Our work

The Colour of Our Time (2021-Today)
dir. Hayder Helo

Duraid Abbas and Muhanad Rasheed, former members of the contemporary dance group ‘Iraqi Bodies’, find their isolated lives in Europe invaded by memories as director Hayder Helo tries to trace their shared journey back from the Netherlands through Syria to Iraq in 2003.

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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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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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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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Sanzaru of Power (2024)
dir. WeSmellGas Collective

This experimental short-documentary directed by decolonial research collective WeSmellGas explores the links between fossil gas, militarisation and migration in the Mediterranean.

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EYES WIDE X: Son (2023-Today)
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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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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Changing narratives, producing stories.

Changing narratives,
producing stories.