The Legend of the Ugly King

Jiyana Rewsenbireki Kurd: Casimê Celîl

Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located in Digor, Kars. The v...

Translating Ulysses

Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank's former...

Safe Space

This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space...

Six Days

Three women, three wars, one dream. Lanja is a journalist in Iraq fearlessly fighting against honor violence. Maia in Ab...

Binxet - Under the border

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place...

American Herro

American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out...

Incomplete Sentences

Aslı Erdoğan, world-renowned author and activist, has fallen into silence after she fled to Germany. Incomplete Sentence...

Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing in...

This Rain Will Never Stop

This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cyc...

My War

A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. The featur...

The Last Season: Shawaks

"The Last Season: Shawaks" revolves around an extended Shawak family whose life is marked by seasonal migration.

We Called Him the Ugly King

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years a...

Monologue

Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi border. When he was mu...

detours while speaking of monsters

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, ol...

Refugee Poetry

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war a...

29

In 2013, Selim Yildiz spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29.

Beside Heroes

Wali, an ex-sniper, leaves Canada to fight the Islamic state. He meets two Americans: Rebaz and Zyrian. One is a veteran...

Rojava, l'avenir suspendu

A documentary on Royava's suspended future, while caught in the crossfire between Damas, Ankara, Tehran and Moscow.

Köy

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from thr...

Wild is the Spring

Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures moments in the lives of...

The Dead Can Talk

After 30 years of silence, Hasso’s son is making every effort to find an eyewitness that verify his father as a formal r...

Rheme Maining Sources

A place-specific film-excavation of Bixiga neiborhood – São Paulo. Choreography of forces that cross present time. Filma...

Qwerty

The movie is a fictionalized account of a disgruntled cop who has been wrongly implicated in a torture video that went v...

Star!

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

Avatar

Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.

Afgan

A large number of drugs enter Kazakhstan from Afghanistan. To stop this, a special group must be created. The Ministry d...

My Avatar and Me

is a creative documentary-fiction film and a film that might expand your sense of reality. It is the story about a man w...

T'choupi à l'école - C'est la rentrée!

Oh Meri Mehboba

Big Boss, a passionate and eccentric actor, decides to bring his dream project to life by creating a Bollywood music vid...

Capturing Avatar

Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the...

Movie Maniacs

The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies...

Hirngespinster

Simon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who suffers from schizophrenia...

In a Whisper

An intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and free...

Female Urologists 3

Haeil, wounded by his wife's words of 'premature ejaculation', goes to a urology department. But because the doctor is a...

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since...

White Lightning

The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to b...

Work

In an economically struggling small town, Jenny, a young married woman, begins an affair with June, her college-bound, A...

Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

"Elemental" takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. We follow the harro...