During the 90’s there were many unreported killings against the Kurdish people at the hands of the Turkish Hizbullah organisation, an islamic political group working with the Turkish deep state. Farqin (Silvan) is a small town in Kurdistan but many killings took place in here on a daily basis and in broad daylight. This is the story of Uncle (Xalê) Nureddin and his wife Zubeyde whose young son Dersim who was killed by Hizbullah after his big brother joined PKK.

We all love cinema but cinema can also be a cruel art. This is a short documentary which shows how.

This documentary offers a never-before-seen insight into the diversity of the gay experience in Turkey and the difficulties of homosexual discovery in a predominantly homophobic society, where “other” sexual orientations are hidden, repressed or met with hostility.

This is a documentary about Diyarbakir prison where some of the most horrific atrocities of state terror in recent history took place against Kurdish political prisoners in the 80s. The documentary exposes how the use of systematic torture and turkification policies were imposed by the state upon Kurdish prisoners. While the Turkish military authorities describe the prison as a “military school”, the prisoners describe it as “years of indescribable brutality”. The only way to break the chain of atrocities was to resist and sacrifice yourself. The prisoners took up the challenge to break it and 3 decades later director Cayan Demirel takes up the challenge again to show us what happened.

Qadir Abdullahzada, who was also known as Qale Mere or Mame Qale, was born the son of a poor shepherd in village of Kulija in East Kurdistan (Iran), and remains one of most renowned of the Kurd’s traditional musicians. Born in poverty and dying in poverty, Qale Mare, who played Shimshal (Ney, long flute), a Kurdish traditional music instrument, passed away this year but remains dearly loved and respected by Kurds from all the regions of Kurdistan.

According to some statistics, more than 12,000 women, mostly between the ages of 13 and 18, have met a gruesome death at the hands of relatives in “honor killings” in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991.  These girls and women are usually killed by the men of their family who are convinced the victim has stained the family’s honor. Quest for Honor, is a searing and necessary documentary about the still all-too-prevalent practice of honor killings in South Kurdistan. The film centres on cases taken up by the Women’s Media and Education Center in Sulaimaniyah, Kurdish Iraq.