Movies: Kurdish culture

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government....

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 the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home ...

A powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traden between the Kurdish cities and towns of Iran and borders of Iraq. The film follows Hamid and Yasser over six years as they contend with the life threatening conditions they and their families hav...

Banned since 1993 in France and Germany, does the PKK still represent a danger? A dive into the heart of a complex geopolitical issue, where the fight for freedom, manipulation and pressure are intertwined....

Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down when the eldest son falls in love....

THE FILM "DOZ", TOLD IN THE BACKDROP OF BEAUTIFUL KURDISH LANDSCAPE, IS ABOUT SIRMEN, THE DAUGHTER OF A RICH MAN, WHO REFUSES TO MARRY THE MAN HER FATHER HAS PICKED OUT FOR HER. SIRMEN LEAVES HER PARENTS' HOUSE TO SEEK AID FROM THE YEZIDI PRINCE....