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- Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
- Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.
- In war-torn Iraq, a ten-year-old boy with a crippling injury has an unquenchable passion for football.
- The Iraqi soccer team unites players from warring factions to become 2007 Asian Cup champions, briefly unifying the country amid civil war. Over a decade later, the players recount their journey through conflict to an unlikely victory.
- When the mind flies
- It is about the representation and optimization of the vulva, anatomical myths, circumcisions, censorship and intimate modifications. With: Mithu Sanyal, Claudia Gehrke, Laura Meritt, Wilfried Schneider and many others.
- In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda. "Heavy Metal in Baghdad" is the story of the band and its members, young Iraqis whose lives have been distorted and displaced by years of continual warfare in their homeland. The filmmakers have collected glimpses into the struggles of Acrassicauda as they try to stay together and stay alive. Their struggle is the untold story of the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of young Iraqis.
- One man's lonely struggle to rescue his seven orphaned grandchildren from a prison camp in Syria.
- The story of a past massacre that tragically finds its continuation today.
- The teenagers Shirin and Soran are in love, and want to marry, but Shirin's father has arranged her marriage, and forbids them. On her wedding night Soran kidnaps her for them to be together.
- An entire village in northern Iraq is wiped out when misinformed and panicked American soldiers stage a nighttime raid there.
- To break the indifference on Darfur humanitarian crisis, an enterprising activist must create an all-refugee national football team and compete in the World Cup.
- A mid-aged Artist(Bablo) gets lost in a demonstration against the thieves whom work for the government, making him vulnerable to what was coming, Bablo got unconscious and when he woke up he was one of the thieves. "Mental Hospital"
- Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her fight is Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic state of three hundred thousand inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30 years old, immersed in a human world, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.
- A Yezidi girl who is a victim of the Islamic State (ISIS) atrocities. After 11 months of captivity, she gives birth to an illegitimate child whose father is unknown. The girl is then saved by a human trafficker, but her illegitimate daughter causes social problems since no one in the community accepts them.
- This Short film recalls the real stories in Qarne village in Eastern Kurdistan on 3rd Aug 1979. The real tragedy that happened in those days and caused the death of dozens of children, women, young and old people in the area.
- There is a way to understand the complexity of the Iraqi post-war society: By buying stocks there. And watch what happens with their own money. Invest is to ask simple questions, and (seemingly) complicated relationships easily and personally to answer: Who invests, looks different on a country because he "shares in it" literally
- The drama revolves around the lives and stories of victims who take refuge in a shelter for battered women as well as those who run the place.
- Alan and his family deal with the horrors of war and the events in their lives that lead Alan to become one of the most fearless and respected bomb disposal technicians for the forces allied against ISIS in Northern Iraq.
- Rizgar is man who He has cheated on his wife, because of being drunk he has got a guilty conscience so he decided to suicide by throwing Himself down from a hill in his car, he meets Nalya, she is a lady, she has escaped from her husband for avoiding being killed. Nalya trying to regret Rizgar from his decision of suicide and Rizgar from the other side wants to save Nalya and consists on his Committing suicide.
- The film revolves around a poet suffering from psychological problems, and he sees the soul of his murdered friend in front of him, wherever he goes, He is very afraid at first, until he decides later to confront the soul to find out what it wants and survive.
- The story is about two characters, the first is a young orphan boy aged around 12, who lives alone in a big old house, and then he finds a friend when a quiet stranger enters his life, the strange young man is a political activist from Syria
- A 50-minute TV and radio show about analyzing current issues in the Middle East, especially the Kurds. This show has been made in three different languages, English, Persian and Kurdish, by Rudaw TV. In each episode of the show, host Fuad Raheem and Middle East expert Dr. Ardeshir Pashang analyze the issues of Iraq, the Kurds and the Middle East.
- 60 international filmmakers capture the worlds' first simultaneous moment in a motion picture medium.
- The story of The National Youth Orchestra of Iraq
- A musical tour film of the Middle East featuring Black Lips & Lazzy Lung.
- The flight of Kurdish children afraid from Daesh and Bachar Assad's regime and their life of misery in a refugee camp near Erbil. They sit before a cinema screen to forget about their misfortune and hunger.
- The Terrorists attacked on Kurdish Izadi people in Iraq about three years ago and they killed Thousands of instant women a Child. " Lost On the border" is a documentary movie about crimes ISIS terrorists did it in Middle-East.
- Aram and Mihemed are two teenage brothers who struggle to earn a living for the family. The boys cruise the streets of Kurdish capital, Arbil in Iraq.
- Anarchy and war have engulfed the Middle East. It is hard to tell, how the wars will evolve but one thing is sure - the Middle East as we know today will be forever scared by the rivers of blood. Meanwhile, the ancient struggle for independence of the Kurdish people rises from its ashes. Their population is estimated at 30 - 40 million. They are the largest nation without a country of their own, scattered between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The Kurdish people are currently at war with the Islamic State, which is trying to take their territories, the most famous battlefields being Syrian Kobane municipality, Kirkuk province and Mount Sinjar, both in Iraq. Slovene war correspondent Erik Valencic has visits this parts on his own, with a camera in hand. Together with Kurdish fighters he spends days at the front lines and manages to get into the middle of fighting against IS - a feat no other reporter has achieved. Fronte Kurdistana will take the viewer to the heart of Iraq and Syria civil wars and present the longstanding Kurdish struggle for independence in the most dangerous part of the world. (2015)
- Two boys in their daily life working on the streets. They come from different backgrounds with different stories. One of them dreams about going back to school but can't, since his father is ill and they need money to survive. The other boy wants to work hard and earn money to please his father because that's what his father taught him.
- Documentary film follow young Assyrian artist Ninos and his family from refugee life to returning to their home town.
- a few days before the arrival of Newroz, adding that the music video was directed by Alin Baqeri. The lyrics and melody of the song are partly folklore and the other part is worked on by Abd Mufti Zadeh and Shayan Mufti Zadeh. Jamshid was born in the Chuarbakh neighborhood of Sanaa. He studied architectural engineering in Tehran and worked with the Sanaa music group. He sang traditionally until 2000, then left Iran and East Kurdistan and did not return He has more than 60 singles and eight albums, each with one or two songs in Kurdish.
- In a special two-part series, Fault Lines travels across Iraq to take the pulse of a country and its people after nine years of foreign occupation and nation-building. It's 2012, and US combat troops have withdrawn. The so-called Islamic State is still underground. How are Iraqis overcoming the legacy of violence and toxic remains of the US-led occupation, and the sectarian war it ignited? Is the country on the brink of irreparable fragmentation? Correspondent Sebastian Walker first went to Baghdad in June 2003 and spent the next several years reporting unembedded from Iraq. In this second part of a very personal series, he returns and travels from Erbil to Mosul and Fallujah, revisiting old friends. Can the ghosts of the past ever stop haunting the future?
- One year on from her first visit, Stacey Dooley returns to Iraq to seek justice for the young women whose lives have been changed forever by ISIS. In a journey like never before, Stacey joins Shireen, a 23 year-old Yazidi woman who was held as a sex slave for over two years by ISIS. Shireen managed to escape while enslaved in Mosul, but many Yazidi woman like her haven't, and remain in captivity. Shireen is going in search of justice - and she's taking Stacey with her. Shireen travels with Stacey back to Mosul, the self-declared capital of ISIS in Iraq, to revisit the places where she was held captive. In East Mosul, they find the house where Shireen was imprisoned and sexually abused by a leading ISIS executioner for months. But it's the Old City of Mosul, where Shireen finally managed to escape ISIS, that means the most to her. With a military escort, the pair travel into the heart of the Old City - where ISIS made their last stand in a devastating and brutal battle. Here, ISIS militants are still being hunted and bombs litter the street. Keen to see justice is being served, Shireen and Stacey sit in on an interrogation of an ISIS suspect in court. But with the Iraqi justice system overwhelmed by the number of cases, justice isn't as clear cut as Shireen might have hoped. Armed with their unanswered questions, Shireen and Stacey finally have the chance to get answers when they come face to face with an ISIS commander in jail. He tells them he has murdered hundreds of men and raped countless Yazidi women and girls. His frank answers will stay with Shireen and Stacey forever. In a trip fraught with danger and trauma, Stacey asks: can justice ever really be served for women like Shireen?