Tag Archives: Kurdish

Things Unheard Of
6.4

Things Unheard Of

Jan. 28, 2023

Things Unheard Of

A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother’s face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into ...
Silent Trees
7.3

Silent Trees

Dec. 06, 2024

Silent Trees

After her mom’s tragic death on the Polish-Belarusian border a 16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa has to become a mother for her 4 younger ...
Kobane
9.4

Kobane

Sep. 20, 2022

Kobane

Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobane, from ...
Sabaya
7.1

Sabaya

Aug. 20, 2021

Sabaya

Film follows a group into Syria’s Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS ...
Turtles Can Fly
8.1

Turtles Can Fly

Jan. 07, 2005

Turtles Can Fly

Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to ...
Bekas
7.6

Bekas

Nov. 30, 2012

Bekas

This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a ...
Freedom Is Beautiful
0

Freedom Is Beautiful

Jun. 11, 2023

Freedom Is Beautiful

This is a deeply moving documentary about the lives of two asylum seekers who fled oppression in Kurdistan only to spend years incarcerated in ...
Red Heart
6.4

Red Heart

Apr. 29, 2011

Red Heart

The teenagers Shirin and Soran are in love, and want to marry, but Shirin’s father has arranged her marriage, and forbids them. On her ...
Gulîstan, Land of Roses
6.7

Gulîstan, Land of Roses

Aug. 23, 2016

Gulîstan, Land of Roses

They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these ...
North
6.7

North

Apr. 12, 2015

North

Bakur (North) is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on ...
A Time for Drunken Horses
7.7

A Time for Drunken Horses

After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are ...
The Exam
7

The Exam

Aug. 25, 2021

The Exam

Rojin is a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin’s unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to ...
The Rain Bride
4.3

The Rain Bride

Dec. 01, 2022

The Rain Bride

Young mother Lori must say goodbye to her husband, who decides to join the war against ISIS. She finds herself in a fight in midst her own ...
Come to My Voice
6.8

Come to My Voice

Dec. 05, 2014

Come to My Voice

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in Turkey, an old woman Berfe and her young granddaughter Jiyan are troubled when the only man in the ...
A Step into the Darkness
5.4

A Step into the Darkness

Sep. 17, 2009

A Step into the Darkness

An entire village in northern Iraq is wiped out when misinformed and panicked American soldiers stage a nighttime raid there. Release: Buyuk oyun ...
The Stain
0

The Stain

An old man cleans the cinema salon after the release of the movie and takes care of a stain on the screen. Release: Pel’e AKA Stain 2020 ...
Meteors
6.9

Meteors

Aug. 05, 2017

Meteors

They come at night and everybody steps out. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the coming hours, ...
I Want To Live
6.1

I Want To Live

Jan. 03, 2015

I Want To Live

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 ...
Son of Babylon
7.3

Son of Babylon

May. 01, 2009

Son of Babylon

A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, ...
Silent
6.8

Silent

May. 25, 2012

Silent

A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military ...