Diman Zandi

Melody (2023)

Melody teaches music at a centre for cancerous children. The thirty children are having a party at the end of autumn and ask Melody to compose a piece using the sounds of thirty different birds. She goes to her home village to record the birdsong and is he ...

The Dance of Ali and Zîn (2021)

The story is set in a tiny Kurdish village. Isa's younger brother is murdered and brought back to his hometown. Two weeks after the funeral, his mother Zîn dreams of giving a wedding celebration for her deceased son. This strange idea sparks off a host of ...

Seasonless (2020)

In a bloody war with ISIS, the burnt body of an American soldier was accidentally presented to a long-awaited Kurdish mother, while the soldier's real mother steadfastly waits at San Diego's navy base for a son who will never return. ...

Das Milan-Protokoll (2018)

Reseba: The Dark Wind (2016)

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. ...

Black Horse Memories (2015)

A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One ...

Lost in The Dust (2014)

Two Friends both are in love with a Kurdish Muslim girl. The girl's parents don't want their girl to marry any of the boys, the first one is from another religion and the second one is the Baath's agent. ...

Congenital (2021)

Roja is a teenage village girl who is forced to marry a religious old man for blood money. On their wedding night, the husband demands to have sex with Roja against her will. Running against time, and with the help of a close friend, she embarks on a despe ...

The Other (2020)

After his wife's death, a man makes a dramatic discovery that turns his life upside down. ...