6th KIIFF - Official Selection - Kurdish Category

Kurdish Film / Filmmaker

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During the 2015 clashes in Diyarbakır, a nurse helps a neighbor access psychiatric care amid a collapsing healthcare system. As the patient’s story unfolds, it becomes clear that the illness is not only personal, but a direct consequence of war.

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A girl has a strong interest in playing the guitar, but her father, due to traditional beliefs, only allows her to learn guitar from a female teacher…

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In a Kurdish village suffering from drought, a young boy named Parwer watches as his family’s water well runs dry. His father explains that the rain no longer comes due to human actions and global warming. After listening to his father, Parwer becomes determined to bring the rain back, holding onto hope and trying in his own way to restore life to his village.

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A man in his thirties returns to his village, Xaşxaş, after many years. During his brief two-day visit, he is confronted with his mother tongue which he can no longer speak, and the culture he has long forgotten. As he reconnects with the place he once belonged to, he realizes that he has become a stranger to his own roots.

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Yousef, a 45-year-old man with strict religious and extremist beliefs, lives with his family in a village on the outskirts of the city. He makes a living by collecting and recycling scrap materials.

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Left jobless and hopeless in the aftermath of war, Sidar unable to marry because of economic hardship begins searching for treasure at night with his childhood friend Fırat. With every shovel of earth, he digs deeper into his past. A late-night dig leads Sidar not to buried treasure, but to a far more haunting discovery: the remains of his father, who was killed years ago in a politically motivated, unsolved case.

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A father who is himself disabled and an author. His only source of income and livelihood is writing. He treats one pain with another, sells his car so that he can publish his book, and manages life with his 13-year-old son, who also has Down syndrome.

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You are alive as long as someone remembers your name.

In a Syrian intelligence service prison, a university student witnesses, through the narrow food hatch of his cell, events that mirror the horrific reality of his nation. Hope is born, as prisoners keep alive the fading light of resistance in a world that has chosen to forget them.

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While life appears to follow its ordinary course, a woman finds herself trapped within memories that refuse to let go. As the boundaries between past and present begin to blur, she is forced to confront an unspoken reality. Little Fish is a human story about memory, loss, and the struggle to move forward in the shadow of absence.

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Hana, a young woman, lives with an elderly man and experiences love for the first time with a young man named Ardalan.

Following the village's traditions, the elderly man plans to marry off their young daughter. Determined to prevent her daughter from sharing the same fate, Hana does everything in her power to stop the marriage. She seeks Ardalan's help to ensure her daughter isn’t wed to a man as old as her own husband. However, it seems Ardalan shares the same mindset as her husband.

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A young worker, facing the possibility of death at any moment, wants to be certain before he dies that his beloved truly loves him.

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After a devastating loss, Oraman, a quiet teacher in a remote mountain village, prepares to leave the life he once knew. In the silence of parting, a blue bicycle left behind begins to pass from hand to hand, subtly connecting those who remain.

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Banaz is a five-years-old girl when she is circumcised. She is now 25 years old and a talented student at the College of Fine Arts/Painting Department. She is preparing to open an exhibition of her paintings. Zhiyan is Banaz's close friend, she works in the company office of a wealthy businessman and tries to secure a sponsorship from him for Banaz’s exhibition.

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An Iranian student living abroad, decides to free her brother from detention during the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement. However, when she sends the money, a bitter truth is revealed: it's demanded for delivering her brother's body.

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A young man, crushed by the weight of a turbulent world, finds himself at a life-changing crossroads.

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Kamyar is a young soldier caught between military duty and familial responsibility. At the same time, he must cope with his ailing father’s physical decline and make a difficult decision about the fate of a wounded horse.

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In a mathematics class, a student criticizes the teacher’s solution. This leads to a logical conflict between them. The student tries to prove his point to the teacher in a different and realistic way, while also calming the teacher’s anger. In the end, he succeeds.

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A newlywed couple welcomes the husband's long time friend from abroad for an intimate dinner. As laughter and tension mingle, the husband begins to sense an unsettling closeness between his wife and their guest. Fueled by suspicion, jealousy, and pride, he considers crossing a line of his own, one that blurs guilt, desire, and the quiet undoing of trust.

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A traumatized Halabja survivor experiences a daily illusion of her lost family sharing a meal with her. However, the moment the haunting scent of apples, the sign of the chemical attack, fills the room, the illusion shatters, leaving her to face her painful reality.

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In the early 1900s, a 38-year-old man rode through the villages of Diyarbakır on horseback. He fell off his horse and died at a crossroads between three villages. Children who witnessed this immediately informed their elders. Scholars from three religions (a Muslim Kurdish mullah, an Armenian Christian priest, and a Yazidi Kurdish sheikh) began discussing the deceased's religion in the village square, placing the deceased before them.

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A woman, brutally assaulted and imprisoned by ISIS militants, is held in chains within an isolated room. Surrounded by fragments of destruction, she constructs a rudimentary slingshot, an act that gradually transforms into a symbol of survival and defiance.

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A young woman wanders through an eerily empty city, consumed by a profound sense of isolation. As she moves through fragments of her daily life, the boundary between reality and her inner world gradually dissolves, blurring perception and emotion. The film invites the audience to inhabit her solitude, experiencing the quiet weight of loneliness as it reshapes her sense of self and the world around her.

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A boy realizes he has a disease after killing his girlfriend.