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- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsRomen AvinianLala SarkissianIvan FranekIn a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsNazmi KirikEyam EkremBelçim BilginSet during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
- DirectorNizamettin AriçStarsNizamettin AriçBezara ArsenLusika HesenBeko is a young Kurd who lives in the Turkish part of Kurdistan.
- DirectorIbrahim SelmanStarsBangin AbdulkadirSaid AliUmet Ali
- DirectorKevin McKiernanStarsWilliam HartungJim McGovernKevin McKiernanA war of national liberation or a war against terrorism? Film-maker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative film shot in part by legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler. It's all in how you define "good" and "bad." "Good Kurds" are those in Iraq: they're Saddam Hussein's victims, whom we want to help. "Bad Kurds" are those waging an armed insurrection against Turkey, an American ally: they're at the receiving end of U.S. weaponry. McKiernan went to northern Iraq to cover the revolt against Saddam Hussein. Just a few miles away, no one was covering the hidden war in Turkey. McKiernan determined he would report the story independently. 'Good Kurds, Bad Kurds' brings a sharp clarity to a complex history, while providing disturbing insight into immigration practices and U.S. foreign policy.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsJülide KuralThe outcomes of the isolation system and its influence on human life will be told both by the victims and the witnesses.
- DirectorKudret GunesStarsIsmail BesikçiHediye DagliPiruzhan DogrulLeyla 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 the Parliament. Kudret Gunes' personal look at the life of Zana takes her to her birth-place, friends and exiled husband.
- DirectorYüksel YavuzStarsCagdas BozkurtNecmettin ÇobanogluLeroy DelmarBaran (Cagdas Bozkurt) is a young Kurd who was sent to Hamburg after his parents, who had helped Kurdish rebels, were betrayed and subsequently killed by the Turkish militia. Now that Baran is 16, he is no longer allowed to stay in Germany and faces the bleak prospect of getting deported back. Baran meets Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an African boy who has the same problem and traffics drugs to make some money. Chernor is openly gay and their friendship has sexual overtones from the beginning. Baran also has very little interest in girls, even though a marriage might solve his immigration-related legal trouble. Things get even more complicated when Baran spots the traitor of his family and wants to kill him. However, the man pleads for his life and Baran spares him. After this act of forgiveness, Cherno and Baran have sex together for the first time, making it clear to Baran that his interest in Cherno goes beyond friendship. Finally, both Cherno and Baran, who had made a desperate attempt to free Cherno, are arrested by the police.
- DirectorYilmaz ArslanStarsXevat GectanErdal CelikBulent BuyukasikTwo young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge
- DirectorHisham ZamanStarsRaouf SarajShler RahnomaKawa GilliA love story about two Kurds in the north of Norway.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsNazmi KirikBelçim BilginOmer ChawshinOn his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.
- DirectorShahram AlidiStarsOmer ChawshinMaryam BoubaniFakher Mohammad BarzaniAn elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdestan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsMarisa CommandeurFerhad FeqiRoj HajoAs era of Saddam ends in Iraq, far away in Germany, Azad, a Kurdish exile is glued to TV screen.
- DirectorShawkat Amin KorkiStarsShwan AttoofHamed DiyarHamajaga HilinInside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who has lost his legs from a landmine. Next door lives Hilin, who has not been able to express her feelings. One of the only sources of happiness for these people who live amid fear of poverty and bombings is soccer. Asu gathers together the Kurdish, Arabs and Turkish in order to hold a soccer match. Although they are of different races, they become close neighbors.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsJonathan ZaccaïGolshifteh FarahaniBilley DemirtasIn Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom
- DirectorDeeyah KhanDarin PrindleStarsNazir AfzalBobbie CheemaAndy CraigThis is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family for choosing a life for herself.
- DirectorÇayan DemirelErtugrul MaviogluStarsMohammad Saeed AbdiCemil BayikFehman HuseyinBakur (North) is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on its main subject, the PKK. The film follows the lives of the guerilla in three different camps on the Kurdish region (north) that lies within Turkish borders.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsNurgül YesilçayMert FiratVildan AtaseverSüsen lives in a troubled family, after they move to Izmir, her father left the home and she effected by all. She sail to a new life with her childhood love, Yusuf. But the marriage will not be an exit for her.
- DirectorErol MintasStarsFeyyaz DumanZübeyde RonahiNesrin CavadzadeA young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
- DirectorFerit KarahanStarsEzgi AsarogluRojin TekinGülistan AcetA woman works as electrical engineer in a construction site where mostly Kurdish workers are employed. After the death of her brother in a clash during his military service, she starts to behave the workers including the illegally employed worker man who is secretly in love with her, like enemies.
- DirectorAydin OrakStarsSenay AydinTurgay TanülküMurat ToprakThe life of the writer, intellectual, spokesman of democracy, and activist Musa Anter is now a movie rich in metaphors and images.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsFeyyaz DumanEvery saturday they sat infront of the Galatasaray Highschool, bringing us the bitter truths of Turkey, those who have lost dear ones.
- DirectorJano RosebianiStarsEstelle BajouZack GoldKurdo GalaliA recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Iraqi Kurdistan to find her mother's village, likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsTuncay AkdemirSelim BulutSabahettin DAGThis is the story of two women on opposite ends of a life-time, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
- DirectorShawkat Amin KorkiStarsAdil AbdolrahmanHussein Hassan AliAba RashA road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy's name which is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor the men of religion at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. In the streets and all around them, they are surrounded by the chaos and crazy atmosphere of those days, with violence always on the verge of exploding.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsNariman AnwarHelly LuvA documentary about Kurds, middle-east war and "Kurdistan", a nation with about 45m population and still without a country.
- DirectorEzel AkayCem TerbiyeliStarsAhmet Haluk ÜnalA documentary about children in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey.
- DirectorHisham ZamanStarsAli Bag SalimiZheer DurhanNazmi Kirik'Letter to the King' portrays five people on a day trip from a refugee camp to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. Each and every one of them has an agenda for their trip. All five will make decisive choices on this day, as they discover happiness, humiliation, or love--or fulfill a long-awaited revenge. The five stories are tied together by a letter written by 83-year-old Mirza, who wants to hand it over to the King personally.
- DirectorMahmod AhmadRonahi EzaddinSami HosseinA documentary made by eight children from Kobani and Shengal in refugee camps on the border of Syria and Iraq, who recorded their own life experiences and stories in the wake of brutal attacks by ISIS.
- DirectorSoner CanerBaris KayaStarsAlen Huseyin GursoyYavuz GürbüzSeyda SozuerRauf hopes to win over his big crush, the older Zana, with the help of the colour pink. But what does pink really look like anyways, and will he even be able to find it in his snowy little Kurdish village up in the mountains? Meanwhile, disturbing rumours sweep in from the outside world.
- DirectorSahin GökStarsTarik AkanMine ÇayirogluMenderes SamancilarThe mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.
- DirectorÖmer LeventogluStarsEzgi ÇelikKemal UlusoySezgin Cengiz
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsKorkmaz ArslanGolshifteh FarahaniSuat UstaBaran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsDeniz HasgülerOnur ÜnsalYildirim SimsekJin, a guerrilla, lives in a cave and decides to escape from the organization. She finds some civilian clothes and goes down from the mountain to the city. However, the city is no safer than the mountain.
- DirectorEzel AkayMehmet Ilker AltinayAydin BulutStarsArda TekinBehic AsçiBülent Emrah ParlakNine stories of resistance against solitary confinement of political prisoners in Turkey.
- DirectorKarzan KaderStarsZamand TahaSarwar FazilDiya MariwanThe story is about two brothers want to travel to america and the adventures that they face in the journey.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsBehrouz VossoughiMonica BellucciYilmaz ErdoganKurdish-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 finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
- DirectorAli AydinStarsErcan KesalMuhammet UzunerTansu BiçerBasri, a widower little out of retirement, walks every day along the railroad tracks to check the status. Aside from his work, his only thought is to have news of his son, who's been missing for many years, after he was arrested during student demonstrations in Istanbul.
- DirectorHüseyin TabakStarsAbdulkadir TuncerNazmi KirikLale YavasWhen 12 year old boy Veysel falls in love for the first time he decides to express his feelings by reciting a poem to his beloved in front of the class. But in order to do so he first needs to translate the lyrics into German.
- DirectorOrhan EskiköyZeynel DoganStarsBasê DoganZeynel DoganGulizar DoganWhen Basê finds herself revisited by voice recordings resurfacing from the past, she whispers to her son Mehmet things that he never knew.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsGaye GürselDurukan OrduSarkis SeropyanSumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country for a few months. The brief trip turns out to be the longest journey of her life.
- DirectorRiza KiraçStarsMacit KoperEsra RusanBerke Üzrek
- DirectorSeyfettin TokmakStarsUgur Baris MehmetogluSeydo CelikSelma AlispahicHakim and Faysal have come from Mardin to Istanbul to find work and escape to Germany where their cousin lives. After a short time they make close friends with Medina and her daughter Elma, refugees from Bosnia. With the aim of finding a cure for Elma who has a heart problem, Medina disappears from sight one day suddenly.
- DirectorKarzan KaderStarsZamand TahaSarwar FazilShirwan MohamadTwo homeless Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town's first movie theatre and decide they are going to live with him in the US. It's a long, dangerous road in the hands of ruthless human smugglers.
- DirectorSedat YilmazStarsAram DildarEngin Emre DegerKadim YasarTurkey's first Kurdish language newspaper is under siege. After exposing human rights abuses in Diyarbakir, the journalists become the target of increasingly ruthless government-sanctioned intimidation.
- DirectorMarian CrisanStarsAndrás HatháziYilmaz YalçinElvira RimbuA low-key satire that takes a droll approach to the serious subject of illegal immigration.
- DirectorCemal SanStarsNesrin CavadzadeErol DemirözNesrin has problems with government because of an organization she has involved with. She is searched by military. She escaped to her grandfather's house. They started to connect after all the years, they weren't together.
- DirectorMiraz BezarStarsSenay OrakMuhammed AlHakan KarsakDiyarbakir, in the late nineties: Two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street after their parents have been murdered by a member of a secret state security force.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsNegar ShaghaghiAshkan KoshanejadHamed BehdadIranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.
- DirectorPhilippe LioretStarsVincent LindonFirat AyverdiAudrey DanaBilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there.
- DirectorÖzgür DoganOrhan EskiköyStarsEmre AydinRojda HuzVehip HuzOne year in the life of a Turkish teacher, teaching the Turkish language to Kurdish children in a remote village in Turkey. The children can't speak Turkish, the teacher can't speak Kurdish and is forced to become an exile in his own country. On the Way to School is a film about a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsCahit GökHavin Funda SaçMehmet Selim AkgulA true-to-life epic of Kurdish students excitedly anticipating social revolution.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsAyça DamgaciHama Ali KahnCengiz BozkurtThree years ago, in real-life, Hama Ali, a charismatic actor from Iraq famous locally for his performance as Iraq's version of Superman, met Ayca on a film-set. He and Ayca, a fiery actress from Turkey, had a passionate love affair before returning to their respective homes.
- DirectorYüksel YavuzStarsAbdulkadir AyganBeriwanIsmail Besikçi
- DirectorJinda BaranHalil UysalDersim ZeravanrStarsJinda BaranBeritan CûdiÖmer HarranIt was shot on top of the mountains of Kurdistan, and the actors of this film are the real guerrillas themselves. This is a true story of an Egyptian woman named Beritan-Gulnaz Qeretas who joined the ranks of the Kurdistan freedom movement guerrillas.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsIsmail GhaffariAllah-Morad RashtianFarzin SabooniMamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsSoran EbrahimAvaz LatifSaddam Hossein FeysalNear the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsShahab EbrahimiFaegh MohamadiAllah-Morad RashtianDuring the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
- DirectorHandan IpekçiStarsSükran GüngörDilan ErçetinFüsun DemirelThe paths of 75-year-old retired judge Rifat Bey and little Hejar, who was left with a relative because he lost all his relatives in the operation carried out in his village, cross paths in Istanbul.
- DirectorAmo Bek-NazaryanStarsMaria TenaziHrachia NersisyanAvet AvetisyanImmediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsFeyyaz DumanNazmi KirikMizgin KapazanTwo young people named Ali and Faruk meet on the bus journey. this journey leaves them with an end that they know but cannot prevent.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAli SürmeliSanem ÇelikBülent KayabasA chief police inspector's first hand witness testimony impeaches someone of an intelligent service crime. Some hitman who is officially dead, but concealed by an intelligence agency, has been involved in a political treason plot.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsAyoub AhmadiRojin YounessiAmaneh Ekhtiar-diniYoung Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsSaid MohamadiBehnaz JafariBahman GhobadiItinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBehzad DoraniNoghre AsadiRoushan Karam ElmiIrreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsNazmi KirikNewroz BazMizgin KapazanMehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
- DirectorReis ÇelikStarsBerhan SimsekTarik TarcanSermin KaraaliThe struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia.
- DirectorÜmit ElçiStarsMeltem DoganayYalçin DümerLevent GünerBased upon an ancient epic poem by "Ahmad Khani", the film relates the story of Mem,a young Kurdish boy, who falls in love with Zin, the daughter of the governor of Butan,when the people are celebrating "Newroz", the ancient national ceremony of Kurds.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsTuncel KurtizAyse Emel Mesci KurayMalik BerrichiTeens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsGenco ErkalErkan YücelSerif SezerA urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorYüksel YavuzStarsFatma AdirOsman BaydemirMetin CansizWhat the women of a nation denied from all basic rights would do to oppose all kinds of oppressions? Hêvî is a film about 4 kurdish women found different answers for this question, covers their struggles and taking place in the cities of Berlin, Paris, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Ankara, Dersim, Amed/Diyarbakr alongside Qandil mountains. Hêvî talks about personal experiences of human rights defender and lawyer Eren Keskin who witnessed counless events where sexual violence as a war policy used against the women by the state perpetrators during the height of the war between the Kurdish Guerillas and Turkish States in the 90s. Politicians Gülten Kanak and Aysel Tuluk talks about the hunger strike protest took place in autumn 2012 which is participated by throusands of poltical prisoneers. They also talk about struggle of the Kurds in participating the democratik politics despite the continues pressure they receive from the state and the price they paid for. And its a journey into the life of a heroic former guerilla fighter Sakine Cansz, who was killed with her 2 female comrades in Paris in January 2013, short time before we plan to interview her for this film.
- DirectorYüksel YavuzStarsErdal YildizBülent SharifSenem Tepe
- DirectorYüksel YavuzThe first generation of migrants before the camera held by the second: Yavuz creates a portrait of his father, who never felt at home in Germany and returned to his Kurdish village after working for 15 years at a Hamburg shipyard.
- DirectorJano RosebianiStarsEnwer ShexaniKatrin EnderHussein Hassan AliSet in a fictional town of Kurdava, "One Candle, Two Candles" deals with the issue of arranged marriage and honor-related violence against women. Young Viyan, is forcibly given to wealthy older businessman, Hemmo. When on the wedding night she runs out of the bedroom and climbs a tree, refusing to sleep with him, the respected bridegroom loses face and becomes the laughing-stock of the town. In return, he punishes her by locking her up in the bedroom. The more the townsfolk mock him the more violent he becomes. To add fuel to the fire, a traveling young artist, Botan tries to reach out to her with a proposal to elope. "One Candle, Two Candles" is populated with colorful characters, including a few misfits with eyebrow-raising sense of humor; intertwined subplots; and a surprise ending.
- DirectorJano RosebianiThe documentary depicts the suffering of the Kurds and Iraqis under Saddam's regime through dozens of testimonies by survivors of Saddam's Anfal campaign on the Kurds and by Shia Arabs in the south of the country, as well as with US/UK coalition officials, forensics experts and human rights representatives, The documentary reveals 330 mass grave sites that had been uncovered throughout Iraq, containing as many as 300,000 bodies.
- DirectorJano RosebianiStarsKurdo GalaliPirshang BerzinjiChoman HawramiFive years following the infamous chemical and biological bombing of Halabja, Diyari, a Kurdish/ American good Samaritan, returns to his homeland to build an orphanage in what is left of Halabja. He meets Jiyan, a ten-year old orphan and a survivor of the chemical attack, doomed to live with a burn scar covering most of her right cheek.. A strong bond between the two ensues and later he names his orphanage after her. During the course of his stay in Halabja, Diyari meets a colorful bunch of townsfolk, many of whom remain physically and/or psychologically marked with the effects of the chemical agents. Among them is Jiyan's only living relative, Shérco, a twelve-year old who has also lost his family to the poison gas. While Shérco dreams of marrying her one day, Jiyan dreams of seeing flowers, a picture of which she finds on the back of a magazine. In addition to building the orphanage, Diyari brings a spark of hope and happiness to Shérco's and Jiyan's lives. However, this affair is short lived. As he leaves, the two orphans turn back to their lonely shells with very little light to look forward to - a familiar state of mind echoing throughout Halabja. Diyari departs with a promise to return, but now leaving a tearful Jiyan at the place where he first meet her - on a swing under a lonely tree on a small lonely hill.
- DirectorJano RosebianiStarsAl SapienzaSibel ErgenerKim SillIn a secluded mountain retreat screenwriters, Jack and Charlie work the clock to meet the deadline on their latest installment THE PERFECT ROBBERY, in which exploitation and violence are the dominant constituents. Among their trademark fictional subjects is Sally Singleton, a blond bimbo bombshell whom they have created and subsequently exploited. All goes well until bullet-ridden Sally miraculously appears at their doorstep.
- DirectorMano KhalilStarsDavid RouillerA portrait of David Rouiller, a young Swiss man who joined the Kurdish freedom movement PKK
- DirectorZirekStarsZirekSimon CohenGurgun ArganAhmet is a Kurd from Turkey. A refugee in Paris for over twenty-five years, he sends his son home to meet his grandfather. This five-day trip, which he mentally follows through the phone, revives his memories and anxieties. During his journey, the son rediscovers little by little his father, while the latter, remaining in France, traces in his memory the journey that led him to this permanent exile in France.
- DirectorJ.J. AlaniStarsDavid MoscowShiva RosePeter Van WagnerSparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsTuba BüyüküstünAhmed AdelCaner CindorukLisa is a young designer from Paris. She is starting to work as an independent designer and she wants to make a fashion show. A friend of her, a girl named Hêlin persuades Lisa to make the show in Diyarbakir, telling her that in there you can find the most beautiful girls to parade as models.
- DirectorMano KhalilStarsBarbara BienzIbrahim GezerNicole HohlThe kafkaesque story of a Kurdish refugee trying to follow his passion of beekeeping in Switzerland.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsMichel PiccoliMylène DemongeotMaurice BénichouBeneath the rooftops of Paris - The song is no longer the same. Beneath the rooftops of Paris today, it's sweltering... Above all, when one is very old, or very poor ... Dying slowly in servants' quarters, little by little. But embracing too. - Even now.
- DirectorAdnan AkdagStarsAdnan AkdagBedriye AkdagGalip Akdag
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsMitra HajjarAli NicksaulatSaid OrkaniThe struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
- DirectorHalkawt MustafaStarsAhmed AdelWrya AhmedDana AhmesTwo Kurdish little people in Iraq risk their lives to fulfill their dreams and that is to meet football hero Cristiano Ronaldo.
- DirectorShahram AlidiStarsBerrak TüzünataçDiman ZandiSenay AydinA group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsGeorges CorrafaceMarina KobakhidzeFatah SoltaniCheto is a Kurdish political refugee living in Paris. Despite his relations with a Frenchwoman, Christine, his goal was to marry a virgin and patriotic Kurd.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsHikmet DaragözHikmet KaragözTeatra Jiyana NûRevolving around an old man who refuses to leave his otherwise evacuated village in Kurdish Turkey, "Ax (The Land)" is a twenty-seven minute long short film about the forced deportations of Kurdish villages by the Turkish military.
- DirectorJamil RostamiStarsNzar SalamiRinas VoriaAbdol Hama JavanSetting: Sulaymaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in the 1940s. When his wife Kaleh goes into labor, her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife. By ill luck, he runs into the middle of a political demonstration and is seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as the ringleader. After a rigged trial, Jwamer is sentenced to ten years in prison. He serves his sentence and, as soon as he is set free, goes in search of his wife and child.
- DirectorRavin AsafStarsSafya AkdadShwan AttoofHama Ali ChanThe Smell of Apples. During the time of the apple harvest, three love stories cross into one another, apart from the american occupying power. YUSUF, a german pharmacist gets arrested, when it comes to a lack of medication.
- DirectorClarisse Hahn
- DirectorShiar AbdiStarsSelamoAbdullah AdoNujiyan Kilgi1980. Xelilo, a disturbed man, lives in an abandoned store and walks endlessly through the streets of Nusaybin, a Kurdish village in the south east of Turkey He is curiously being noticed by Cengo, a 12-year old boy, living more or less happily under poor conditions with his friends and family, selling chewing gum for a living. Cautiously they become friends. Cengo leads him to the meeting point of the children under the German bridge, where they live through carefree moments. When the Turkish military takes power, a curfew is imposed on the city. The life of Xelilo and the other Kurds is endangered. Who are the winners and losers in this conflict?
- StarsAnthony BourdainRhidian BridgeTom VitaleTony travels into the Kurdish region of Iraq and Turkey.
- DirectorFathy MirzaeianStarsRozhin FeizulapoorFarhad AminiRezgar MohammadiAfter nearly getting caught by the dreaded "Bat Guards" for placing political posters, Hawar meets the lovely Hiro, a young girl who offers him shelter and helps him hide from the brutal secret police. In Hiro, Hawar finds a kindred spirit that like himself yearns for freedom and self-expression under a suppressive regime. Hiro's brother Shooresh supports Hawaar's underground activities and is sympathetic to Hawaar's feelings for his sister. But Hiro's cousin Houmayoun is also courting Hiro. He has long set his eye on the girl, and his dubious loyalties and secret dealings with the government put the three others, and all they aspire to, at risk. They set out to flee to neighboring Turkey, but the journey puts them in even more danger than they were in before.
- DirectorBatin GhobadiStarsHussein Hassan AliHelly LuvFeyyaz DumanMardan is a police officer who one day meets Leila, whose husband has disappeared. Mardan takes it on himself to solve the mystery.
- DirectorWalid M. TaherStarsRekish ShahbazBerivan IsaFathi EvariA soldier gets permission from the military services during the Iraqi-Iranian war, and returns back to his village for his wedding. When he returns to the army, he finds his fellows defeated, most of them are lost or dead. He, then escapes from the battlefield, and returns back to the village. When he discovers that the army has announced him as a deceased soldier, he hides himself in his house's basement to avoid getting arrested.