Our work
The Colour of Our Time (2021-Today)
dir. Hayder Helo
Filmed over two decades across Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, and Northern Europe, The Colour of Our Time follows Muhannad, Duraid, and Hayder — three friends bound by art, exile, and the will to create — revealing how their personal stories resonate with the larger histories of exile and artistic resilience across the Arab world.
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dir. Hayder Helo
Filmed over two decades across Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, and Northern Europe, The Colour of Our Time follows Muhannad, Duraid, and Hayder — three friends bound by art, exile, and the will to create — revealing how their personal stories resonate with the larger histories of exile and artistic resilience across the Arab world.
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Not my City! (2023-Today)
dir. Murad Atshan
Iraqi-German filmmaker Murad Atshan explores the topics of migration, exclusion and socio-cultural ‘in-betweenness’ through the intimate portrayals of the everydays of his brother and two close friends in the Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp.
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dir. Murad Atshan
Iraqi-German filmmaker Murad Atshan explores the topics of migration, exclusion and socio-cultural ‘in-betweenness’ through the intimate portrayals of the everydays of his brother and two close friends in the Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp.
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Charbon (2024)
dir. Manu Riche, Hayder Helo
Two directors, the Belgian son of an oil trader and an Iraqi having fled during war, set off to reinterpret the past hundred years of fossil fuel history. Following intimately intertwined stories from Europe to Iraq brings them face-to-face with the end of a civilisation built on coal and oil. Following intimately intertwined stories from Europe to Iraq brings them face-to-face with the end of a civilisation built on coal and oil.
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dir. Manu Riche, Hayder Helo
Two directors, the Belgian son of an oil trader and an Iraqi having fled during war, set off to reinterpret the past hundred years of fossil fuel history. Following intimately intertwined stories from Europe to Iraq brings them face-to-face with the end of a civilisation built on coal and oil. Following intimately intertwined stories from Europe to Iraq brings them face-to-face with the end of a civilisation built on coal and oil.
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Tôle (2023-Today)
dir. Fathi Khaldi & Hamza Madfaī
In an enclosed scrapyard, overwhelming silence is cut through with the screeching and the drumming of metal impacts. The elderly workers’ lives unfold among piles of rusty and sharp metal, with only the animals witnessing their brutal daily labor.
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dir. Fathi Khaldi & Hamza Madfaī
In an enclosed scrapyard, overwhelming silence is cut through with the screeching and the drumming of metal impacts. The elderly workers’ lives unfold among piles of rusty and sharp metal, with only the animals witnessing their brutal daily labor.
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EYES WIDE X: Game of Leaves (2025)
dir. Zihan Zhou
Shanghai born visual artist Zihan Zhou explores inter-generational tension and epxiernces of migration in his first short fiction set in London’s.
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dir. Zihan Zhou
Shanghai born visual artist Zihan Zhou explores inter-generational tension and epxiernces of migration in his first short fiction set in London’s.
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Baghdad Messi Casting (2023)
dir. Sahim Omar Kalifa
Moving from Baghdad to a countryside village, Hammoudi struggles to find his place among the youth, pushing him to set of on a dangerous adventure. Inspired by the award-winning short film Baghdad Messi (2012) starring Hayder Helo.
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dir. Sahim Omar Kalifa
Moving from Baghdad to a countryside village, Hammoudi struggles to find his place among the youth, pushing him to set of on a dangerous adventure. Inspired by the award-winning short film Baghdad Messi (2012) starring Hayder Helo.
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Kids & Films Initiative (2022)
A social initiative aiming to allow war-affected and marginalised youth to express themselves creatively to create social cohesion, while raising awareness on the rist of smartphone and social media addiction among children and teenagers.
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A social initiative aiming to allow war-affected and marginalised youth to express themselves creatively to create social cohesion, while raising awareness on the rist of smartphone and social media addiction among children and teenagers.
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Sunny World (2022)
dir. Jasper Luithlen, Ramazan Rahimi
Jasper Luithlen collaborates with Ramazan Rahimi, a writer and actor who fled from Afghanistan to Switzerland, to combine fictional and autobiographical elements to explore our relationship to nature, while emphasises creative agency in recounting stories of migration.
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dir. Jasper Luithlen, Ramazan Rahimi
Jasper Luithlen collaborates with Ramazan Rahimi, a writer and actor who fled from Afghanistan to Switzerland, to combine fictional and autobiographical elements to explore our relationship to nature, while emphasises creative agency in recounting stories of migration.
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