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.
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In 2013, Selim Yildiz spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29.
In the 1990s, fearing persecution from the Turkish government, about 2,000 Kurdish refugees of Turki...
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due...
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This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through huma...
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney...
Three women, three wars, one dream. Lanja is a journalist in Iraq fearlessly fighting against honor ...
The educational documentary film Music of Yarsan: A Living Tradition is an investigation into the va...
Documentary on Sakine Cansız (Sara), the Kurdish revolutionary and PKK co-founder killed in Paris in...
"Nû Jîn", New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', d...
The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.
In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter...
Wali, an ex-sniper, leaves Canada to fight the Islamic state. He meets two Americans: Rebaz and Zyri...
Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at...