Once Upon a Time in Kurdistan

FLYING FISHES 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Mohammad Towrivarian East Kurdistan / 2019 / 15 min / Kurdish, Persian with English Subtitles -A new teacher in the village begins to notice that one of his students and the only girl in the class doesn’t seem to talk much. One day he finds a cigarette burn […]

MY CAT IN COMPETITION 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Imad Mahmadany South Kurdistan / 2018 / 15 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Even when humans are at their most desperate, there will always be someone that cares about us unknowingly. But perhaps that someone is not human. This story is about the surprise that […]

I AM RAINING DOWN INTO THE CITY 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Kasim Ördek North Kurdistan / 15 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -55-year-old Sait lives in Diyarbakır with his family. His daughter Hacer gets left by her fiancee, Isa. Sait, who doesn’t accept this situation, begins to look for Isa, who is also […]

TROUSERS IN COMPETITION 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Tahsin Özmen North Kurdistan / 2019 / 15 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -During the modernization law in Turkey where men must wear trousers and hats in the cities, in a small village in eastern Turkey (North Kurdistan) there is a man named Dilo who wants […]

PORTAL 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Ayoub Sheikh Ahmadi East Kurdistan / 2019 / 25 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Bakhtiar takes his showers in an old public bathroom. One night he finds a golden rock and takes this treasure for himself. Suddenly some mysterious events begin to happen. 20th August, 2020 at 6:30pm

ILLEGAL 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Saman Mustefa South Kurdistan / 2019 / 9 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Reving and his friend Nechir, who lives in a conservative part of Kurdistan, pursue their usual fun, which is considered normal adolescent fun in other parts of the world, but a taboo in their society. […]

SLAUGHTER RECIPIENT OF THE JURY SPECIAL MENTION 📷Short Fiction Directed by Saman Hosseinpuor / Ako Zandkarimi East Kurdistan / 2019 / 13 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -Ghasem is forced to sell their cow to spend a hard winter in their village. As soon as the sale is made, the cow goes missing. 20th […]

HARMONICA 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Ashkan Saedpanah East Kurdistan / 2019 / 17 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles. -A truck driver decides to come back home early for his wife’s birthday. Slowly he begins to realise that his wife is hiding something from him. 20th August, 2020 at 5:30pm

RHINO 📷 Short Fiction Directed by Armin Pourmohamad (Sahel Mohammadi) East Kurdistan / 2018 / 21 min / Persian with English Subtitles. -An elderly couple lives alone in a house. The man is suffering from Alzheimer’s and his wife cares for him. One evening, there is a home invasion that turns their life of routine upside […]