Zirek
Also Known As: Ahmet Zirek, Ahmed Zirek
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hakkari, Türkiye
Adult: No
Birthday: July 10, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
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Neighbours
Overview: A small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab school and has to watch his small world being radically changed in the course of an absurd nationalism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Overview: Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The original French title translates as "Long Live the Bride...and the Liberation of Kurdistan." Cheto (Georges Corraface) seeks a wife via videotapes while still seeing his French girlfriend, immigration office worker Christine (Stephanie Lagarde). Cheto places an order for a beautiful girl, but he's disappointed when her sister, country girl Mina (Marina Kobakhidze), arrives at the airport as a substitute. Family pressure forces him to marry her. Unhappy with the way she's treated by Cheto, Mina acquires some progressive notions from Leila (Schahla Aalam) and other local feminists, leading to confrontations with Cheto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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Chateau
Overview: In the vibrant African neighborhood of Château d'Eau in Paris, Charles is the smoothest of all the hustlers. His job: to fill the districts numerous hair salons with customers. But when the competition is tough and everybody’s trying hard to be number one, dirty tricks are just around the corner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-08-09
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Before Snowfall
Overview: Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family reputation. The mission proves a dangerous one for the inexperienced Siyar. First stop is Istanbul, where he meets Elvin, a young girl who becomes his travel companion. On the way from east to west, through Europe and all the way to Norway, Siyar comes to realize his own need for respect, and for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 2013-01-15
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House Without Roof
Overview: 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. A risky journey to a homeland wracked by strife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-31
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Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
Overview: In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-01-31
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Sisters in Arms
Overview: Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.
Genres: Action War Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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Like a Fish Out of Water
Overview: A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, unsuspecting man in their mission to steal a rare and valuable fish. They plan to sell it back to its grieving owner at an enormous profit (talk about "sleeping with the fishes!"). Tcheky Karyo, Michel Muller and Dominique Pinon co-star.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-05
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The Legend of the Ugly King
Overview: Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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Hotel du paradis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-14
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Pari(s) d'exil
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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The Man Who Cried
Overview: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Genres: Romance Drama Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-29
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Skirt Day
Overview: A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-09
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The Book of Joy
Overview: In a dull, desolate town, Joy is an orphan who lives her faith with intensity and almost never leaves her church. Until the day she meets Andriy, a young man who gets beaten up in front of her. Soon, she becomes convinced their paths were meant to cross.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-02
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The Wall
Overview: Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Latin Babylon
Overview: Three Turkish workers traverse Iraq in a jeep heading to an American military base construction only to find themselves confronting adolescent Iraqi soldiers in a checkpoint.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-17
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Jeune Femme
Overview: Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Eden Is West
Overview: Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-11
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Girls of the Sun
Overview: Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-14
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