Dans un village du Kurdistan irakien, à la frontière de l'Iran et la Turquie, les habitants cherchent activement une antenne parabolique pour capter des nouvelles par satellite, car nous sommes à la veille de l'attaque des Américains en Irak... Un garçon mutilé, venant d'un autre village, accompagné de sa petite soeur et son enfant, en fait la prédiction... La guerre s'approche de plus en plus...
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
A leur sortie de prison, une jeune femme et un jeune homme musiciens décident de monter un groupe. Ils parcourent Téhéran à la rencontre d'autres musiciens underground et tentent de les convaincre de quitter l'Iran. N'ayant aucune chance de se produire à Téhéran, ils rêvent de sortir de la clandestinité et de jouer en Europe. Mais que faire sans argent et sans passeport ...
Basée sur une histoire vraie, "La saison des rhinocéros" nous raconte une histoire d'amour envoûtante qui s'étend sur trois décennies. Victime d'une vendetta personnelle pendant la période trouble de la révolution islamique en Iran, Sahel (Behrouz Vossoughi), un poète kurde, est jeté en prison avec son épouse adorée Mina (Monica Bellucci). Libérée après dix ans de détention, Mina apprend par les autorités iraniennes que son mari est mort en prison. Effondrée, elle quitte Téhéran pour Istanbul, sans savoir que son mari est toujours en vie, quelque part dans une prison du pays. Vingt ans plus tard, après avoir enfin purgé sa peine, Sahel se lance à la recherche de sa femme, dont le souvenir était la seule chose qui l'avait soutenu au long de son calvaire. Mais après s'être accroché à cette image idéalisée durant tant d'années, comment affronter la réalité ?
Kurdish composer Boran is no longer able to see the ocean, obstructed by a new building, and a tragedy befalls him…
The fate of thousands of people is unified under the tarpaulins of the refugee camps in Kobanê and in Shingal. Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi has given eight children the opportunity to use a camera to tell their own stories. Each film gives us a glimpse into the plight of the children, as seen through their own eyes. Their stories tell of young people with their whole lives ahead of them, though they’ve already lost almost everything. At a certain point, the film crew leaves the camp and follows the 13-year-old Mahmod and his sister in the search for his parent‘s house in Kobanê. The town has been ravaged by the war and all the children find is rubble. The eight films reveal the courage and openness of the young filmmakers, who share their stories with great intensity, realism and poetry, despite their harsh fate.
Mamo est un vieux musicien kurde de grande renommée qui vit au Kurdistan iranien. Depuis 35 ans, date de la prise de pouvoir par Saddam Hussein, il n'a pas eu le droit de donner de concert au Kurdistan irakien. À la chute du régime, l'interdiction est levée. L'un des fidèles admirateurs, Kako, emprunte un bus décati pour mener à bien cette mission sacrée : conduire Mamo sur le lieu de son concert, de l'autre côté de la frontière, après avoir rassemblé les dix fils de Mamo, tous musiciens et adultes (certains sont sexagénaires), et qui vivent éparpillés dans la partie iranienne du Kurdistan.
During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
In 2015, the Syrian boy Aylan appeared dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey. The image shocked and alerted the world to the refugee crisis. The film imagines what would have happened to this child until the day of his death, when the boat in which he was with a family heading to Greece turned on the high seas. The story arises from a moment of magical realism, in which Aylan's spirit emerges from his body and wanders back to the world of refugees and those provoked by war, who escape to escape for a better life.
For Nariman the pilot and Helly Luv, an aspiring singer, being Kurdish is not just an identity; it’s a full-time job. Nariman needs young recruits for his flying school—a goal made darkly comic since he just survived a plane crash—while the illustrious Helly collects Kalashnikov rifles and a sea of Kurdish flags to produce her music video. In the midst of another war against the Kurdish people, Nariman reminisces about a long-lost love, and Helly finds herself connecting with Kurdish children at a refugee camp near the Syrian border, who are in urgent need of inspiration and hope.
An Iranian official (Reza Behboodi) tries to find husbands for a group of young Kurdish women who are threatening to kill themselves because of the scarcity of marriageable men Due to wars, bad economy, and politics.
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 another religion and the second one is the Baath's agent.
This documentary shows us how a Daf elaborated. It's about a family that all their children are blinded and they're running their family business. They're making Dafs which is an Iranian hand percussion musical instrument and nowadays it's mostly played in Kurdish folk songs.