My Small Land (2022)

A mentally handicapped girl has been raped a few months ago. Her parents, Jalal and Maryam are trying to abort the baby and get rid of it but something worse happens

Bilal tem 17 anos e vem do Iraque. Deixou a sua terra, pouco depois de a namorada ter emigrado para Inglaterra, com o objetivo de a voltar a ver. Mas ao chegar a França, no porto de Calais, depara-se com muitos emigrantes ilegais que também tentam chegar a Londres. É então que Bilal decide aprender a nadar para atravessar o canal da Mancha. Na piscina municipal, o rapaz conhece Simon, um instrutor de natação e o seu cúmplice nesta perigosa viagem.

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

Em busca de estudantes e de pessoas interessadas em aprender a ler e escrever, um grupo de professores vaga por uma região de extremo perigo na fronteira do Irã com o Iraque.

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.

A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years of house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. The charge: supporting terrorist activities. From now on an invisible border runs through her garden in a Turkish village, which she repeatedly trespasses. Her older son is torn between obedience and rebellion. How far will he go to protect his mother from further punishment?

Hundreds of Western volunteers have joined Kurdish armies in Syria and Iraq in their efforts to fight the Islamic State. What drives some Canadians to put their lives on the line?

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkish-Syrian border. On the one hand the ISIS, in the other Erdogan’s Turkey. In the middle the borders and one hope. This hope is called Rojava, only one point on the chart of a troubled region, a region of resistance and an example of grassroots democracy that speaks about gender equality, self-determination of peoples and peaceful coexistence.

12-year-old Dyab is a Kurdish Yazidi boy living at Arbat refugee camp, after the horrendous attacks by the Islamic States on their villages at Shingal Mountains (Sinjar). However, Dyab’s dream is, to become a filmmaker and actor and tell the stories and sufferings of his people to the outside world.

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.

The story of this film is an aesthetic narration of the death of a Kurdish Family, along the 20th century.

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

In the 1990s, some newspapers were not allowed to enter the Diyarbakir region, under a state of emergency at that time, although they were legal. Children like Bawer and Hebûn, who were part of the distribution group, would secretly collect these newspapers from outside the city at a previously agreed location and take them to the planned meeting place in the city. There, the children changed their clothes and went out to distribute them, under the guise of other work. But they were constantly followed by those who saw the newspaper as dangerous and wanted to prevent its dissemination. Çerx is a testament to the conditions under which these newspapers were distributed to readers and the difficulties encountered.

Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures moments in the lives of diverse ethnic communities who struggle to survive when life descends into chaos.

A village, in the hearts of mountains, is totally empty. Still it is not. The village comes to life back with past voices. There is no people in the village. But their voices exist. There are no animals and no living things. But their voices exist. The past voices, together with scenes happenning right now, create memory about what happened there. It is the story of people, animals, nature and all the living things of a village before it is ruined.

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

Prot é um homem misterioso, que vive dizendo ter vindo do planeta K-Pax, distante mil anos-luz da Terra. Por causa disto ele é internado em um hospício, onde conhece o Dr. Mark Powell, um psiquiatra disposto a provar que ele na verdade sofre de um grave distúrbio de personalidade. Mas as descrições de Prot sobre como é a vida em seu planeta acabam encantando os demais pacientes do hospício, fazendo com que eles queiram ir com Prot quando ele diz que está próximo o dia em que deverá voltar ao seu planeta.

Quando vários navios são abalroados e afundados por um misterioso monstro marinho nas águas do Pacífico, um professor de biologia marinha francês é convidado pelo governo americano a integrar a tripulação de um navio que irá tentar caçá-lo. Mas o que ninguém sabe é que o monstro é um submarino com um misterioso capitão, senhor de um notável saber que não está disposto a partilhar.

Há um lugar em nosso planeta que é mais incomum do que qualquer outro - o menos conhecido e o mais misterioso. É um lugar semelhante ao espaço sideral, no qual as noções convencionais de tempo e espaço se diluem. É um lugar mágico e perigoso no qual o corpo humano, bem como seu espírito, precisa se adaptar. É o único lugar onde um homem chamado Jacques Mayol realmente se sente em casa. É o mar - a "Imensidão Azul". Jacques e Enzo são amigos desde a infância e compartilham uma paixão pelo esporte perigoso do mergulho livre. O mergulhador profissional Jacques optou por seguir os passos de seu pai, que morreu no mar quando Jacques era um menino. Para perplexidade dos cientistas, Jacques possui a habilidade notável de ajustar sua freqüência cardíaca e padrão de respiração, de modo que seus sinais vitais se assemelhem mais aos dos golfinhos do que dos homens. Existem 3 versões: 168 m = do diretor 132 m = original 118 m = curta

Comissária de bordo (Pam Grier) trafica dinheiro para os Estados Unidos, a mando de um vendedor de armas. Quando dois policiais oferecem um acordo para que ela entregue o bandido, a mulher decide dar a volta em todos os envolvidos, com um olho na liberdade e outro numa mala cheia de dinheiro.