Iraq Movies

Iraqi film directed by Jafar Ali.

Arivan, a young man, experiences time reversing around him, uncovering signs and memories from his past filled with loss and sadness. As he navigates...

'A Swing in Atayfiyah' dwells in the memory of homes and friendships left behind in Iraq, the irrecoverable sense of belonging, and the dissonance of...

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...

August 3, 2024 marked the tenth anniversary of the genocide committed by the so-called “Islamic State” against the Yazidis in northern...

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

Sharwal is the name given to the traditional trousers that are worn by men in Kurdistan. Meticulously pleated and made from tightly woven wool,...

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

In this animated film project, Sherko Abbas draws on his own childhood memories of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, as well as using found images and...

Encounters on the Tigris follows a journey taken by artist and filmmaker Sherko Abbas in 2022, along the ancient Tigris river, in search of...

A man in his twenties finds videos filmed by his father a long time ago

This footage is part of an old archive taken by the filmmaker’s father Abbas Abdulrazaq, a former Kurdish fighter and cameraman. In 1985 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...

In the face of an ultimate decision, nature intervenes.

A little boy attempts to escape from an ISIS terrorist camp in Nineveh, Iraq.