Iraq Movies

An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.

Reving and his friend Nechir, who lives in a conservative part of Kurdistan, pursue their usual fun, which is considered normal adolescent fun in...

In 1959, underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at...

Everything becomes a gesture of dance: the torture, the hesitant political humour and the war. Everyone becomes a dancer, the dictator and the...

Filmed and directed by the Iraqis themselves -- thousands of them, from all walks of life, all over their country. The producers, who distributed...

On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.

A detective abandoned his daughter right after his wife's death for a governmental mission. This made her daughter angry. He risks his life to find...

Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are...

Sulaymaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in the 1940s. When his wife Kaleh goes into labor, her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife. By ill luck, he runs...

Young mother Lori must say goodbye to her husband, who decides to join the war against ISIS. She finds herself in a fight in midst her own society....

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to...

50 years on from the 1974 Guildford pub bombings, this programme tells the story of four young people who spent 15 years in prison for a crime they...

In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighbourhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of...

in 1988 Saddam attacks Halabja, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. After the chemical bombardment of Halabja, an Iranian war photographer is the first man to...

During the 30 years of the Baath ruling under Sadam in Iraq thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites were either killed or disappeared. Around 182,000...

Revealing the truth about women and the culture of the Middle East

A five-year-old Yazidi boy is released after nearly three years in ISIS captivity. Profoundly disturbed, brainwashed and weaponized ...

In 1929, Diessmann, a German scholar, discovers an ancient map of a Kurdish Admiral, struggling to find out the map's secrets, and expose one of the...

A man is tired of life for a long time and he wants to commit suicide, but...