Zirek

6.1 MovieA young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

The Man Who Cried

2000

7.1 MovieA teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Skirt Day

2008

7.0 MovieKenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures...

Sisters in Arms

2019

5.9 MovieBroke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way,...

Jeune Femme

2017

7.0 MovieBahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has...

Girls of the Sun

2018

6.2 MovieDesperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias...

Eden Is West

2009

7.2 MovieProduced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living...

The Wall

1983

4.9 MovieA seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, unsuspecting man...

Like a Fish Out of Water

1999

7.2 MovieA small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab school and has to...

Neighbours

2022

6.3 MovieBefore 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...

Before Snowfall

2013

5.5 MovieIn the vibrant African neighborhood of Château d'Eau in Paris, Charles is the smoothest of all the hustlers. His job: to fill the districts numerous hair salons with...

Chateau

2017

7.1 MovieAlan, Jan and Liya, born in Kurdistan, raised in Stuttgart, want to grant their deceased mother her final wish: to be buried beside her husband, who died in the war,...

House Without Roof

2017

6.3 MovieAram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher...

Aram

2002

MovieAt the haven for the abandoned, a 50-year-old part-time dad at the end of the line meets a 35-year-old woman who returns after 15 years with a secret.

Hotel Paradise

2012

MovieZîrek is a Kurd from Turkey. Stateless in Paris for more than a quarter of a century, he promised his father that he would send his grandson to his homeland, where he...

Pari(s) d'exil

2013

MovieIn a dull, desolate town, Joy is an orphan who lives her faith with intensity and almost never leaves her church. Until the day she meets Andriy, a young man who gets...

The Book of Joy

2025

MovieThree Turkish workers traverse Iraq in a jeep heading to an American military base construction only to find themselves confronting adolescent Iraqi soldiers in a checkpoint.

Latin Babylon

2017

MovieHakan is a young Turkish house painter who works in France with his father Mustafa. The revelations that will be made to him over a cup of coffee grounds are going to...

A spider’s web