Ebrahim Saeedi

7.2 MovieRojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping...

The Exam

2021

6.2 MovieA road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears....

Crossing the Dust

2006

5.5 MovieYoung mother Lori must say goodbye to her husband, who decides to join the war against ISIS. She finds herself in a fight in midst her own society. Thus, Lori...

The Rain Bride

2022

6.2 MovieKurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to...

Memories on Stone

2014

7.0 MovieA 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...

The Return

2016

7.5 MovieThe Other Side of Burka is a 2004 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. In the southern island of Qeshm, Iran, which is a very strict region in point of...

The Other Side of Burka

2004

9.0 MovieRadical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.

Reseba: The Dark Wind

2016

6.2 MovieIt's 2004, and the news that Saddam Hussein has died sends shock waves through the Middle East. Shaho is the son of an elderly man of Iranian Kurdish heritage; the...

Tired

2010

7.0 MovieDuring the 30 years of the Baath ruling under Sadam in Iraq thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites were either killed or disappeared. Around 182,000 people lost their...

All My Mothers

2009

7.0 MovieReza is a freelance journalist who accidentally finds clues from Hiwa, an Iraqi soldier who saved Reza years ago in the harsh conditions of war. He leaves for Iraq to...

Lovers Die Standing

2013

2.0 MovieTo escape to the European paradise, the only way is a tunnel that is hidden. A 70 years old Christian man (Uncle Zuheir) lives among the Muslims, his wife and his...

Death Triangle

2012

9.5 MovieAn Iranian family is going through difficult times with their business, a campsite for desert lovers. Until Arash, the youngest son, has an idea. With an ad on...

Sunset Truck

2018

MovieIn an unspecified dystopia, a tyrant rules with an iron fist. To maintain control over the people, he employs 'Dasdaran', dangerous, scythe-wielding warriors who obey...

Have You Another Apple?

2006

MovieIn the village of "Dizaj Dol" near Iran's Lake Urmia, water scarcity has dried up wells and gardens. Farmers Kak Mohammad and Mashhadi Askar, who come from different...

Taste of Water

2023

MovieShahi received the award for the portrayal of Rohan, a 35-year-old woman who agrees to marry Mahi, an old man who had been the village teacher for many years. Mahi is...

Silent Glory

2022

MovieAfter submitting his application to resign, a judge, Ata, seeks shelter in his family villa out of town. When his son, Farhad, a university student, is released from...

فصل آلوچه های سبز

2023

MovieAs Lake Ûrmîye dries into salt plains, the once-fertile village of Dizaj Dol faces ecological collapse. Amid dying crops and vanished livelihoods, Kurdish and Azari...

Burning Dust