SONG OF RAIN

Director: Jafar Noormohamadi

East Kurdistan (Iran) 2006 / 19m / Farsi, Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles / PG

Baran is a primary schoolgirl whose older sister is just about to get married to her cousin. Then he is arrested for collecting mines.

THE WINDOW

Director: Khalid Heme law

South Kurdistan (Iraq) 2007 / 15m / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles / PG

A wheelchair-bound elderly man watches a romantic young couple by the lakeside, and remembers the sweetness of love and life.

SHAWBO

Director: Mihemmed Saeed

South Kurdistan (Iraq) 2005 / 13m / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles / PG

Shawbo is a young shepherd who becomes the victim of the past regime when he is used as a target by trigger happy soldiers.

MOONLESS NIGHT

Director: Kamo Jamal

South Kurdistan (Iraq) 2007 / 17m / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles / PG

A look at the harsh treatment that women face from the combination of religion, society and the law which pushes them to the point of madness or suicide

FACE TO FACE

Director: Sahim Omar

Belgium 2007 / 22m / Dutch with English subtitles / PG

Ali is a migrant from an Islamic country who comes to Belgium and, in order to stay, gets married to an older Belgian woman. He is soon cheating on his wife and when she goes to visit her parents, Ali invites his young girlfriend home.