Director Kazım Öz was detained Jan 22 as part of an investigation launched by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding his film, Zer. Öz was taken into custody at the Kemerburgaz ...

Two years after he explored how former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein evaded capture following his ousting from power in the 2023 documentary “Hiding Saddam Hussein,” Kurdish/Norwegian filmmaker ...

Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state ...

Wellspring release “Marooned in Iraq” will be the first film to unspool in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Pic opened this week in Sulleimanieah and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. It will premiere ...

Mehmet Aktaş is a Kurdish filmmaker, producer, author and journalist born in Turkey but living in Germany. He is founder and chief executive of the film production and distribution company mîtosfilm ...