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.
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean...
In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked b...
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish v...
Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the ...
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, sudde...
Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Gr...
Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconst...
After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they f...
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish f...
The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after f...
A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdis...
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now th...
This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in t...
As the forces of ISIS and Assad tear through villages and society in Syria and Northern Iraq, a grou...
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due...
In 2013, Selim Yildiz spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29.
Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at...
In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor, an openly gay African youth with blo...