Iraq Movies

As for human natures that denies the life's end and loves the life's adventure, the newborn child loves life's challenges. Hence, coming into life's...

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...

A short film about man found a bag of money

Opened in an old house in 1992 by a close-knit group of Iraqi artists and writers, the Hiwar Center is a gathering place for those who are interested...

After a heist ends in a deadly betrayal, a mortally wounded thief refuses to accept his fate. Bleeding out in his final hours, he desperately tries...

Thousands of Iraqis have been displaced by sectarian violence and have had to flee their homes, seeking refuge in safer parts of the country. Al...

Sixty-year-old beggar Qisma wants to end her life. But her dog, Bobby, is holding her back.

Muhannad is a professional hunter, but he is a hunter of another kind! He inherited this profession from his father, in this gloomy city, many wars...

Hama is a young man living on rent. He loses his job and, as a result, is forced to vacate his home. While packing his belongings, he comes across an...

In the final film of the Encounters on the Tigris trilogy, Abbas travels by boat to Al-Amarah to discover the rich diversity of flora and fauna along...

Traces artist Sherko Abbas’ journey along Iraq’s Tigris River in June and October 2022 in search of its mythical past and present...

A group travel on a broken minibus. Their travel is laden with danger as they try to avoid Saddam Hussein's soldiers and security forces.

When a college student leaves his rubbish behind, his whole day takes a strange turn.

Living in a house with her sisters, mother and brother without electricity and surrounded by constant danger, director Hiba Bassem ruminates about...

In 1929, Diessmann, a German scholar, discovers an ancient map of a Kurdish Admiral, struggling to find out the map's secrets, and expose one of the...

A short film about Kurdish women working for their lives

Sarah lives in a fierce mental struggle and deep and deadly imagination. She dreams of the artificial beauty she sees every day on social media, but...