PROGRAMME 2021
2018
France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland (115 min.)
Director: Eva Husson
Military, Drama
Premiere in Russia. A Kurdish women's unit in Peshmerga prepares to recapture its city from extremists.
2016
Germany, Iraq, Qatar (117 min.)
Director: Soleen Yusef
Drama
The story of the journey of brothers Jan, Alan and their sister Leah, who were born in the Kurdish region of Iraq and raised in Germany. All three want to fulfill their mother's last wish.
2020,
Iran, Turkey (89 min.)
Director: Batin Ghobadi
Drama
Premiere in Russia. In 2015, the body of Alan, a Kurdish boy from Syria, was found on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey. The film shows what could have happened to the boy and his family before the day when the boat capsized on the high seas.
2014
Germany, Iraq (97 min.)
Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Comedy, Drama
After the fall of the military regime in Iraq, childhood friends Hussein and Alan decide to make a feature film about the Kurdish genocide.
2019,
Turkey (93 min.)
Director: Selim Yildiz
Documentary
Premiere in Russia. The film tells about the experience of the director's mother, Besna, who wants to reach out to her son, like other mothers whose sons are involved in a long-term war in Turkey.
2013,
Norway, Germany, Iraq (105 min.)
Director: Hisham Zaman
Drama
Premiere in Russia. A 16-year-old boy leaves his native village in Kurdistan for Europe in search of his sister. It is his duty as the eldest man in the family to bring her back after she escaped from her own wedding.
2020,
Netherlands, Iraqi Kurdistan (75 min.)
Director: Ibrahim Selman
Documentary
More than forty years after the death of his father, Kurdish writer and theatrical figure Ibrahim Selman writes a letter to him.
2019,
Russia (52 min.)
Director: Tatyana Kiseleva, Vladimir Wolf
Documentary
A film about Nazim Nadirov . An ascetic and a dervish, who learned the value of simple things early, a sage and a philosopher who eagerly absorbed biblical truths.