Iraq

The road is paved by acts of genocide, mass executions, and enslavement. The rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant scatters countless families of the Yezidi ...

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 the dead and was taken to the USA ...

The pains of not having an identity or a home in the orphanage are the stories that are not included in the framework of any narration.

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.

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.

A Portrait of Sufyan is a five-episode documentary about the life and art of Kurdish artist Sufyan Jalal. especially about the Tasan Artwork Project. the film took 4 years to shoot.

A story of a doctor who's in a mentally complicated situation and the events of this story leave him with no hope in life and slowly deteriorate his mental stability even further

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity ...

How can one talk about death without showing the dead? Or, experience suffering without seeing the wounds? A possible answer is found in Amer & Nasser, a video-gram excerpted from a ...

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

Adapted from an unfinished graphic novel, Baghdad Graphic shows the struggle of Iraqi journalists in the midst of the country's countless invasions.

Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother ...

It is the story of a foreign reporter who accompanies Kurdish rebels (Peshmerga) forces reporting on their national movement against the former dictatorship in Iraq. The government is ...

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 ...

Alia Farid’s recent work examines how nature in southern Iraq has, since the advent of modernity, been mobilised as a political tool. Her new film Chibayish was recorded in the ...

Alia Farid’s Chibayish examines how nature in southern Iraq has been viewed as both an accomplice and harbourer of political resistance. Filmed at the confluence of the Tigris and ...

Outside a stark tent city, this version of the game involves a grid of squares, two across by six long, marked by lines gouged into the arid ground. The player tosses a stone into the ...

In August 2017, during the final phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation, the Iraqi Army pushed Islamic State combatants back from the east bank of the Tigris River in Mosul. With the ...