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.
2014,
Iraq (105 min.)
Director: Jano Rosebiani
Comedy, Drama
A young girl, Vian, is forcibly given in marriage to a wealthy elderly businessman, Haji Hemmo. But during the wedding night, she runs out of the bedroom and climbs a tree, refusing to sleep with him. Hajj becomes a laughing stock in the city.
2017,
Belgium (102 min.)
Director: Sahim Omar Kalifa
Drama
Zagros is a young shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip about Havin: there are rumors about her romance.
2019
USA, Turkey (86 min.)
Director: Hasan Demirtas
Documentary
The film tells about three main stories of genocide in the world.
2016
Switzerland (102 min.)
Director: Mano Khalil
Drama
Young Swiss Mira searches for her lost father with the help of her Kurdish friend Rameau. These two get closer as they travel. However, a dark past and political issues complicate matters.
2016
Germany (104 min.)
Director: Ekrem Heydo
Documentary
The director returns to his hometown in Syria 25 years later with a photo of his old classmates. He will try to figure out what happened to all of them after the war changed their faith.
2015
Iraq, Jordan (91 min.)
Director: Lauand Omar
Horror, Thriller
Five strangers who share one nightmare. Hell has reincarnated. The Curse of Mesopotamia is the first English-language genre film filmed in the Middle East and played by famous actors from different countries.
2018
Iraq (125 min.)
Director: Jowan Bamarni
Military
During the war on terrorism, the peshmerga (Kurdish military forces) join forces with an alliance on a mission to stop the mad scientist. The journey is filled with dangers.
A STEP TO GO
2020
Iran (23 min.)
Director: Rebwar Mahmodpour
Documentary
The family is preparing to meet their son after his long immigration. Migration has two sides. One is the one who left, and the other is the one who is waiting.
DISTANT
2016
Syria (16 min.)
Director: Leyla Toprak
Documentary
The film follows the impact of the war in Kobani (Syria) on people and nature, as well as the uprising of Kobani women guerrillas against an approach that has ignored the historical values of women in dominant social descriptions for years.
DYAB
2016
Iraq (16 min.)
Director: Mazin M. Sherabayani
Documentary
Dyab, 12, is a Yezidi Kurd living in a refugee camp on the Arbat after horrific attacks by Islamic states on their villages in the Shingal Mountains (Sinjar). However, Dyab's dream is to become a director and actor and tell the stories and suffering of his people to the outside world.
RETURN TO POVERTY
2020
Turkey (24 min.)
Director: Umay Isik
Documentary
In 1994-95, hundreds of Kurdish villages in Turkey were destroyed, forcing residents to leave. They could not return to their homeland for over 10 years. When they returned, they had to rebuild their homes and infrastructure.
TOUCH
2018
Iraq (22 min.)
Director: Warman Saeed
Documentary, short
The touch is a window into the daily life and struggles of a Yezidi Kurdish family from Shangal who currently lives in a refugee camp in South Kurdistan. This is a family of 10 people, 6 of whom are completely blind and the mother is very sick.
ARÎN
2020
United Kingdom (11 min.)
Director: Mizgin Mujde Arslan
Drama, short
Solin is a pregnant Kurdish woman living in London with her old father. Her father got lost without speaking a word of English. Solin is haunted by the only thing he can describe: the clock tower.
TROUSERS
2018
Turkey (15 min.)
Director: Tahsin Ozmen
Comedy, Drama, Short
During the reforms in Turkey in the first half of the 20th century, men had to wear trousers and hats in the cities. In a small village in eastern Turkey, a man named Dilo wants to travel to town to buy a mirror. There is only one pair of trousers and a hat that the villagers take turns wearing when they travel to town.
TASTE OF RABBIT
2017
Norway, Russia (11 min.)
Director: Kardo Mansour
Drama, short
Elena has found a new way to take care of the family, but her attempts to make ends meet complicate the relationship in their home.
ACORN
2020
Turkey (11 min.)
Director: Nazmi Karaman
Drama, short
In a Yezidi village on Mount Shingal, a father, mother and their daughter live together in a peaceful atmosphere. However, the calm and peace were disrupted by the ISIS attack.
TESTAMENT
2019
Iraqi Kurdistan (14 min.)
Director: Kamiran Betasi
Drama, Short
Doctors had to amputate Kovan's grandmother's leg. Kovan, 14, receives an assignment from his father to take the amputated leg to their village and bury it according to Islamic customs so that his grandmother can get the leg back in the next life.
RED RIDDLE
2019
Iran (14 min.)
Director: Aso Mehdi Jodat
Drama, short
A young man falls in love with a girl and after a long time decides to tell her about it. He invite her to the coffee shop to tell her his secret. However, his friend appears and ruins all his plans.
THE SUMMER OF THE SWANS
2017
Iran (14 min.)
Director: Maryam Samadi
Drama, short
The cherished dream of a disabled boy can come true, as he believes that a swan by the pond can heal him. When some of his friends spot a swan by the pond, he decides to take the only chance in life.
SILENCE
2012
Turkey (14 min.)
Director: Rezan Yesilbas
Drama, short
The Diyarbakir prison is a symbol of torture suffered by prisoners in Turkey after the 1980 coup d'état. The picture is about women who visited their husbands in prisons and could not speak, because they did not know Turkish, and Kurdish was banned.
MY CAT
2017
Iraq (15 min.)
Director: Imad Mahmadani
Drama, short
There is always a soul that takes care of us, even if we do not know about it. Maybe this soul is not a person, sometimes it is a living being that we never think of.
HOPE
2018
Syria, France, Qatar (20 min.)
Director: Mohammad Shaikhow
Drama, short
Hevi and Walat, a young couple of Kurdish refugees, agreed to meet with the smuggler to cross the undefined border and reach the place of freedom.
PORTAL
2019
Iran (25 min.)
Director: Ayoub Sheikh Ahmadi
Horror Short
Bakhtiyar takes a shower in an old public bath, where he finds a gold stone and takes it for himself, but then mysterious events happen to him.
THE WORLD'S LAST HOUSE
2019
Iran (16 min.)
Director: Amir Gholami
Drama, short
An old man who has been answering letters from people for a long time and solving their problems in a distant home faces the strangest test of his life. An annoying guest comes to him with three bullets in a pistol ...
THE STAIN
2020
Iran (13 min.)
Director: Shoresh Vakili
Drama, short
A former soldier working in a movie theater struggles with a blood-red stain that appears on the screen every time during the battle scenes of ongoing films.
GET OFF
2019
Iran (13 min.)
Director: Teymour Ghaderi
Drama, short
City, bike, girl ... She has to hide from the police while she rides her bike, but why?
THE HEAVY BURDEN
2019
Turkey (17 min.)
Director: Yilmaz Ozdil
Drama, short
Avdel feeds his family by working with the Bozo donkey in the sanitary service of the city of Mardin in Turkey. Avdel's nephew Salikh, who fled from Syria, also lives with his family. When the municipality retires the "old Bozo", Avdel faces the problem of finding a younger donkey.