"kurdish" containing the tag

Where is Gilgamesh?
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Where is Gilgamesh?

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.

Safe Space
0h 13m
Movie 2024

Safe Space

This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space through the unique, yet common experiences of queers from different backgrounds, and focuses especially on nightlife and the issue of safe space there, which is a very critical area for queers to exist as they are.

Elaha
1h 50m
Movie 2023

Elaha

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?

1988
1h 20m
Movie 2023

1988

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.

Köy
1h 30m
Movie 2022

Köy

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are united by their Kurdish roots.

This Rain Will Never Stop
1h 42m
Movie 2022

This Rain Will Never Stop

This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.

Black Box Syria: The Dirty War
1h 28m
Movie 2020

Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.

detours while speaking of monsters
0h 18m
Movie 2024

detours while speaking of monsters

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, old gods are upset with us, and I am upset with my father.

Translating Ulysses
1h 11m
Movie 2023

Translating Ulysses

Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank's former house in Amsterdam. Will he be able to finish the translation of Ulysses and publish it?

Wild is the Spring
0h 21m
Movie 2021

Wild is the Spring

Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures moments in the lives of diverse ethnic communities who struggle to survive when life descends into chaos.

Rojava, l'avenir suspendu
0h 25m
Movie 2020

Rojava, l'avenir suspendu

A documentary on Royava's suspended future, while caught in the crossfire between Damas, Ankara, Tehran and Moscow.

Shadow of the Kurdish Mountain
0h 21m
Movie 2019

Shadow of the Kurdish Mountain

Documentary on the Turkish invasion of Afrin in Northern Syria in 2018.

Who Killed Lady Winsley?
1h 40m
Movie 2019

Who Killed Lady Winsley?

When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from Istanbul to solve the murder case. With the help of Azra, the beautiful local hotel tenant, he must confront stubborn members of the island community to untangle well-guarded family secrets and discover who the murderer is.

Brothers
0h 44m
TV Show 2010

Brothers

Comrades Mano and Sharan (Little Brother) travel from northern Iraq after Sharan's brother is shot by Iraqi militia forces. The Kurdish boys dream of a new life in Norway, but the new start does not turn out quite as they had imagined.

Girls of the Sun
1h 51m
Movie 2018

Girls of the Sun

Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.

My War
1h 38m
Movie 2018

My War

A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. The feature documentary 'My War' probes the complex motives behind the need to take up arms on someone else’s behalf.

Lonely Trees
0h 43m
Movie 2017

Lonely Trees

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 and Assyrian songs that narrate the long history of love and suffering of this semi-autonomous region.

Rojava, une utopie au cœur du chaos syrien
0h 45m
Movie 2017

Rojava, une utopie au cœur du chaos syrien

Spearheading the 2017 battle for Raqqa against ISIS, the Kurdish forces of Rojava tried to put together a revolutionary political vision in the Levant: gender equality, self-determination, democracy, popular self-defense, anti-sectarism... But their democratic confederalism, built on mine fields and war economy, found itself struggling between imperialist foreign forces and Turkish nationalism.

The Legend of the Ugly King
2h 2m
Movie 2017

The Legend of the Ugly King

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.

Binxet - Under the border
1h 35m
Movie 2017

Binxet - Under the border

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkish-Syrian border. On the one hand the ISIS, in the other Erdogan’s Turkey. In the middle the borders and one hope. This hope is called Rojava, only one point on the chart of a troubled region, a region of resistance and an example of grassroots democracy that speaks about gender equality, self-determination of peoples and peaceful coexistence.

Refugee Poetry
0h 4m
Movie 2016

Refugee Poetry

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 country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.

Traces: People of the Peacock
0h 53m
Movie 2016

Traces: People of the Peacock

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

Beside Heroes
Movie 2016

Beside Heroes

Wali, an ex-sniper, leaves Canada to fight the Islamic state. He meets two Americans: Rebaz and Zyrian. One is a veteran of the war in Iraq. The other is a homosexual idealist. They meet the Kurds, a welcoming people. Together, they will confront the fanatical Islamic terrorists. Beside Heroes, an uncensored documentary that tells the tale of three volunteer fighters who realized that to change the world, you have to act.

The Silence
0h 15m
Movie 2016

The Silence

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

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