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19 articles available in total starting from 15/11/2011. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

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Review: Europa

Review: Europa

CANNES 2021: Armed with a thriller-like pace, Haider Rashid’s film plunges the viewer into the living nightmare of a hunted immigrant on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria  

15/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Imad's Childhood

Review: Imad's Childhood

Zahavi Sanjavi's devastating documentary looks at the consequences of ISIS captivity on a young Yazidi boy and his family  

05/07/2021 | Docaviv 2021

Haider Rashid’s Europa to travel to the Directors’ Fortnight

Haider Rashid’s Europa to travel to the Directors’ Fortnight

The Italian-Iraqi director’s feature film which recounts an escape along the so-called “Balkan route” has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival  

14/06/2021 | Production | Funding | Italy/Kuwait/Iraq

Review: The End Will Be Spectacular

Review: The End Will Be Spectacular

Ersin Çelik uses the 100-day resistance campaign in Diyarbakir, which started in November 2015, to highlight the divisions between the Turkish authorities and the Kurds  

27/01/2020 | IFFR 2020 | Perspectives

Review: Baghdad In My Shadow

Review: Baghdad In My Shadow

Adopting a characteristically lucid and multifaceted approach, Samir addresses the complex and sensitive subject of exile  

13/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Out of Competition

Mohamed Al-Daradji • Director

Interview: Mohamed Al-Daradji • Director

“Dialogue is the most effective way to deal with extreme violence”

TORONTO 2017: We chatted to Iraqi filmmaker Mohamed Al-Daradji, who presented his third film, The Journey, in Contemporary World Cinema at Toronto  

21/09/2017

Bekas

The young Swedish filmmaker of Kurdish origin recounts his childhood exile through a great comedy.  

23/11/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Karzan Kader • Director

"As a child, I dreamt that Rambo would help us fight Saddam"

In his film Bekas, Kurdish-Swedish filmmaker Karzan Kader evokes his family's flight from Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991, during the offensive by Saddam Hussein's troops  

14/11/2012

City without Cinemas to host British Film Festival in Iraq

A number of film initiatives have taken place in Iraq since the invasion began. But now Erbil, one of the country's largest cities, which is also thought to be the longest continually inhabited...  

15/11/2011 | Festivals | UK/Iraq

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