Discoveries from Iraq World Cinema

A former Iraqi army commander under Saddam Hussein, responsible for the mass murder of Kurds, is looking for witnesses who want to testify that he actually saved lives.

A Kurdish-Swedish soccer team’s journey to become champions and a symbol of resilience for the Kurdish people.

The film depicts the biography of King Ghazi, one of the kings of Iraq in the 1930s, who sought to break free from the bonds of British colonization and adopt a nationalist path. This led various parties to attempt his assassination, including the servant Sa'id, who is also disposed of after the assassination. The film also portrays aspects of life in Iraq during the 1930s.

Alongside her studies, 35-year-old Tamara Amer is fighting a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq where she grew up.

A joint Iraqi–Lebanese film built on comedic contrasts, centered on two carefree young men who wreak havoc in the city. When they unexpectedly encounter love, their lives begin to improve and they set themselves on a better path.

When a college student leaves his rubbish behind, his whole day takes a strange turn.

A man lives a happy life with his wife and two children until he meets a seductive dancer who lures him, convincing him to escape from his dull and monotonous life. She transports him to a world of happiness through nights and moments spent with her. Meanwhile, she exhausts his financial resources, pushing him to the brink of bankruptcy. As their relationship weakens, the dancer attempts to distance herself from him.

In August 2014 Isis attacks the city of Shingal and the villages surrounding it, while Haider and 21 members of his family are escaping the terrorists, something happens that drastically changes the course of their lives. in a double narrative fractured storyline, Haider must choose a path.

Couples hear some unexpected news after learning that their first child is coming.

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 them, and one day he hears an announcement on the radio that there is a place showing hundreds of photos of missing people, He decides to go to this place while listening to the radio continuously, He also hears other stories of other people. All the stories are about getting lost and the tragedies that have happened to Kurds.

A Yazidi refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan is home tomore than 20,000 refugees, many of whom are victims of terrorist attacks by ISIS. Shilan is a young Kurdish nurse who volunteered to take care of them. Every tent in the camp has a story, and Shilan takes the responsibility of hearing the refugees out, empathising with the pain they are suffering. One day Shilan hears about a tent where a woman is refusing to eat her food or have any sort of contact with the outside. She decides to take action.

A police drama about the confrontations between the police and drug dealers in the city of Basra. The film includes many of Ahlam Wahbi’s songs in her early cinematic appearances. The film achieved great public success upon its screening in Baghdad and the governorates.

Ammo Baba is considered an icon that Iraqis are proud of for his illustrious football career, which benefited the Iraqi national team and generations of young athletes.

Fragmented views of deserts and Baghdad interiors evoke a society shaped by war, repression and resilience, linking cosmic beliefs with history and memory.

A seemingly normal car journey crosses from present reality into a recurring nightmare as Hamoudi, a young victim of war, relives his traumatic experiences of the Baghdad Blackwater shootings.

A short film about the horror of what would happen if an invention in the future makes possible the viewing of our past? What would happen if our past can be viewed through a mirror? What could go wrong?

During the sectarian war in Iraq, a child sees a murder in front of him and continues his day with this secret.

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

Duhok, in a small city Hevar and his group of friends try to make their school break more interesting, but what they haven’t noticed is how alienated they have been from nature, work, people and themselves.

War destroys everything, in my reign not only we had war in our enemy we had interior war between 2 political part we called this war (Brother's war) and a thousand human killed or handicapped because of this war, now both of the party sharing the power of the government. After 7 years of war between them. My film is all about the victim of last war those people whom suffering physically and psychologically because of this war.

The story of the film revolves around the life of an elderly married couple who live in a secluded farm far from people in silence and a normal life. One day while plowing their farm they found human bone remains of ones who were killed in the Kurdish Civil War. Aisha insists on not burying the bones and the dispute begins between them until they separate from each other.

Iraqi police drama

Iconic photographer Latif al-Ani travels across Iraq to find the people and places he took photos of before the wars. Acclaimed photographer Latif al-Ani, born in Baghdad in 1932, is known as the father of Iraqi photography. As the official photographer for presidents and the Iraqi Petroleum Company, his portfolio forms a unique visual archive of Iraq during its heyday from the 1950s to 1970s. His photos capture the abundance and complexity of a modern and cosmopolitan nation living in peace and harmony. But when Saddam Hussein rose to power, al-Ani stopped taking photos. After decades of war, al-Ani travels across Iraq with his photographs in search of the remnants of his beautiful country.

it tells the story of an introverted young boy.

A young disabled amputee boy with a passion for football bets his valuable footballer pictures in the hope he can grab the attention of the girl he loves.

The young man Essam is studying engineering and is in love with his sweetheart as they dream of tomorrow. But things take a turn when Essam joins the army as he is sent on a military mission in Iran during the war, and his squad suffers severe difficulties due to the harsh terrain.

A border village during the Iran-Iraq war experiences the evils of war from the viewpoint of a young man who reflects on the fate that befell his village in this grinding war. The reality of war is reflected by the villagers who try to lead a normal life despite all the hardships they are facing.

"We don't have time for song" discusses the issues and problems of contemporary humans, especially within romantic relationships and families.

A detective investigates a girl's strange death. The truth leads to a surprising ending.

Arivan, a young man, experiences time reversing around him, uncovering signs and memories from his past filled with loss and sadness. As he navigates this strange phenomenon, he strives to face his past and find a way to move forward

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 city by working through the loss of their identity.

A man in his twenties finds videos filmed by his father a long time ago

After the black crows attack his land, a rich landowner gathers the village children and turns them into Scarecrows

Like a blurry watercoulor, the Euphrates painted the lands he touches with the shades of exile.

A young man driven by a distant lover to return to his roots, searching for answers to his inner conflicts

A social drama interspersed with numerous songs and dances, revolving around a young man who falls in love with a girl. In each situation, a song vividly portrays the emotions of that moment.

Journey through time filmed through the years of the eyes of Geovrz and through the light of experimental cinema

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly because it was perhaps always more a concept than a reality.

An old man is collecting the bodies of the dead in the fighting between the local parties and believes that everyone is the same and fighting for the same purpose.

The film begins in 1980, the beginning of Saddam Hussein's presidency, and continues until 2003, the fall of his government.

Projected on the wall by the gallery exit was Big Rock Candy Mountain, 2015, a four-minute video animation of one thousand stills taken from footage of ISIS militants toppling statues and wrecking artifacts in Syria and Iraq. The stills have been painted, drawn over, or collaged so that the felled works become reanimated: An Assyrian statue housed at Mosul’s central museum morphs into a cross-hatched breaching mermaid; another gains a polka-dot skin; yet another crashes to the ground enveloped in writhing pink roses. These whimsically patterned phoenixes, emerging from the ruins of sacred artifacts, provide a determinedly dreamy rejoinder to unimaginably destructive acts of censorship and constitute a celebration in their own right.

Living in exile in France for the past 25 years, Abbas Fahdel last year made Retour à Babylone, the occasion to return home, be reunited with his childhood friends and explore a reality that was now alien to him. In this film, Fahdel's camera shows us Iraqis in another light and the hopes and fears of these men and women who escaped the nightmare of a dictatorship only to be mired in chaos. He is better equipped than anyone for this task. He is both an "outside" angle of vision and a brotherly view. An Iraqi among Iarqis, he embodies a reference point in the turmoil. His presence and commitment during the past year, his receptivity during those months when everyone was preparing for war explains why his camera is never indiscreet or prying.

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.

Syrian Kurdish actor Bavê Tayar is defined by his patriarchal honor, which is destroyed when his only son, Tayaro, disappears and two of his sixteen daughters join the YPJ. In response, he sells all his possessions and impulsively abandons his family to begin a journey to Europe to find his son. This film is the story of his travels and the profound personal change Bavê Tayar undergoes.

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The film tells the story of a young man who grow up in popular straits and go through a number of traumas that are the reason for changing their personality .

In 1969, the peaceful village of Dekan in the Qasrok district, located 95 kilometers east of Duhok, fell victim to a ruthless attack by the Ba'ath regime. Amidst the chaos, the villagers sought refuge in a nearby cave. As the conflict escalated, the Iraqi armed forces launched a relentless assault on the area. The ensuing violence and bombings shattered the tranquility of Dekan, leaving its inhabitants in a desperate struggle for survival.

Muhannad is a professional hunter, but he is a hunter of another kind! He inherited this profession from his father, in this gloomy city, many wars took place, especially near this deep river.

Haibat and six of her grandchildren are making furnaces (tandoor ovens) under the burning sunlight of Kirkuk, but they don't have any bread to eat themselves! Haibat's son became depressed and died due to poverty and lack of employment. While her city is one of the biggest sources of oil worldwide, Haibat and her six grandchildren are trying to make ends meet in this city of oil. This vicious circle goes around.

a worker in a factory in Sulaimaniyeh (Kurdistan region in Iraq)has been chosen for a mission and we are witnessing of him while doing his duty. But Is the worker just a worker and Is the camera just a camera?

Iraqi film directed by Jafar Ali.

Inspired by the life and poetry of Sargon Boulos, this film explores exile, memory, and the enduring connection between a person and their homeland.

A young boy from Halabja is in the final stages of his filmmaking studies. He decides to make a short documentary about the survivors of the 1988 Halabja Genocide.

It's Lava's 20th birthday. She spends her day drifting between classrooms, cafés, her car, and crowded living rooms as friends and family prepare celebration after celebration in her honor.

After spending his life in a dark room, watching the world through a small window, Ghanem now finds himself trapped in the very same room that has become his nightmare. In an atmosphere of nostalgia and mixed emotions, we embark on a journey with the last cinema operator in Mosul, traveling back in time to discover his story after all the city’s movie theaters were demolished.

تدور أحداث السهرة التلفزيونية حول قصة حب تجمع بين أحمد وجميلة، وتستعرض التحديات الاجتماعية والعاطفية التي تواجههما. الإطار الاجتماعي: تعكس التمثيلية واقع العائلة العراقية والتقاليد السائدة في تلك الفترة، وكيفية التعامل مع العلاقات الإنسانية والروابط الأسرية. الطابع الدرامي: يركز العمل على الحوارات العميقة والمشاعر الإنسانية الصادقة، وهو أسلوب اشتهرت به "التمثيليات" (الأفلام التلفزيونية ذات الحلقة الواحدة) في ذلك الوقت The television drama revolves around the love story of Ahmed and Jamila, showcasing the social and emotional challenges they face. The social context reflects the reality of Iraqi families and the prevailing traditions of that era, exploring how they navigated human relationships and familial bonds. The dramatic style emphasizes profound dialogue and genuine human emotion, a hallmark of the "television dramas" (one-episode television films) of that time.

A weeping moon. A longing body of water. A non-dimensional work exploring the absence that forms. An ode to reflections.