Kurdish Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Hana, a young woman, lives with an elderly husband but experiences love for the first time with young Ardalan. Following the village’s...

A man realizes he has a disease after killing his girlfriend.

Leyla Zana, the first woman Kurdish MP to be elected to the Turkish Parliament in 1992, was impisoned in 1994 for 15 years for speaking in Kurdish in...

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

"The Last Season: Shawaks" revolves around an extended Shawak family whose life is marked by seasonal migration.

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