01 Orphaned Kurdish children on the Iraq-Turkey border scrape by clearing landmines just before the US invasion.
6 Best Iraqi Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · November 8, 2026
Iraqi and Iraqi-Kurdish cinema has been shaped almost entirely by war, and its strongest films confront that reality directly through the eyes of children and families left to navigate the wreckage.
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02 A Kurdish grandmother and her grandson travel across post-war Iraq searching for the boy's missing father.
03 A young woman in a Baghdad mental institution and a deserting soldier cross paths as US bombs fall on the city.
04 A filmmaker traces her scattered family across five continents, all displaced by decades of Iraqi upheaval.
05 Iraqi exiles building new lives in London find their pasts and secrets impossible to fully leave behind.
06 Two Kurdish filmmakers scrape together funding to make Iraq's first film about the Anfal genocide.
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