Our work

Eternal Fire [formerly Carbon] (2023)
dir. Hayder Helo, Manu Riche

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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Not my City! (2023)
dir. Murad Atchan

Iraqi-German filmmaker Murad Atchan explores the topics of migration, exclusion and socio-cultural ‘in-betweenness’ through the story of a group of artists and friends having fled Iraq to settle in various European cities.

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EYES WIDE X: Son (2023)
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 Chinese diaspora.

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Baghdad Messi (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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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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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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Not my City! (2023) dir. Murad Atchan

Not my City! (2023)
dir. Murad Atchan