Iraq Movies

An evocative Kurdish short drama following a photographer who captures portraits of resilience across post-conflict communities, discovering that...

Syrian Kurdish actor Bavê Tayar is defined by his patriarchal honor, which is destroyed when his only son, Tayaro, disappears and two of his...

Traces artist Sherko Abbas’ journey along Iraq’s Tigris River in June and October 2022 in search of its mythical past and present...

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

In the final film of the Encounters on the Tigris trilogy, Abbas travels by boat to Al-Amarah to discover the rich diversity of flora and fauna along...

footage from different times, places and friends along the way and trying to capture the best moments out of them under the circle of experimental...

The eye stretches as far as the cosmos, and burns the earth.

Two partners steal a safe, only to find themselves stranded in the desert. Driven by greed, one partner murders the other, but the killer is left...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its fragmentation into separate states, mafias emerged on the economic and political scene, trading in...

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

Abu Al Jees is a killer who erases his victims. But he meets someone who challenges him.

A group travel on a broken minibus. Their travel is laden with danger as they try to avoid Saddam Hussein's soldiers and security forces.

From the bleeding stillness of the night, day is birthed.

A Hasan Marih movie - A disobedient son

Abbas’s experimental documentary, Paper Puppet Testimony, collects the stories of Kurdish women in the Red Prison. Although the prison has been...

Documentary about the expeditions of the third marine division in Iraq.

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...

The film is about children with autism and the pressures they face, such as fear, bullying, negative feelings, and imagination.