Kurdish Movies

"The Last Season: Shawaks" revolves around an extended Shawak family whose life is marked by seasonal migration.

Three women, three wars, one dream. Lanja is a journalist in Iraq fearlessly fighting against honor violence. Maia in Abkhazia battles archaic...

A Kurdish woman as a suspect of terrorism: the exciting political thriller deeply depicts the racist surveillance system in Turkey. The young Kurdish...

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

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures moments in the lives of diverse ethnic communities...

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are...

Documentary on the Turkish invasion of Afrin in Northern Syria in 2018.

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the...

Leyla Zana, the first woman Kurdish MP to be elected to the Turkish Parliament in 1992, was impisoned in 1994 for 15 years for speaking in Kurdish in...

In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, innovative, experimental groups. To a deep love...

Shobo is a young woman who is in a misery situation for having a child, a decision that has a particular impact on her life and her people.

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's...

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers...

An underdog basketball team under the helm of an idealist school teacher from hard scrabble Diyarbakir in Southeastern Turkey goes beyond winning...

Two village boys are very sick, they are foaming at the mouth, they are sitting near a huge well and they hate each other.