Kurdish Movies

  • 2000
    A Time for Drunken Horses

    A Time for Drunken Horses

    A Time for Drunken Horses

    7.62000HD

    After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

    A Time for Drunken Horses
  • 2023
    Elaha

    Elaha

    Elaha

    6.22023HD

    Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an...

    Elaha
  • 2018
    Girls of the Sun

    Girls of the Sun

    Girls of the Sun

    7.12018HD

    Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating...

    Girls of the Sun
  • 2019
    Who Killed Lady Winsley?

    Who Killed Lady Winsley?

    Who Killed Lady Winsley?

    6.32019HD

    When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective...

    Who Killed Lady Winsley?
  • 2010
    Press

    Press

    Press

    6.62010HD

    The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.

    Press
  • 2016
    Refugee Poetry

    Refugee Poetry

    Refugee Poetry

    102016HD

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

    Refugee Poetry
  • 2012
    Rhino Season

    Rhino Season

    Rhino Season

    5.42012HD

    Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...

    Rhino Season
  • 2018
    My War

    My War

    My War

    92018HD

    Hundreds of Western volunteers have joined Kurdish armies in Syria and Iraq in their efforts to fight the Islamic State. What drives some Canadians...

    My War
  • 2023
    Translating Ulysses

    Translating Ulysses

    Translating Ulysses

    82023HD

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

    Translating Ulysses
  • 2023
    1988

    1988

    1988

    72023HD

    In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their...

    1988
  • 2014
    29

    29

    29

    02014HD

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

    29
  • 2016
    The Silence

    The Silence

    The Silence

    72016HD

    Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

    The Silence
  • 2024
    Where is Gilgamesh?

    Where is Gilgamesh?

    Where is Gilgamesh?

    9.22024HD

    A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it...

    Where is Gilgamesh?
  • 2023
    Monologue

    Monologue

    Monologue

    02023HD

    Sivan Encü, a young Kurdish man, provided for his family by "smuggling" through the Turkish-Iraqi border. When he was murdered in the 2011...

    Monologue
  • 2005
    Negezi!

    Negezi!

    Negezi!

    102005HD

    When his friends introduce him to a pretty girl, Aras falls in love with her and wants to propose to her.

    Negezi!
  • 2018
    The Legend of the Ugly King

    The Legend of the Ugly King

    The Legend of the Ugly King

    6.72018HD

    Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

    The Legend of the Ugly King
  • 2014
    Home & Key

    Home & Key

    Home & Key

    62014HD

    The story of this film is an aesthetic narration of the death of a Kurdish Family, along the 20th century.

    Home & Key
  • 2009
    American Herro

    American Herro

    American Herro

    02009HD

    American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out the American dream. 30-years...

    American Herro
  • 2001
    Road Blocks

    Road Blocks

    Road Blocks

    02001HD

    Ali, a Kurdish refugee, travels to Athens in search of his missing brother. He discovers that his brother paid to be smuggled into Italy but then...

    Road Blocks
  • 2020
    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    82020HD

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

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War