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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Zara

    In an expanse of stony Turkish landscape, two women roam around looking for the village of Zara. The Kurdish Mirka is returning to her birthplace…
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  • The Storm

    The 90s were the heyday of Turkey’s student movement, and acclaimed documentarist Kazim Öz’s second feature The Storm is a true-to-life epic of Kurdis
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  • Searching for God

    A surrealist short film by a young film maker from the Kurdish part of Iraq.
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  • The White Page

    Short film by a young Iraqi film maker about the contrast between poor and rich in his country.
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  • We Have Gasoline

    A young Kurdish film maker provides a subtle commentary on today’s energy policy of the present Iraqi government.
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  • Ax

    A short film banned in Turkey about an old man who is the only one who refuses to leave a Kurdish village that is cleared…
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  • My Marlon and Brando

    Dramatic road movie based on a true story about a young theatre actress from Istanbul who wants to go to her lover. The problem is…
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  • Water

    Several short films in which the young Iraqi-Kurdish film maker tackles several taboos such as incest and rape in a daring way.
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  • The Photograph

    Penetrating Turkish-Kurdish drama about two boys who make friends during a twenty-hour bus journey. One is going to do his military service in the Tur
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  • 111 Girls

    111 Kurdish girls live in an area without marriageable men. They bring their problem to the president’s attention, threatening to commit collective su
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