Iraq Movies

Projected on the wall by the gallery exit was Big Rock Candy Mountain, 2015, a four-minute video animation of one thousand stills taken from footage...

From the bleeding stillness of the night, day is birthed.

Thousands of Iraqis have been displaced by sectarian violence and have had to flee their homes, seeking refuge in safer parts of the country. Al...

The eye stretches as far as the cosmos, and burns the earth.

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...

The movie starts with a guy being unable to sleep, he decides to get up in the middle of the night for a walk, singing about how lucky other people...

A sad clown encounter with a little boy holding a balloon

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...

Opened in an old house in 1992 by a close-knit group of Iraqi artists and writers, the Hiwar Center is a gathering place for those who are interested...

Living in a house with her sisters, mother and brother without electricity and surrounded by constant danger, director Hiba Bassem ruminates about...

Constructed using appropriated press images from the occupation of Iraq, this video is derived from two elements: pictures and subtitles. Photo...

Short film confronting the reality of living conditions for Palestinians in the occupied territories with the falsely reassuring messages they send...

The film reflects the suffering of a rural woman with a strong personality. Everyone in the village tries to marry her for the sake of the acres she...

An observational field documentary shot in Baghdad and Najaf during the civil movement on February 14, 2014. Through direct visual immersion and...