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 the Parliament. Kudret Gunes' personal look at the life of Zana takes her to her birth-place, friends and exiled husband.
Aslı Erdoğan, world-renowned author and activist, has fallen into silence after she fled to Germany....
Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi bo...
The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after f...
Three women, three wars, one dream. Lanja is a journalist in Iraq fearlessly fighting against honor ...
KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. ...
"The Last Season: Shawaks" revolves around an extended Shawak family whose life is marked by seasona...
“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and free...
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due...
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney...
An underdog basketball team under the helm of an idealist school teacher from hard scrabble Diyarbak...
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through huma...
Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures mome...
Wali, an ex-sniper, leaves Canada to fight the Islamic state. He meets two Americans: Rebaz and Zyri...
In 2013, Selim Yildiz spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29.
In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, ...
Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, p...
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer...
Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the ...
Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located i...
Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at...