Iraq Movies

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...

A boy from Kurdistan living in France comes back to visit his childhood village, there to meet a girl studying the French language at the University...

The blind ferryman Ayoub lives in the swamps of southern Iraq. One day he meets a mysterious woman and falls for her. Nobody believes that she...

An elderly man from a distant village in Iraqi Kurdistan is mightily vexed by his daughter’s dreams of becoming an artist, in contrast with his...

A young singer is renowned and surrounded by admirers, but despite his success and numerous fans, he is not romantically involved with any of them....

This film, despite the attention it received, was never screened to the public due to vague production reasons. Its story carries some complications...

Amjad, a young barber, finds his only relief in a close friend, Nour, a displaced student. But when Nour falls victim to a brutal assault, their...

Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service....

A man tries to meet death by the tree where playful children come and go.

Fuad, a successful merchant, lives a happy life with his wife until suspicion grows after a friend tries to seduce her. Consumed by doubt, he...

an Iraqi film about dance and murder.

From the deep south to the extreme north, a trip through Iraq where the amazing diversity of Iraqi society is unveiled. Haunting chants are...

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...

A mother and her child’s souls are tied together with a thin rope, therefore they cannot, whatever, forget each other.

On the anniversary of BLACK WEDNESDAY and his fifth birthday a young boy is taken to visit his father's grave. Distracted by his toy car the little...

Aza, a mentally challenged young man from a small village, is determined to get married. Ignoring his father's objections, he heads to the city to...

The first Iraqi film influenced by the Italian neorealism film movement, characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. The...

This short tells the story of the life of an elderly mother and father. They want to portray their lives through a video camera in order to send it...

Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.