Iraq Movies

A young boy from Halabja is in the final stages of his filmmaking studies. He decides to make a short documentary about the survivors of the 1988...

As you go to bed to rest from the fatigue of the day, you find yourself unable to sleep, overwhelmed by excessive thoughts, drifting back through the...

A story within a story, fragments from the filmmaker's life in post civil-war Beirut lead into a fictional tale of two lovers and fatal madness....

Director Mounaf Shaker lives in the Dora District of Baghdad, which was once a lively area full of palm groves and people of all kinds. Now, US tanks...

Born in the home of a Baghdad midwife, actor/director Zahraa witnessed violence against women from early on. Now she’s pointing the camera in...

An independent Kurdish short film that highlights the conflict between individuals and their true selves, particularly in societies that suppress...

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...

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...

a group has been hired for a mission to rescue a hostage in a way far farm at country road

This short, autobiographical documentary combines phone monologues, dashboard camera footage, and visual accounts from social media to make a unique,...

A spin-off from the Abandoned city movie focusing on the mysterious man and his son in the night of the Abandoned city

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to...

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 symbolic Kurdish short film directed by Karina Mariwan that explores thresholds of memory, isolation, and courage through a solitary doorway.

The film illustrates life in a village on the border between Iraq and Iran, an eight-year war zone during the 1980s. These people were once suffering...

Omar, a student at Baghdad University, works extra hours as a taxi driver to support his wife and four daughters. While negotiating his dilapidated...

A child becomes seriously ill and eventually dies as a result of his father’s actions. The father overcomes guilt and grief, withdraws from...

An archaeological documentary exploring the famous Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, examining the burial rituals of Neanderthals and...

A short film about the horror of what would happen if an invention in the future makes possible the viewing of our past? What would happen if our...

Director Hiba Bassem returns to Baghdad from Kirkuk in 2005 to finish her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. This video diary chronicles her first...