Iraq Movies

A sensitive Kurdish short drama exploring the fragile beginning of a new day as two individuals confront unspoken family grief and find quiet...

Hama is a young man living on rent. He loses his job and, as a result, is forced to vacate his home. While packing his belongings, he comes across an...

The film reflects the suffering of a rural woman with a strong personality. Everyone in the village tries to marry her for the sake of the acres she...

Short film confronting the reality of living conditions for Palestinians in the occupied territories with the falsely reassuring messages they send...

The narrative Ali Hussein, takes us on an environmental journey through Nasiriyah, revealing the tragedies and struggles faced by people, animals,...

On March 16th, 1988, Saddam Hussein’s regime led a chemical attack against the people of Halabja that resulted in over 5,000 deaths. Though...

Two men: one wheelchair-bound and with a radio dangling around his neck, tuned to news of violence in Iraq; the other lies on his bed, his eyes fixed...

Opened in an old house in 1992 by a close-knit group of Iraqi artists and writers, the Hiwar Center is a gathering place for those who are interested...

Karrar asks Qassomi what he wants to eat, and Qassomi eagerly lists a feast: rice, chicken, stew, tashreeb, and makhlama. Karrar jokingly responds...

A sad clown encounter with a little boy holding a balloon

Sarah lives in a fierce mental struggle and deep and deadly imagination. She dreams of the artificial beauty she sees every day on social media, but...

The movie starts with a guy being unable to sleep, he decides to get up in the middle of the night for a walk, singing about how lucky other people...

In 1929, Diessmann, a German scholar, discovers an ancient map of a Kurdish Admiral, struggling to find out the map's secrets, and expose one of the...

A Hasan Marih movie - A disobedient son

A short documentary about Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, reflecting on his life, poetry, and thoughts on exile and memory.

A short film about Kurdish women working for their lives

A short biographical film about Iraqi poet Badr Shakir Al-Sayab, that charts the pivotal moments in a remarkable life. Despite his short life (he...

Sometimes, in some situations, we cannot point the finger at the real criminal, even if we know who he is... and we assume a second personality 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...

An Iraqi comedy that satirizes the cultural shock Iraqis experience when moving from the traditional Shorja market to European life.