Iraq Movies

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

Qetran (Tar) is a feature-length documentary film about the history of the Sulaymaniyah Cigarette Factory(Now: Culture Factory) and the stories of...

In the Summer of 2014, the Islamic State invaded Shengal, the Ezidi capital in Kurdistan (Iraq). The plan was to exterminate the ethnical/religious...

The film depicts life in Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war through the characters of the fighters Jabbar and Imad (played by Jalal Kamel and Nizar...

In the 2000s, several families in Sulaimani were recording videos and archiving their family memories in various ways. Peri, in her early teens, has...

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

In a small village classroom, a teacher often transforms the blackboard with a simple white sheet. When it is taken for a burial rite, the children...

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...

Tahit Moos Al-Hallaq

An Iraqi youth attempt to portray the problems and deviations of Iraqi youth in the late fifties. The major cinemas rejected the film's screening...

A man lives a happy life with his wife and two children until he meets a seductive dancer who lures him, convincing him to escape from his dull and...

The film takes place in one of Baghdad's abandoned buildings, where Alaa meets a researcher obsessed with the city's secrets, and is swept along with...

The Daughter of the Haymaker is a real story when a British soldier who fell in love with a Kurdish girl and kidnapped her.

The play “Homeland Night” depicts National Day from the perspective of a journalist traveling in a taxi and engaging in dialogue with the...

Taking place across three different time periods, a child discovers his passion for directing after watching a film crew at work. He embarks on a...

When "Hussain" finds himself powerless to save his mother from the grip of cancer and loses all hope of affording her treatment, a mysterious hand...

In the silent halls of Sulaymaniyah University, Hama's unique bond with a cadaver unfolds a touching exploration of life's impermanence and the...

A Bedouin love story set in the desert near Najaf.

Abu Sami and his son represent two completely different mindsets. The father clings to everything old-fashioned, while the young man tries to live...