Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish f...
A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home ...
Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Gr...
After two marines make it home following an ISIS interrogation, one struggles to survive while the o...
Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates...
Maija is a young and ambitious journalist who wants to do something that no other journalist has dar...
In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilli...
After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns w...
Laith, a 22 year old male wakes up on his birthday in Mosul, Iraq, only to have problems with his bo...
Two stories separated by 1400 years. After losing his mother in the midst of a war-torn country, an ...
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, ...
Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After ...
A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a m...
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on...
A group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach ...
The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after f...
A dramatic tale of espionage, propaganda, and romance, following the infamous Berlin rapper Denis Cu...
A powerful investigation into the political and criminal enterprise of kidnappings as ISIS rose to p...
A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to joi...
The eight-year Iran-Iraq War was one of the most brutal conflicts to devastate the region in the 20t...