Zirek Movies

A small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jay Abdo

Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Corraface

In the vibrant African neighborhood of Château d'Eau in Paris, Charles is the smoothest of all the hustlers. His job: to fill the districts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacky Ido

Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abdullah Taher

Alan, Jan and Liya, born in Kurdistan, raised in Stuttgart, want to grant their deceased mother her final wish: to be buried beside her husband, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Murat Seven

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barış Atay

Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born...

Genre: Action

Cast: Dilan Gwyn

A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tchéky Karyo

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yılmaz Güney

Genre: Drama

Cast: Caroline Ducey

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zirek

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Christina Ricci

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

In a dull, desolate town, Joy is an orphan who lives her faith with intensity and almost never leaves her church. Until the day she meets Andriy, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonia Bonny

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tuncel Kurtiz

Three Turkish workers traverse Iraq in a jeep heading to an American military base construction only to find themselves confronting adolescent Iraqi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aziz Dhiouer

Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laetitia Dosch

Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio

Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani