Iraq Movies

A recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Iraqi Kurdistan to find her mother's village, likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide....

This film tells the story of a man that lost his wife and children during the mass exodus of Kurds in 1991, He spends all his life searching for...

The children of Mosul are starting their new school year after being displaced from their homes. They are now studying the history of their destroyed...

Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service....

A romantic story set in the heart of a war-torn Kurdish town. When Sherin leaves to fight, her anguished lover Ferhat stays behind awaiting her...

Sada, meaning «echo» in Arabic, was conceived as Sada for Iraqi art by the Baghdad-born Rijin Sahakian. Sahakian set up the initiative,...

The Little Black Fish tells the tale of a small, inquisitive fish who dares to question the limitations of her world—the stream where...

The play takes place within a critical social comedy framework, where it satirically reviews the concerns of the Iraqi citizen and the contradictions...

A poet runs away from his society, can no longer live in it, goes to a distant place and lives alone, suddenly there he sees death.

Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through his devastated country in search of the...

Ghasem is forced to sell their cow to spend a hard winter in their village. As soon as the sale is made, the cow goes missing.

In 1988 the Iraqi Ba'ath party murdered and buried 182,000 Kurds in 350 mass graves. Only 10 people managed to escape. Faraj climbed out from amongst...

Filmed over a period of ten years, Dance with a Bullet is about the personal story of a 27-year old Iraqi male dancer named Anmar Taha, his survival...

The teacher, a girl from a city becomes a teacher in a village, she is in love with Shero who is a guy from the village, and she has to choose one...

Laith, a 22 year old male wakes up on his birthday in Mosul, Iraq, only to have problems with his boyfriend, Mohanad a 27 year old male. Mohanad...

Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.

Tiku Weds Sheru is a romantic comedy about two quirky characters who dream of becoming film stars. While their romance blooms, they get caught...

Amjad, a young barber, finds his only relief in a close friend, Nour, a displaced student. But when Nour falls victim to a brutal assault, their...

Kurdish Family who decided to immigrate from Russia to Sweden. Along the way, the plot turns into a detective story during their stay in Russia.

Dema jin hes bike (When a woman loves) by Jînda Baran is one of the early examples of Kurdish guerilla cinema.