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KU-Language Films
Top 15 KU-language films from a catalog of 15, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Turtles Can Fly | 2,004 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama | 7.7 | 236 | KU | Iran | Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall. |
| Bekas | 2,012 | Karzan Kader | Drama | 7.5 | 111 | KU | Sweden | Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman. |
| Zagros | 2,017 | Sahim Omar Kalifa | Drama | 7.3 | 13 | KU | Belgium | Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip about Havin: there are rumours of her having an affair. Zagros brushes his father’s concerns away as he trusts his wife and refuses to give credit to the rumours. Later, while Zagros tends to his sheep, he learns that his family have accused Havin of adultery and locked her up. Zagros returns to his village but finds his wife and daughter gone. Havin has fled to the west with their daughter and unborn child. Zagros, believing his wife’s innocence and opposing his father, travels to Istanbul and meets a smuggler who can take him to the west… |
| The Exam | 2,021 | Shawkat Amin Korki | Drama | 7.2 | 10 | KU | Germany | Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society. |
| My Sweet Pepper Land | 2,014 | Hiner Saleem | Drama | 7.1 | 93 | KU | Germany | Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief. |
| Walnut Tree | 2,020 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Drama, History, War, Crime | 6.9 | 12 | KU | Iran | Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated ... |
| Marooned in Iraq | 2,002 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, War | 6.9 | 12 | KU | Iran | During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people. |
| Sabaya | 2,021 | Hogir Hirori | Documentary | 6.8 | 12 | KU | Sweden | With just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad and their group risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS as Sabaya (abducted sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria. |
| Iraq in Fragments | 2,006 | James Longley | Documentary | 6.6 | 18 | KU | Iraq | An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. |
| Half Moon | 2,006 | Bahman Ghobadi | Music, Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 28 | KU | Austria | Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver. |
| Silent | 2,012 | L. Rezan Yesilbas | Drama | 6.3 | 18 | KU | Turkey | A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980, where the only language allowed to be spoken in prison is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” for short film in Cannes Film Festival 2012. |
| Resistance Is Life | 2,017 | Apo W. Bazidi | Documentary, War | 5.8 | 10 | KU | Turkey | Eight-year-old Evlin characterizes the resilience of Kobane's resistance against ISIS forces through her experience in a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border. |
| Bekas | 2,010 | Karzan Kader | Drama, Family | 5.5 | 12 | KU | Iraq | Two homeless Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town's first movie theatre and decide they are going to live with him in the US. It's a long, dangerous road in the hands of ruthless human smugglers. |
| Kilometer Zero | 2,005 | Hiner Saleem | Comedy, Drama, War | 5.4 | 12 | KU | Finland | Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan. |
| Fratricide | 2,005 | Yilmaz Arslan | Drama | 4.7 | 14 | KU | Luxembourg | Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge. |
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