Kurdish Movies

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...

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...

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an...

When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective...

This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and ...

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 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...

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...

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's...

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...

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the...

Two village boys are very sick, they are foaming at the mouth, they are sitting near a huge well and they hate each other.

The story of this film is an aesthetic narration of the death of a Kurdish Family, along the 20th century.

The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.

A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. The feature documentary 'My War' probes...

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

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

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

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...