Iraq Movies

Return to Haifa is based on Kanafani’s novel the plot of which takes place in 1967, when Palestinian refugees living in the newly occupied...

Haibat and six of her grandchildren are making furnaces (tandoor ovens) under the burning sunlight of Kirkuk, but they don't have any bread to eat...

Little brother (Xanî) is asked by his mother to wake his big brother (Millet) for breakfast. What seems like a simple mission turns into a...

An elderly care agency in Germany assigns Khalil, a Kurdish Syrian immigrant, to care for a lonely German woman in her home in Essen; he finds...

An upcoming movie by anmar ali

The play takes place within a critical social comedy framework, where it satirically reviews the concerns of the Iraqi citizen and the contradictions...

The film begins in 1980, the beginning of Saddam Hussein's presidency, and continues until 2003, the fall of his government.

A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it...

Milo, a strong-willed feminist, discovers the long-sought power to wander around freely in Baghdad by dressing in her brother’s clothes....

A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering...

in 1988 Saddam attacks Halabja, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. After the chemical bombardment of Halabja, an Iranian war photographer is the first man to...

The plot centers on a struggling taxi driver who crosses paths with a wealthy woman and learns that her husband is seriously ill and in need of a...

The movie follows Kurdistan during the Covid-19 crisis in 2019, and how it ruined relationships between loved ones.

From the deep south to the extreme north, a trip through Iraq where the amazing diversity of Iraqi society is unveiled. Haunting chants are...

Against the violent yet stunning backdrop of the Qandil Mountains, a film that asks the most basic yet painful of questions about war, love, and lost...

A young Kurdish mujahid, regrets his decision to join the jihadist movement. He is torn between his father's expectations and the mujahideen leader...

The story tells the life of a photographer who lived in areas of Iraqi Kurdistan and in areas where there was genocide. He has photographed the...

A drama centered on the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women during a journey across the desert to Mecca. When the eldest...

Sada, meaning «echo» in Arabic, was conceived as Sada for Iraqi art by the Baghdad-born Rijin Sahakian. Sahakian set up the initiative,...

The first Iraqi film influenced by the Italian neorealism film movement, characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. The...