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- DirectorApo W. BazidiStarsAhmed MohammedRuba MohammedMourad AbdelshaidIn the midst of Trump's immigration ban, a teenage refugee Ahmed and his sister Ruba find a home at a Cleveland school for immigrants. Will they be able to reach their dreams?
- DirectorVeysi AltayOn September 12, 1980, a military coup occurred in Turkey. During the coup, led by Kenan Evren, many people were detained and/or disappeared; some were questioned under torture, some hanged, some massacred in acid wells being thrown from helicopters. One of those who disappeared was Cemil Kirbayir. Cemil's mother, Berfo Kirbayir, has done everything to find her son. However, her endeavors did not work out.
- DirectorRoland PerssonNarav Salahaddin
- DirectorVeysi AltayStarsDilxaz LeylaxSedat TopcuShakavan SorianNû Jîn New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', depicts the daily life of women guerillas, Elif Kobanê (18), Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn, joining in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in their battle against ISIS. The documentary relates the ISIS assault of 15 September 2014 and the five-month resistance by the YPJ and People's Defense Units (YPG) through the lens of three women fighter
- DirectorTaha KarimiIn 1988 the Iraqi Ba'ath party murdered and buried 182,000 Kurds in 350 mass graves. Only 10 people managed to escape. Faraj climbed out from amongst the dead and was taken to the USA by 'Human Rights Watch'. Realizing that few people were aware of the genocidal 'Anfal' massacres, Faraj formed the 'Iraqi Mass Graves Survivors' group. He returned to Kurdistan where, with four other survivors, he bought 1001 red apples and cloves and distributed them to families who had lost members. These apples and cloves became symbols of reconciliation and peace.
- DirectorShoresh VakiliStarsFereydoon AnsariAn old man cleans the cinema salon after the release of the movie and takes care of a stain on the screen.
- DirectorKudret GunesStarsIsmail BesikçiHediye DagliPiruzhan DogrulLeyla Zana, the first woman Kurdish MP to be elected to the Turkish Parliament in 1992, was impisoned in 1994 for 15 years for speaking in Kurdish in the Parliament. Kudret Gunes' personal look at the life of Zana takes her to her birth-place, friends and exiled husband.
- DirectorVeysi AltayA documentary film about the life and struggle of those trapped between life and death.
- DirectorKazim ÖzA film about the remaining people of a remote village in North Kurdistan. Journey with Kazim Öz as he revisits his hometown with a new sense of self. It was by the end of 1997 when Kazim Öz re-visited his village after many years. No one remained except for a few elderly people reflecting on their loneliness, the many years etched on their faces. They had been abandoned. Every inch of earth, imbued with memories, every trace of the former lively atmosphere of life was gone.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsSaim CalarGamze CalarIsmehan CalarEvery year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down when the eldest son falls in love.