Movies: Kurdistan

  • 2005
    Turtles Can Fly

    Turtles Can Fly (2005)

    Turtles Can Fly

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    Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall....

    Turtles Can Fly
  • 2021
    Sisters Apart

    Sisters Apart (2021)

    Sisters Apart

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    Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan....

    Sisters Apart
  • 2022
    Kobane

    Kobane (2022)

    Kobane

    8.22022HD

    Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on te...

    Kobane
  • 2016
    Refugee Poetry

    Refugee Poetry (2016)

    Refugee Poetry

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    The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home ...

    Refugee Poetry
  • 1965
    The Wild Men of Kurdistan

    The Wild Men of Kurdistan (1965)

    The Wild Men of Kurdistan

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    After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Be...

    The Wild Men of Kurdistan
  • 2023
    1988

    1988 (2023)

    1988

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    In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories....

    1988
  • 2020
    Walnut Tree

    Walnut Tree (2020)

    Walnut Tree

    6.92020HD

    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......

    Walnut Tree
  • 1935
    The Last Outpost

    The Last Outpost (1935)

    The Last Outpost

    61935HD

    During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level....

    The Last Outpost
  • 2019
    From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation

    From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation (2019)

    From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation

    72019HD

    Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain ...

    From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation
  • 2021
    Heval

    Heval (2021)

    Heval

    72021HD

    When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to fight ISIS in Syria, many see him as a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy. But others think he's a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a p...

    Heval
  • 2022
    The Matchmaker

    The Matchmaker (2022)

    The Matchmaker

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    A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to join ISIS. Using social media, she became a deadly matchmaker, recruiting a number of high-profile “jihadi brides” for ISIS militants in Syria: she alleg...

    The Matchmaker
  • 2018
    Mothering

    Mothering (2018)

    Mothering

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    Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her....

    Mothering
  • 2009
    American Herro

    American Herro (2009)

    American Herro

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    American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out the American dream. 30-years later, traveling the globe working for Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Diplomat Herro Mustafa invites her firs...

    American Herro
  • 2016
    Girls' War

    Girls' War (2016)

    Girls' War

    8.82016HD

    As the forces of ISIS and Assad tear through villages and society in Syria and Northern Iraq, a group of brave and idealistic women are taking up arms against them—and winning inspiring victories. Members of “The Free Women’s Party” come from Paris, ...

    Girls' War
  • 2024
    Where is Gilgamesh?

    Where is Gilgamesh? (2024)

    Where is Gilgamesh?

    9.22024HD

    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 faces his own inner demons....

    Where is Gilgamesh?
  • 2014
    Memories on Stone

    Memories on Stone (2014)

    Memories on Stone

    6.22014HD

    Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting...

    Memories on Stone
  • 2019
    Sidik and the Panther

    Sidik and the Panther (2019)

    Sidik and the Panther

    5.52019HD

    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?...

    Sidik and the Panther
  • 2017
    Lonely Trees

    Lonely Trees (2017)

    Lonely Trees

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    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 ...

    Lonely Trees
  • 2003
    A Little Bit of Freedom

    A Little Bit of Freedom (2003)

    A Little Bit of Freedom

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    In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor, an openly gay African youth with blond hair, makes his money by dealing drugs and dreams of one day living in Australia. Baran, meanwhile, is a Kurdish bicycle delivery boy living in con...

    A Little Bit of Freedom
  • 2014
    Come to My Voice

    Come to My Voice (2014)

    Come to My Voice

    5.52014HD

    In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter Jiyan are distressed. The only man in the household, Temo, the son of one and the father of the other, was arrested by the Turkish military. The comm...

    Come to My Voice