Kurdish Movies

"DEQ" is a legacy in Kurdish Culture. A bridge between Human and Nature and a way to find meaning of life.

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...

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...

This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space through the unique, yet...

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

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.

An underdog basketball team under the helm of an idealist school teacher from hard scrabble Diyarbakir in Southeastern Turkey goes beyond winning...

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

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

Facing societal pressure to restore her virginity before her upcoming wedding, a 22-year-old woman struggles to afford a hymen reconstruction...

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...

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...

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...

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

Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi border. When he was murdered in the 2011...

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

Shobo is a young woman who is in a misery situation for having a child, a decision that has a particular impact on her life and her people.

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...

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