Movies: Hussein Hassan Ali

  • 2021
    The Exam

    The Exam (2021)

    The Exam

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    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 i...

    The Exam
  • 2014
    Mardan

    Mardan (2014)

    Mardan

    5.32014HD

    A police officer finds himself haunted by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a missing man in the rugged mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, in this striking feature debut by Batin Ghobadi....

    Mardan
  • 2014
    Memories on Stone

    Memories on Stone (2014)

    Memories on Stone

    6.22014HD

    Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting...

    Memories on Stone
  • 2023
    Baghdad Messi

    Baghdad Messi (2023)

    Baghdad Messi

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    The talented Hamoudi is an 11-year-old boy with a passion for soccer and an ultimate dream to one day reach the level of his idol Lionel Messi. The day Hamoudi is caught in a horrific suicide attempt, he wakes up severely injured in a hospital. As hi...

    Baghdad Messi
  • 2016
    House Without Roof

    House Without Roof (2016)

    House Without Roof

    7.12016HD

    Alan, Jan and Liya, born in Kurdistan, raised in Stuttgart, want to grant their deceased mother her final wish: to be buried beside her husband, who died in the war, in their home village in Kurdistan. The clan objects, but the three set out anyway. ...

    House Without Roof
  • 2022
    The Rain Bride

    The Rain Bride (2022)

    The Rain Bride

    5.52022HD

    Young mother Lori must say goodbye to her husband, who decides to join the war against ISIS. She finds herself in a fight in midst her own society. Thus, Lori searches to express her feelings in dance....

    The Rain Bride
  • 2016
    Reseba: The Dark Wind

    Reseba: The Dark Wind (2016)

    Reseba: The Dark Wind

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    Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare....

    Reseba: The Dark Wind
  • 2006
    Crossing the Dust

    Crossing the Dust (2006)

    Crossing the Dust

    5.82006HD

    A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywh...

    Crossing the Dust
  • 2014
    One Candle, Two Candles...

    One Candle, Two Candles... (2014)

    One Candle, Two Candles...

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    Young Viyan, is forcibly given to wealthy elder businessman, Haji Hemmo. When she runs out of the bedroom and climbs a tree, refusing to sleep with him, the respected elder looses face and becomes the laughing-stock of the town. In return, he punishe...

    One Candle, Two Candles...
  • 2006
    Narcissus Blossom

    Narcissus Blossom (2006)

    Narcissus Blossom

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    While fighting Saddam’s dictatorship the Peshmerga never lost their hope of attaining freedom. During their struggle, which is their only way of surviving, they never once deserted their deep-seated conviction that war is no solution and that the fut...

    Narcissus Blossom