou si proto nerozumí. V jeho hlavě je normální to, co zažíval s IS. Pomůže mu psychosociální pomoc a snahy jeho blízkých stát se zase dítětem, kterým byl před tím, než ho odvlekli teroristé?

title: منداڵیی عیماد

title: Imada bērnība

character: Self

character: Self (grandmother)

character: Self (Mother)

character: Self (adolescent psychiatrist)

job: Sound Director

job: Colorist

job: Co-Producer

original_title: منداڵیی عیماد

title: Τα παιδικά χρόνια του Ιμάντ

country: GR

title: Dzieciństwo Imada

country: PL

title: Imads barndom

country: SE

title: Imad's Childhood

production_countries: IQ LV SE


title: Rewsen

overview: B, who has been stuck in a loop looses his perception of time. He believes that, if he travels to Rewşen, he would get out of this cycle. While looking for the minibus in the garage he  starts questioning  “what Rewşen is”.

title: Rewşen

title: Rewşen

title: Rewsen

job: Editor

original_title: Rewşen


title: Traces: People of the Peacock

overview: Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

title: Traces: People of the Peacock

original_title: Traces: People of the Peacock


title: Remaining in Derik

overview: The last three Armenians staying in the Derik district of Mardin, North Kurdistan.  In these lands which have hosted many civilizations in history, Armenians are one of the first nations arriving in Derik. They were vast in number and lived in friendship, peace, and love with the people of the region without any language and race discrimination. Now just three remain.

title: Remaining in Derik

original_title: Remaining in Derik

title: Derikte Kalanlar


title: I Will Wait

overview: A distressed young mother, Suhailah, struggles to cope with caring for her daughter and remaining afoot in life whilst also enduring anticipation of news from her husband who is a soldier. She stakes a bid to overcome all hurdles until his return but will he ever come back?

title: I Will Wait

character: Suhailah's neighbour

character: Mr. Khalil

character: Restaurant's owner

character: Suhailah's child

job: Production Manager

job: Graphic Designer

job: Art Direction

original_title: چاوەڕێ دەبم


title: Every Home is a School

overview: The story of families seeking to undo decades of repression and assimilation of the Kurdish language by taking matters into their hands. Now, every home is a school.  A banned language, a sealed school, children studying in their mother tongue at home, and families who convert their homes to schools. ‘Every home is a school’ is the story of defiant people who seek to revive and keep alive a forbidden language.

title: Every Home is a School

job: Director

original_title: Her Mal Dibistanek


title: Jiyana Rewsenbireki Kurd: Casimê Celîl

overview: Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located in Digor, Kars. The village and family life, which he longed to remember throughout his life, ends with the massacre they endured in 1918. During his long road to Erivan, Armenia, he lost all his family members. Left all alone, Casim was placed into an orphanage and was forced to change his name. To remember who he was and where he came from, every morning he repeated the mantra “Navê min Casim e, Ez kurê Celîlim, Ez ji gundê Qizilquleyê Dîgorê me, Ez Kurdim, Kurdê Êzîdî me”, which translates to: “My name is Casim, I am the son of Celîl, I come from the village of Kızılkule in Digor, I am a Kurd, and I am Yezidi”. He clings to every piece of his culture he can find, reads, and saves whatever Kurdish literature or art he comes across. As the year’s pass, Casim finds himself with an impressive collection of Kurdish culture and history.

title: Jiyana Rewsenbireki Kurd: Casimê Celîl

character: Xanima Rizgo

character: Casimê Celîl

character: Cemîla Celîl

character: Celîlê Celîl

character: Ordîxanê Celîl

job: Color Designer

job: Translator

job: Transcriptions

job: Scenario Writer

job: Sound Designer

job: Producer

original_title: Jiyana Rewsenbireki Kurd: Casimê Celîl

title: Casimê Celîl: Bir Kürt Entelektüelin Yaşamı

title: Casimê Celîl: Life of a Kurdish Intellectual


title: Dark Windows

overview: In a Yazidi village, a family of three endure a horrifying string of events as they try to protect their only child from the savagery of ISIS, who are now on their doorstep.

title: Dark Windows

overview: Em um vilarejo Yazidi, uma família de três pessoas passa por uma série de eventos horríveis enquanto tenta proteger seu único filho da selvageria do Estado Islâmico.

title: Dark Windows

title: Dark Windows

overview: In een Jezidi-dorp maakt een gezin van drie een reeks gruwelijke gebeurtenissen mee terwijl ze hun enige kind proberen te beschermen tegen de wreedheid van ISIS, die nu voor hun deur staat.

job: Director of Photography

job: Writer

original_title: Dark Windows


title: Convoy

overview: Here is Afrin. A city that was brutally invaded by Turkey. An animated style mural that highlights the inflicted ethnic cleansing and displacement from war.

title: Convoy

title: Convoy

overview: Hier is Afrin. Een stad die op brute wijze werd binnengevallen door Turkije. Een muurschildering in geanimeerde stijl die de toegebrachte etnische zuivering en ontheemding door oorlog belicht.

job: Visual Effects

original_title: Convoy


title: Şîn

overview: The family of the lost ones has returned back to their city following a flood caused by the Ilisu dam.  When the villages in Siirt Botan Stream were flooded by the Ilisu dam, some of the villagers were forced to leave their dead behind in the village. This is a story of those caught between the will of the dead and their own conscience.

title: Şîn

original_title: Şîn


title: Dance Of Love

overview: Dance of Love is about the life of an elderly couple. A wife who has been suffering from diabetes and Alzheimer’s for 16 years, hasn’t left her home in over seven years. Her husband takes care of her and the love for his wife leads him to paint all the walls of his backyard for her.

title: Dance Of Love

original_title: Dance Of Love


title: Dreams in the Depths

overview: A number of immigrants from different countries of the middle-east who deals with war, bad social conditions, and poverty. They are emigrated to make their dreams possible where they hope to find a new world beyond the oceans.

title: Dreams in the Depths

original_title: Dreams in the Depths


title: Karnica

overview: A beekeeper is trying to move north at the end of the summer. He has a wife with Alzheimer’s disease who is always lost in different places. Their children are looking for a solution and want to send their mother to a nursing home before their father moves. The old man is unsure of what to do.

title: Karnica

original_title: Karnica


title: The Stain

overview: A story of an old man who works in a cinema salo as a cleaner. His past life and the decisions he has made have resurfaced when he finds a stain on the cinema screen that represents much more.

title: The Stain

title: Pele

title: Pele

original_title: Pele


title: Yadê

overview: Young Dilan has fled the conflict of Rojava to the safety of a refugee camp in Southern Kurdistan. However, with the loss of both of her parents due to the war, she is under the care of her grandfather. Dilan tries to accustom to her new life and conditions within the camp.

title: Yadê

character: Dilan

character: Ahmad

character: Grandfather

character: Grandmother

character: Ahmad's mom

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Yadê


title: Bloodless Massacres

overview: Halabja city, known as The Martyr City of Halabja, is a city in South Kurdistan. In 1974, the city was bombarded by two aircraft belonging to the Iraqi Ba’athist regime. In 1988, the very same regime attacked the city using inhumane chemical weapons, killing thousands. This documentary has recovered two stories of two soldiers who were forced to leave their beloved city of Halabja, and fight for Iraq while the Ba’athists were slaughtering their loved ones.

title: Bloodless Massacres

title: Bloodless Massacres

overview: De stad Halabja, bekend als de martelaarsstad Halabja, is een stad in Zuid-Koerdistan. In 1974 werd de stad gebombardeerd door twee vliegtuigen van het Iraakse Ba'ath-regime. In 1988 viel hetzelfde regime de stad aan met inhumane chemische wapens, waarbij duizenden mensen om het leven kwamen. Deze documentaire heeft twee verhalen blootgelegd van twee soldaten die gedwongen werden hun geliefde stad Halabja te verlaten en voor Irak te vechten terwijl de Ba'athisten hun dierbaren afslachtten.

original_title: Bloodless Massacres


title: Harman

overview: Kurdish dance is a tradition of cultural heritage, performed in different ceremonies. With the explanation of the culture, this documentary analyses them from different points to uncover the secret hidden beauties. Watch as Harman narrates the philosophy of Kurdish dance and its traditional dresses.

title: Harman

original_title: Harman


title: Acorn

overview: In a Yazidi village based on the Shingal Mountain, a family go about their daily lives. To their ruin, ISIS carries out an attack and devastates them. The father has been killed and despite being seriously wounded, the mother hangs on to life in a bid to save her daughter.

title: Acorn

original_title: Berû


title: Isolated

overview: An unemployed father decides to take a risk to support his family.  Living in an impoverished and remote Kurdish border town, a father can no longer bear economic difficulties, its impact on his family, and their livelihoods. As a last resort, he decides to take a risk to support them.

title: Isolated

character: cast

original_title: Isolated


title: Sacrifice

overview: Haval and Dejin have a tense family history, with continuous problems from their past. Without the consent of their families, the two choose to marry and defy their parents who they see as backward thinking and controlled by the clan. However, something happens that makes them continue their ancestors’ disputes which leads to calamities

title: Sacrifice

title: Sacrifice

overview: Haval en Dejin hebben een gespannen familiegeschiedenis, met voortdurende problemen uit hun verleden. Zonder de toestemming van hun families kiezen de twee ervoor om te trouwen en hun ouders te trotseren, die volgens hen achterlijk denken en gecontroleerd worden door de clan. Er gebeurt echter iets waardoor ze de geschillen van hun voorouders voortzetten, wat tot rampen leidt

original_title: Sacrifice


title: Shirin and Farhad

overview: This animation short film is based on the old myths of Shirin and Farhad and has a critical look at the impact of the media on humans and native cultures.

title: Shirin and Farhad

title: Shirin and Farhad

overview: Deze korte animatiefilm is gebaseerd op de oude mythen van Shirin en Farhad en kijkt kritisch naar de impact van de media op mensen en inheemse culturen.

original_title: Shirin and Farhad


title: The Heart Sculpture

overview: A love story between a poor boy and a rich girl.

title: The Heart Sculpture

character: Halwest

character: Sherzad

character: Kawyar

character: Hiwa

character: Mam Burhan

character: Ali

character: Sherzad's father

character: Halwest's mother

character: Sherzad's mother

character: Hiwa's mother

character: Kawyar's mother

character: Nasrin

character: Halwest's son

character: Sherzad's son

character: Hiwa's son

character: Kawyar's daughter

character: Nasrin's daughter

character: Mohamed Youssef

character: Soran / Teacher

job: First Assistant Director

job: Camera Operator

job: Unit Production Manager

job: Second Assistant Director

job: Visual Effects Supervisor

job: Music

job: Cinematography

original_title: پەیکەری دڵ


title: The Crows's Land

title: The Crows's Land

overview: Ein Soldat hält einsam in seinem Wachturm wache. Immer wieder hat er kleine Flashbacks an seine Kindheit.

title: The Crows's Land

overview: Korte film: Een soldaat houdt alleen de wacht in zijn uitkijktoren. Steeds weer heeft hij kleine flashbacks naar zijn jeugd.

job: Sound

job: Editor

job: Director

job: Screenplay

job: Production Manager

job: Set Dresser

job: Makeup Artist

original_title: The Crows's Land


title: The Dance of Ali and Zîn

overview: The story is set in a tiny Kurdish village. Isa’s younger brother is murdered and brought back to his hometown. Two weeks after the funeral, his mother Zîn dreams of giving a wedding celebration for her deceased son. This strange idea sparks off a host of contradictory feelings within her, and between her and Isa and family members, who are still reeling from the trauma and grief of losing a brother. The family gradually proceeds into a grey area in their relationship. These ordinary people find themselves living in a psychological minefield wrestling on the planes between logic, norms, emotions, and irrationality.

title: Zîn ve Ali'nin Hikâyesi

overview: Hikâye küçük bir Kürt köyünde geçer. Yaşlı Anne Dayka Zîn, yakın zamanda öldürülmüş genç oğlu için, kalabalık bir düğün halayı kurmak ister. Bu tuhaf istek hem kendiyle çelişir hem de küçük bir kıyamet yaşamakta olan, Dayka Zîn’in birlikte oturduğu büyük oğlu İsa’yı ve diğer aile bireylerini de belirsiz yeni bir evrene taşır. Bu sıradan insanlar bu yeni dünyada kendilerini acı temelli duyguların takibi ve mantıksal düşüncenin terkinde bulurlar.

title: The Dance of Ali and Zîn

character: Zin

job: Producer

job: Mix Technician

job: Costume Design

job: Colorist

original_title: Govenda Ali û Dayka Zîn

title: سەمای عەلی و زین