Kifn

2024

6.6

In the 2000s, several families in Sulaimani were recording videos and archiving their family memories in various ways. Peri, in her early teens, has just gotten married. Her mother passed away when she was very young, so she spent her entire life living with her aunt and cousin. Her aunt and cousin arranged her marriage to someone outside their family, which later caused significant problems in her and her husband's life. These issues eventually forced Peri to revisit the old family archives to find a way to resolve their troubles.

Sabaya

2021

Kurdish

7.1

♡ 9

100%

68%

Action

Documentary

Hogir Hirori Director

Mahmud Resho as Self Shadi

Shadi as Self Zahra

Zahra as self, Mahmud Resho's mother Siham

Siham as self, Mahmud Resho's wife

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.

The End Will Be Spectacular

2019

Kurdish

6.7

♡ 1

Ersin Çelik Director

Arif Demîr as Hogir

Sahire Ozhan as Nucan

Delîl Pîran as Yilmaz

Arjîn Baysal as Zilan

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.

The Rain Bride

2022

Kurdish

5.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Hussein Hassan Ali Director

Hussein Hassan Ali as

Silan Düzdaban as

Saman Mustefa as Peshmerge

Ferset Izzet as Peshmerge

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 society. Thus, Lori searches to express her feelings in dance.

The Exam

2021

Kurdish

6.8

♡ 2

100%

Shawkat Amin Korki Director

Adil Abdolrahman as Karim

Vania Salar as Rojin

Hussein Hassan Ali as Sardar

Avan Jamal as Shilan

Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.

Turtles Can Fly

2004

Kurdish

8.0

♡ 14

87%

Bahman Ghobadi Director

Marmar Alhilali as

Avaz Latif as Agrin

Emre Tetikel as Ali Reza

Soran Ebrahim as Satellite

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.

Iraq in Fragments

2006

Kurdish

7.1

♡ 3

91%

James Longley Director

Marmar Alhilali as

Mohamed Qasim Sainakh as

George W. Bush as Self

Mohammed Haithem as Self

An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

Bekas

2012

Kurdish

7.5

♡ 9

86%

Adventure

brother brother relationship

Drama

futebol

guerra do curdistão iraquiano

homeless child

órfão

superman

Karzan Kader Director

Suliman Karim Mohamad as Baba Shalid

Sarwar Fazil as Dana

Diya Mariwan as Helliya

Zamand Taha as Zana

Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.

Kobane

2022

Kurdish

7.2

♡ 7

Özlem Yasar Director

Asif Ahmed as Bijîsk

Silêman Ehmed Al-Ehmed as Çekdarê DAIS 3

Welîd Ehmed Al-Ehmed as Çekdarê DAIS 9

Rêger Azad as Mûsa

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 tenterhooks.

Resistance Is Life

2017

Kurdish

7.4

♡ 3

Documentary

Apo W. Bazidi Director Evlin

Evlin as Self Newroz

Newroz as Self Aladdin

Aladdin as Self Hemude

Hemude as Self

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.

Marooned in Iraq

2002

Kurdish

7.3

♡ 5

93%

82%

Drama

War

Bahman Ghobadi Director

Maryam Boubani as

Shilan Rahmani as

Hossein Rashid-Ghamat as The Soldier

Saeed Mohammadi as The Teacher

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.

Mediha

2023

Kurdish

7.3

♡ 2

Documentary

Hasan Oswald Director

Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad as Self

A teenager from northern Iraq, Mediha is a member of the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority. She’s also the survivor of an ISIS-orchestrated genocide in 2014. Through video diaries, Mediha provides an intimate account of her grief and trauma. The portrait that emerges leaves us in awe of the budding activist, who has already lived many lives and is nowhere near done.

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Bekas

Kobane

Resistance Is Life

Marooned in Iraq

Mediha