Iraq Movies

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...

A Bedouin love story set in the desert near Najaf.

Milo, a strong-willed feminist, discovers the long-sought power to wander around freely in Baghdad by dressing in her brother’s clothes....

"We don't have time for song" discusses the issues and problems of contemporary humans, especially within romantic relationships and families.

The footage of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein crawling out of a hole in the ground in 2003 is iconic. Now, 20 years later, the man who dug that hole...

Arman and Roya come to Tehran with greed, to earn enough money for a trip to Canada and enroll in a university. They meet a retailer named Esi who...

In a place that offers no hope, Sabreen, burdened by blame and trapped by expectations, yearns for a fleeting moment of freedom to reclaim what...

After the black crows attack his land, a rich landowner gathers the village children and turns them into Scarecrows

The play takes place within a critical social comedy framework, where it satirically reviews the concerns of the Iraqi citizen and the contradictions...

A man is tired of life for a long time and he wants to commit suicide, but...

From their 'Purple House' in the South of Lebanon, French-Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel and his Lebanese wife, the painter Nour Ballouk, start...

The first Iraqi film influenced by the Italian neorealism film movement, characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. The...

A social drama about Abu Haila, who tries to impose his opinions on others. But his decisions turn out to be wrong every time and he finds himself in...

Fragmented views of deserts and Baghdad interiors evoke a society shaped by war, repression and resilience, linking cosmic beliefs with history and...

Throughout history, powerful people contacted things from beyond space and time. They called them angels. Demons. Gods. They believed they were...

A distressed young mother, Suhailah, struggles to cope with caring for her daughter and remaining afoot in life whilst also enduring anticipation of...

It's 2004, and the news that Saddam Hussein has died sends shock waves through the Middle East. Shaho is the son of an elderly man of Iranian Kurdish...

In a dramatic context, Rahoumi experiences the final moments of his life as his life flashes before his eyes. He reminisces about his wife, who was...

Tofiq and his father watch Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, and because of their differences they get into a debate; to settle it, they decide to have a...