Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi border. When he was murdered in the 2011 Robozik (Roboski) Massacre, the responsibility of family's welfare was taken over by his younger brother Sinan, who lost his life in an unfortunate accident. This is the story of their grief-stricken mother Heyam and her resilience. Alongside Heyam's struggle, the film brings the voices of Robozik elders and notables to the forefront, who have experienced first-hand the social, political and economic dimensions of smuggling, which has been the backbone of survival for the locals for many generations.
In the 1990s, fearing persecution from the Turkish government, about 2,000 Kurdish refugees of Turki...
The story of a father who has to smuggle granulated sugar home because of the embargo.
In the 1990s, some newspapers were not allowed to enter the Diyarbakir region, under a state of emer...
The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It f...
Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located i...
In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, ...
In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their ...
Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures mome...
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish v...
In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter...
An old Kurdish man Hussein Mahmood who is a carpenter tries to make artificial legs for people who h...
Wali, an ex-sniper, leaves Canada to fight the Islamic state. He meets two Americans: Rebaz and Zyri...
Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, p...
American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee fro...
The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.
"Nû Jîn", New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', d...
Filmmaker River Hagg travels to war-torn Syria, in hopes of documenting the war between the YPG and ...