Iraq Movies

Sala and a friend watch a football match between Argentina and Brazil, sparking an argument and a gun war. Sala kills his friend's father and moves...

Iraqi film directed by Jafar Ali.

It Tells the Story of an Introverted Young Boy.

A historical Kurdish drama exploring collective resilience, artistic perseverance, and cultural continuity across generations in Southern Kurdistan...

Recorded in 1983, Baghdad landmarks on a tour

A Kurdish-Swedish soccer team’s journey to become champions and a symbol of resilience for the Kurdish people.

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....

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

Wadi Al-Salam in Najaf, Iraq, is the world's largest cemetery, with over 5 million graves. Its hereditary undertakers share their stories.

A weeping moon. A longing body of water. A non-dimensional work exploring the absence that forms. An ode to reflections.

In the final film of the Encounters on the Tigris trilogy, Abbas travels by boat to Al-Amarah to discover the rich diversity of flora and fauna along...

A gripping Kurdish drama dealing with guilt and family fracture after an accident creates deep emotional trauma between two brothers.

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...

The eye stretches as far as the cosmos, and burns the earth.

Encounters on the Tigris follows a journey taken by artist and filmmaker Sherko Abbas in 2022, along the ancient Tigris river, in search of...

In the marshlands of southern Iraq, Ibrahim feels like a stranger in the world. His sole companion is his faithful buffalo. But a looming...

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

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...

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

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