
Known for
6.5An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.
Hidden Lives
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Esrarlı Gözler
2008
6.0A documentary about children in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey.
Little Black Fishes
2014
6.5Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?
Diploma of Madness
1998
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Çökertme
1997
NRThe story of Jiyan Tolhildan who fights for women’s freedom and against ISIS. This is a shortened TV version of the documentary film “Jiyan’s Story”.
Inside the Women’s Army
2019
Behind the camera
6.5An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.
Hidden Lives
2011
6.5An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.
Hidden Lives
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Esrarlı Gözler
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Esrarlı Gözler
2008
6.0A documentary about children in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey.
Little Black Fishes
2014
6.5Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?
Diploma of Madness
1998
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Çökertme
1997
NRThe story of Jiyan Tolhildan who fights for women’s freedom and against ISIS. This is a shortened TV version of the documentary film “Jiyan’s Story”.
Inside the Women’s Army
2019
9.0The fascinating story of Jiyan, a female guerrilla fighter who devoted twenty years of her life in the Kurdish militant struggle, reveals women’s determination for freedom not only against another oppressive regime, but also against the patriarchy. Jiyan Tolhildan is a young Kurdish woman living in the Kurdish region of Syria. After years of oppression by her family, her teachers and the society as a whole, Jiyan decides to go to the mountains to join the Kurdish struggle for freedom. When the Arab Spring breaks out Jiyan and her friends decide to go into the cities in Syria to join the protests. They also set out to educate Syrian women on women’s rights in the Rojava region. Now, six years after the Arab Spring, Kurdish forces have a semi-autonomous region in Syria. For the first time in history, women have an autonomous political organisation and an army in Syria. The women named creating this organisation “the women’s revolution.”
Jiyan's Story
2017
