Iraq Movies

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...

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...

Harun, a Kurdish freedom fighter, is haunted by the memories of war that have left him with post-traumatic stress, and burdened by a profound guilt....

Hama is a young man living on rent. He loses his job and, as a result, is forced to vacate his home. While packing his belongings, he comes across an...

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

A group travel on a broken minibus. Their travel is laden with danger as they try to avoid Saddam Hussein's soldiers and security forces.

Inspired by the life and poetry of Sargon Boulos, this film explores exile, memory, and the enduring connection between a person and their homeland.

The narrative Ali Hussein, takes us on an environmental journey through Nasiriyah, revealing the tragedies and struggles faced by people, animals,...

A young boy from Halabja is in the final stages of his filmmaking studies. He decides to make a short documentary about the survivors of the 1988...

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...

Dr. Nabil is a gentle and committed surgeon and father who works at a small, understaffed Baghdad hospital suffering from a lack of equipment and...

In this animated film project, Sherko Abbas draws on his own childhood memories of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, as well as using found images and...

Journey through time filmed through the years of the eyes of Geovrz and through the light of experimental cinema

A short horror film about a 17-year-old girl who discovers an old camera that can capture the future.

'A Swing in Atayfiyah' dwells in the memory of homes and friendships left behind in Iraq, the irrecoverable sense of belonging, and the dissonance of...

A haunting animated short reflecting on the Halabja chemical attack through the memories of a survivor for whom the sweet smell of apples became an...

A young man driven by a distant lover to return to his roots, searching for answers to his inner conflicts