Kurdish Movies

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

Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers...

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...

Three women, three wars, one dream. Lanja is a journalist in Iraq fearlessly fighting against honor violence. Maia in Abkhazia battles archaic...

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

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

In 2013, Selim Yildiz spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29.

With almost 800,000 men and 70,000 officers, the Turkish army is the second largest in NATO. This 1998 documentary by ZDF examines how this powerful...

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

Spearheading the 2017 battle for Raqqa against ISIS, the Kurdish forces of Rojava tried to put together a revolutionary political vision in the...

In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, innovative, experimental groups. To a deep love...

A child becomes seriously ill and eventually dies as a result of his father’s actions. The father overcomes guilt and grief, withdraws from...

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

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

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.

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

When his friends introduce him to a pretty girl, Aras falls in love with her and wants to propose to her.

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

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

Ali, a Kurdish refugee, travels to Athens in search of his missing brother. He discovers that his brother paid to be smuggled into Italy but then...