Saturday 13th October 2018
Catrin Striebeck, Christoph Bach, Samy Abdel Fattah, Bengin Ali, Erol Afsin and Adil Abdolrahman
The German doctor Martina is kidnapped by a Sunnite group, back in Iraq. Her confinement becomes an ordeal of her cognitive ability and her loyalty. In the end the meaningfulness of her own existence is questioned.
Sunday 15th April 2018
Mina Sadic, Sasun Sayan, Murat Seven, Wedad Sabri, Zirek, Hossein Hasan, Hussein Hassan and Uwe Preuss
House Without Roof is about the journey of the siblings Liya, Jan and Alan who were born in the Kurdish area of the Iraq and grown up in Germany. The three of them want to fulfill their mother's last wish to bury her in her home village beside her...
Sunday 15th April 2018
Yilmaz Güney, Tarik Akan, Patrick Blossier, Costa-Gavras, Leyla Demirezen and Sule Demirezen
Director Yilmaz Güney produced his most well-known film, YOL, which was honored with the Golden Palm in Cannes in 1982, from his Turkish prison cell, shortly before he broke free and fled to France. His work became a forerunner of...
Thursday 27th April 2017
Mehmet Aktas, Nathalie Cloutier, Fanny Drew, Yanick Létourneau, Sarah Mannering and Denis McCready
They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female fighters? Defend Kurdish territory in Iraq and Syria, and defeat ISIS (the armed...