2003 im Irak: Kurz nach der Eroberung Bagdads durch die USA rückt der US-Armee-Offizier Roy Miller mit seinem Team an, um die besetzten Gebiete zu kontrollieren. Diese abgesicherte "Green Zone" müssen sie bald darauf verlassen, um einer Spur nachzugehen, die sie zu Massenvernichtungswaffen führen soll. Doch die Fährte führt in eine Sackgasse: Sie stoßen nur auf Sprengfallen. Nach und nach stellt Roy Miller mit sein Team fest, dass sie nur Marionetten in einer ausgefeilten Verschwörung sind.
From July to December 2015, with a camera team in tow, Bernard-Henri Lévy journeyed 1,000 km along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops. The journey resulted in an illustrated logbook offering a special insight into an unfinished war with a global impact. Alongside the Peshmergas – Kurdish fighters imbued with a spirit of unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar mountains, passing the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction along the way. A tale peopled by real characters, men and women whose faces are rarely seen...
Der beliebteste Treffpunkt für Exil-Iraker in London ist das Café Abu Nawas. Dort treffen die verschiedensten Persönlichkeiten aufeinander, etwa die Architektin Amal, die dort als Kellnerin arbeitet und sich in der britischen Hauptstadt vor ihrem Ex-Mann versteckt, der Dichter Taufiq und der homosexuelle IT-Techniker Muhanad. Doch nicht nur diese und andere Außenseiter treiben sich dort herum, in letzter Zeit wird das Café auch von Nasseer frequentiert, dem tiefgläubigen Neffen von Taufiq. Nasseer steht unter dem Einfluss von Yassin, einem Prediger in einer nahen Salafisten-Gemeinde, und sieht Taufiq und die anderen zunehmend als gottlose Sünder. Und dann taucht auch noch Amals Ex-Mann in London auf...
Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi's television breaks down...
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arrest, begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia.
The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.
Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who has lost his legs from a landmine. Next door lives Hilin, who has not been able to express her feelings. One of the only sources of happiness for these people who live amid fear of poverty and bombings is soccer. Asu gathers together the Kurdish, Arabs and Turkish in order to hold a soccer match. Although they are of different races, they become close neighbors.
After twenty years, Wiam Al Zabari starts a conversation with his father. Why did they flee from Iraq? Why was that never discussed? Will he be able to let go of the past and embrace a Dutch future?