Movies: Mesopotamia Cinema Collective

"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 agai...

During the civil war in Turkey, many people were assassinated or disappeared while in custody. Mothers and families of the ones who disappeared in custody have held a demonstration every Saturday for the last 15 years. These mothers are called the Sa...

Simko, Bishkok and Taco are ten years old and the most mischievous children in the village. One day, they go to a mulberry tree down in the village. Taco starts to tell the story of a small lake a little further down the creek; he tells them that in ...

Peoples' Democratic Party(HDP), which had been founded under the leadership and with initiation of the Kurdish political movement, entered the parliament with a landslide election victory. HDP won many city and district municipalities in Kurdistan an...

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 param...