Iraq Movies

A visual study of immortality through death. The demise of life brings forwards its own permanence.

Founded in 1917, the Shabandar Café in Al Mutanabbi Street in the heart of the old centre of Baghdad was a cultural landmark where generations...

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

When "Hussain" finds himself powerless to save his mother from the grip of cancer and loses all hope of affording her treatment, a mysterious hand...

Cineholic follows a group of friends from Kirkuk and their love affairs with film since they were young. The story traverses their memories related...

"In this surreal arthouse short film set in a world far beyond our Milky Way, life is filled with secrets and mysteries, where everything defies the...

Wisam, a soldier in the Iraqi counter-terrorism service, had left his child during the war, and as fate decides, he happens to find a left-alone...

A Yazidi refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan is home tomore than 20,000 refugees, many of whom are victims of terrorist attacks by ISIS. Shilan is a...

Mekhak, a compassionate and capable donkey, lives with a family in a village. His owner, believing that Mekhak is no longer useful, decides to...

The story of Yazidi women in a wake of a heavy war, after a terrible trauma. They are ready to return to their imperfect life, but their children...

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...

Two Friends both are in love with a Kurdish Muslim girl. The girl's parents don't want their girl to marry any of the boys, the first one is from...

From the bleeding stillness of the night, day is birthed.

The film is about layers of wealthy bourgeois society and political classes that have turned people's lives into a game that has made people suffer.

A documentary about the life of a Kurdish Quran reciter (Raad Mohammed Kurdi) who is a Kurdish Quran reciter, whose fame has spread all over the...

killers is everywhere

This footage is part of an old archive taken by the filmmaker’s father Abbas Abdulrazaq, a former Kurdish fighter and cameraman. In 1985 he...

Made for a film school assignment that required a real documentary, the filmmakers instead created a fake documentary disguised as nonfiction,...

The screams of the looming night tremble. Having found no voice to escape.

The movie follows the story of a guy who's notorious in his village for his evil eyes, wrecking havoc on anything he lays his eyes on.