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- Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
- Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
- The story is about two brothers want to travel to america and the adventures that they face in the journey.
- Sisters in Arms is a film of war on women's war.
- Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
- If Rojin doesn't pass the university entrance exam, she will have to go through with an arranged marriage. If she gets in, she'll be free. This is the pronouncement of her father.
- In the spring of 1988, in the depth of the Iraq-Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.
- Toren, the grandfather, son and grandchild, a three-generation story narrates about a persecuted and endangered people who went through Dozens of genocide campaigns.
- Bamo, a 40-year-old married actor, embarks on a difficult journey as his battle with alcohol jeopardizes his thriving career and reputation. His marriage teeters on the brink of divorce as his wife grapples with his relentless addiction.
- Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.
- Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.
- With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film tells of a childhood, which, between dictatorship and dark drama, also has its light moments. How much friendship, love and solidarity are possible in times of repression and despotism?
- Rojda, a German soldier and native Kurd, volunteers for a mission to train female Kurdish soldiers in Iraq to fight ISIS. No one must know that she is actually looking for her missing sister.
- Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
- An overview of the two-day doctor Mostafa Chamran life (commander of the Iran-Iraq War, who was educated in America and was expert in guerrilla warfare) this film about Defense for peace in the Paveh (city in Iran).
- Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
- A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a Museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he face his own inner demons.
- Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist.
- After the Ottoman Empire's collapse, Mumtaz Pasha, a Kurdish patriot, clashes with Bahjat Pasha, an Ottoman loyalist. In a shifting landscape, their destinies entwine, unveiling a web of loyalties and betrayals in the evolving Middle East.
- A detective abandoned his daughter for a governmental mission. He risks his life in order to fix their relationship. Their search leads them to face an organ trafficking band who has blackmailed a doctor for harvesting the organs.
- Year 2004, operation Iraqi freedom. Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, launched an insurgency. Karbala City Hall is cut off, leaving inside 40 Poles and 40 Bulgarian soldiers with supplies of food and ammo to 24h fight.
- Kejal, a young Kurdish woman studying at 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) - a woman in a men's world.
- During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
- An intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake's exploits as he risks everything-including his life-to tell his brothers' story. Often humorous, but sometimes downright lethal, it is a remarkable journey where Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq. Unprecedented access to US and Iraqi combat units take him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper "hide sites" in the Sunni Triangle, through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army. Ultimately, the film follows his brothers home where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents, siblings, wives, and children. It is a rare look at the bonds and service of our soldiers on the front lines and the profound effects their service has on the loved ones they leave behind.
- Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl who has recently returned from ISIS captivity, turns the camera on herself to process her trauma while rescuers search for her missing family members.
- When the mind flies
- A sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.
- Is about the tragedies in the kobani during and after the war against ISIS from the main character Of the film " musa the sniper " himself narrating about all the events respecting the resistance People of kobani on how they defeated their land and pride. The film is anecdote a story concerning the fighter's existence from occupying kobani by ISIS To last moments of libration of the Kobani .
- The kafkaesque story of a Kurdish refugee trying to follow his passion of beekeeping in Switzerland.
- Two homeless Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town's first movie theatre and decide they are going to live with him in the US. It's a long, dangerous road in the hands of ruthless human smugglers.
- The German doctor Martina is kidnapped by a Sunnite group, back in Iraq. Her confinement becomes an ordeal of her cognitive ability and her loyalty. In the end the meaningfulness of her own existence is questioned.
- Al Oula (the first) is the new Iraqi song from Mistress Rola to her fans in Iraq and Kurdistan, erotic and seductive as usual with her sexy dance in her beautiful see through dress and G string bikini.
- Five strangers, one nightmare, Hell reincarnated. Curse of Mesopotamia is the first english language genre film coming out of the Middle East. Starring a diverse international cast, it is based on the Newroz legend.
- 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.
- Based on true events, this movie depicts of the sacrifices made by the Iranian Air Force at the unset of the Iran-Iraq war. In particular the story of the fighter pilot Yadi Sharifirad based in second tactical airbase of Tabriz.
- HOUSE WITHOUT ROOF is about the journey of the siblings LIYA, JAN and ALAN who were born in the Kurdish area of the Iraq and grown up in Germany. The three of them want to fulfill their mother's last wish to bury her in her home village beside her husband who got killed in the war under the Saddam Hussein regime. On their nerve-wracking Kurdish-odyssey they are not only faced with their Kurdish extended family that does not accept the last wish of their mother but particularly with their own matters. In recent years they distanced from each other - everybody runs his own life - and whenever they are holding talks, they are mostly based on reproaches. In parallel with the run of their journey it is noticeably that in their home country the dimension of an awful conflict, that nobody can surmise, is heading for disaster.
- Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
- "26 Seconds" is a dramatic documentary short on the horrors of sex tourism in Thailand and Cambodia. "26 Seconds" is a poignant and unapologetic doc series in its exposure of a grave global dilemma of human trafficking. One child every "26 Seconds" is trafficked globally, the majority ending up in the sex trade. 26 Seconds features the heartbreaking stories of children and women from vastly different cultures experiencing horrifically similar traumas which highlights the active efforts of non-profit organizations that rescue victims, raise awareness to ultimately put a stop to this horrific, worldwide industry. The 26 Seconds doc series follows children and women from each of the target countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Iraq, India, Mexico, East Africa and right here in our own backyards in the USA. The story is told through the survivors' point of view, with support and additional perspective from expert testimony. It will deliver a compelling emotional journey in the hopes of raising worldwide awareness of this urgent issue, and will challenge each of us to stand up for innocent children and women all around the world.
- Haunted by the chemical attacks that claimed the lives of his family, a Kurdish sniper . Flees his homeland in search of a better life in the United Kingdom . But is caught up in a terrorist plot.
- Stories of Kurdish Refugees from Syria who are living in refugee camps in Kurdistan. The film was shot on location and takes place during the Syrian civil war and the ISIS attacks on Kurdistan. The story is told through the eyes of a young boy named Shndar, who has Thalassemia disease. He searches for immediate treatment while living as a refugee, leaving his home due to ethnic and religious hatred. The film depicts daily life within and outside of the refugee camp. A character study that explores themes of life, death, war, peace, and tolerance.
- One man's lonely struggle to rescue his seven orphaned grandchildren from a prison camp in Syria.
- Set in 2006 against the backdrop of intense sectarian war, Our River...Our Sky follows the stories of a small Baghdad community trying to find some semblance of normality and hope despite unpredictable violence, turmoil, and loss.
- After many controversies Poland's biggest military intelligence and counter-intelligence agency (commonly known as WSI) is liquidated, but its place is immediately taken by a new, secret military organization. Forced to deal with obscure cases, Its three members soon begin to doubt both their mission and the people they work for.
- A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy's name which is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor the men of religion at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. In the streets and all around them, they are surrounded by the chaos and crazy atmosphere of those days, with violence always on the verge of exploding.
- A portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.
- A documentary about Kurds, middle-east war and "Kurdistan", a nation with about 45m population and still without a country.
- An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.
- Lavin Jamal's fiancé went to the refugee camps in Kurdistan Iraq to get a report about the crimes which ISIS have done with Izadi Kurds especially the women and children. After a weeks in Iraq Lavin get disappeared and Jamal which himself is a journalist too going to Iraq to find her. After two weeks searching for her in Iraq he faces many problems and finally he can't find his fiancé
- An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdestan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.