Nazmi Kırık
Nacimiento : 1976-01-01, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Father
Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?
Seymen
Mientras canta en una boda que implosiona, un músico nómada se enamora de la novia, que tiene problemas con su familia. Ahora, él debe salvarle la vida.
Mehmet
Rabiye Kurnaz es una mujer aparentemente corriente, excepto porque es un terremoto. Cuidando de sus hijos y mucho más, es la que lleva la batuta en su casa de Bremen. Poco después de los ataques del 11-S, en 2001, su hijo Murat es acusado de terrorismo y es uno de los primeros enviados a la cárcel de Guantánamo. Esto marca el inicio de un viaje hacia el corazón de la política mundial para esta decidida mujer alemana-turca. Acompañada del abogado de derechos humanos Bernhard Docke, luchará por la liberación de su hijo.
Mustafa
Following a trial and a verdict, a family tries to find their way back to normality. They are forced, however, to deal with the expectations of the Turkish community to which they belong.
Attila
Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader, falls in disgrace when she gives birth to her second child out of wedlock.
Şemsettin
Durante la década de 1960, un hombre discapacitado se encuentra en un matrimonio concertado con la niña más hermosa del pueblo.
AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war. After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary. So traumatized by the war Salih returns to Syria to recover his.
Nazif
May 22nd, 1963. Unhappy with the existing social and political situation in Turkey, a group of military officers has planned a coup d’état to take down the government in Ankara. Meanwhile in Istanbul, their conspirators have undertaken the vital mission of taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement about the coup. But nothing goes to plan. Faced with a number of obstacles, including a sudden rainstorm, the absence of the radio station technician, a betrayal, the lack of feedback from Ankara and their very own inefficiency, the conspirators scramble to keep their plan on track and announce the success of the coup – that is, if the coup in the capital has taken place at all.
An unfair game filled with lies and tricks played around a table covetously by big brothers of the neighbourhood... The nested game...
Şemsettin
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.
Alan
Kurdish 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 achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.
Miro
Carta al Rey retrata a cinco personas con diferentes orígenes en una excursión a un centro de refugiados en Oslo, un cambio bienvenido en sus vidas diarias que transcurren de modo monótona. Cada uno con su propia historia y agenda llegan a la ciudad capital de un país que parece ofrecer todo lo que ellos esperaban. Cada uno explora sus posibilidades, un amor secreto, una nueva vida, una mentira piadosa, cumpliendo un sueño y vengar la muerte de un esposo. Sus historias están unidas entre sí por una carta escrita por Mirza de 83 años que desea entregar al rey de Noruega.
Ferhat
Ferhat
Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, that is, an extraordinary day changes her life - and the lives of everyone else in Midyat. For the illiterate, uneducated Xate becomes Mayor of Midyat! While she takes on her mayoral duties much as she does those in her house, the infantile rivalry between her children in municipal matters leads to adventures that have the Midyat folk howling with laughter.
Vater
The twelve-year old immigrant Veysel and his family have a hard time to become integrated into Austrian life. They have more and more inner family-oriented problems. Veysel's neighbour Cem teaches him how to pronounce a poem in German for school. At the time when Veysel wants to take the courage to recite it to his secret love Ana, the immigration police disrupts his plans
Mamat
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.
Jallal
Azad
On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.
Tekin Yayladali
Cuando un músico local y su banda se ven obligados a tocar en un desfile militar, su hija urde un plan para que la música suene subversiva.
Hıdır Durulmaz
Mientras el líder de una banda recluta a un imitador de Superman con tendencias suicidas, una mujer ligada al grupo planea vengarse de sus miembros y de su nuevo héroe.
Ako
Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
Haydar
In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor, an openly gay African youth with blond hair, makes his money by dealing drugs and dreams of one day living in Australia. Baran, meanwhile, is a Kurdish bicycle delivery boy living in constant fear of deportation, who keeps his past in a video camera. The two form a bond when they meet, and their shared struggles to survive soon develop into a relationship that is threatened when Baran loses his job.
Berzan
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.