Kurdistan. The Burning Heart of Nowruz

Why is Difficult to make Films in Kurdistan?

In this 25-minute-long film, Avci returns to her hometown to make a movie, and as the title already discloses, this does not go with ease.

Libertà di Hevi. Una Vita per il Kurdistan

EAST OF EDEN: The Red Fire of Kurdistan 1979–1982

In a moment of revolutionary fervor, Kurdish partisans gather to celebrate the arming of the first female Peshmerga guerrillas. Their ceremony marks a moment of possibility, as a people dare to imagine a different future

Up to G-cup

Jacqueline van Vugt follows the Kurdish-Dutch Shapol Majid. She opened the first lingerie store in Northern Iraq in 2014. Various generations of women tell their vulnerable stories about love, sexuality, culture, faith,

Hassan's Smile

Hassan approaches an aircraft that crashed in the mountains and discovers a survivor. He decides to carry him to the monastery where he lives with his father and other Orthodox monks.

Notes from a Kurdish Rebel

Akif left Germany to join up with the PKK guerrilla fighters. His diary records the doubts, dreams and political discussions that the fighters share as they march through the mountains, and in the meetings where the wome

The Many Lives of Kojin

In a first-person documentary, Diako Yazdani, a political refugee in France, returns to see his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to a 23-year-old gay man from Kojin who seeks to exist in a society where he s