Iraq Movies
- 2007

A Candle for The Shabandar Café
A Candle for The Shabandar Café02007HD
Founded in 1917, the Shabandar Café in Al Mutanabbi Street in the heart of the old centre of Baghdad was a cultural landmark where generations...
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- 2022

Encounters on the Tigris, Part 3
Encounters on the Tigris, Part 302022HD
In the final film of the Encounters on the Tigris trilogy, Abbas travels by boat to Al-Amarah to discover the rich diversity of flora and fauna along...
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- 2026

Ditches & Dreams
Ditches & Dreams02026HD
In a Baghdad that’s finding its footing again, 19-year-old Yas transforms its cracked asphalt into his skateboard runway, gliding beyond...
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- 2026

Tears of Moonlight
Tears of Moonlight02026HD
A weeping moon. A longing body of water. A non-dimensional work exploring the absence that forms. An ode to reflections.
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- 2025

Footprint
Footprint02025HD
Diyar, a young environmental activist suffering from leukemia, seeks to save and protect a unique bird species from extinction, Will his illness...
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- 2021

Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue62021HD
A century after the establishment of modern schools and four decades after the adoption of Article 15 of the Iranian constitution. The right to...
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- 1970

Blue Wednesday
Blue Wednesday01970HD
A young filmmaker, unable to express his emotions in reality, retreats behind the lens of his camera to create a surreal 'blue' world, seeking to...
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- 2021

It's Better There
It's Better There02021HD
As for human natures that denies the life's end and loves the life's adventure, the newborn child loves life's challenges. Hence, coming into life's...
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- 2025

Beneath Which Rivers Flow
Beneath Which Rivers Flow02025HD
In the marshlands of southern Iraq, Ibrahim feels like a stranger in the world. His sole companion is his faithful buffalo. But a looming...
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- 2021

Silence Along the River
Silence Along the River02021HD
This footage is part of an old archive taken by the filmmaker’s father Abbas Abdulrazaq, a former Kurdish fighter and cameraman. In 1985 he...
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- 2014

The Pending Echo
The Pending Echo72014HD
An observational field documentary shot in Baghdad and Najaf during the civil movement on February 14, 2014. Through direct visual immersion and...
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- 1970

Where the Balloon Led Me
Where the Balloon Led Me01970HD
Ali, a young Arab man living as an expatriate in Duhok, leads a lonely and isolated life, trapped in a heavy daily routine and struggling with a...
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- 2023

Size
Size02023HD
The topic of the work deals with the idea that adults are of size, their behavior is not clear by the smaller of them .. Size is an important...
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- 1970

Bêmal
Bêmal01970HD
August 3, 2024 marked the tenth anniversary of the genocide committed by the so-called “Islamic State” against the Yazidis in northern...
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- 2018

Abdullah and Leilah
Abdullah and Leilah02018HD
Haunted by the memories of his childhood in Baghdad, Abdullah retreats into his deep past. Leilah seeks one last moment of connection with her father...
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- 2024

White on Black
White on Black02024HD
A boy whom his routine was white, faces black color
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- 2023

Distant Shot of a Tree
Distant Shot of a Tree02023HD
A young man driven by a distant lover to return to his roots, searching for answers to his inner conflicts
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- 2012

Sala's Fumble
Sala's Fumble02012HD
Sala and a friend watch a football match between Argentina and Brazil, sparking an argument and a gun war. Sala kills his friend's father and moves...
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- 2009

Whisper with the Wind
Whisper with the Wind7.72009HD
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
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- 2019

Red Land
Red Land42019HD
On March 16th, 1988, Saddam Hussein’s regime led a chemical attack against the people of Halabja that resulted in over 5,000 deaths. Though...
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