Eyna Bejnê

Turtles Can Fly

January 2005 •Kurdish

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

volatile white

March 2023 •Portuguese

Inspired by the works of portuguese artist Julião Sarmento, this is a movie about the self and the other. About the reflection and obsession on the human condition that is us.

Las Meninas

January 2008 •Ukrainian

This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.

Corridor of Mirrors

February 1948 •English

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Scud Patriot

November 2013 •Kurdish

Mirrors of Time

Invalid date •Spanish

"Mirrors of Time" follows Miranda, a woman who finds herself trapped in a fragmented and bewildering reality. With each step he takes, he plunges further into confusion and desperation to find his way back to his original timeline. Facing mirrors that reflect different versions of herself, Miranda struggles to understand if what she is experiencing is real.

New Life

September 2015 •Kurdish

"Nû Jîn", New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', depicts the daily life of women guerillas, Elif Kobanê (18), Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn, joining in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in their battle against ISIS. The documentary relates the ISIS assault of 15 September 2014 and the five-month resistance by the YPJ and People's Defense Units (YPG) through the lens of three women fighter

Dream

April 2024 •Kurdish

Dreams are the only way for a Kurdish mother from Kobane to meet her martyr son during many years

Come to My Voice

December 2014 •Turkish

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter Jiyan are distressed. The only man in the household, Temo, the son of one and the father of the other, was arrested by the Turkish military. The commanding officer has been told that the villagers are hiding weapons, so he arrested all the men and announced that they will be kept in prison until their families hand over the weapons. The problem is that there are no weapons in the village. Desperate, Berfé and Jiyan embark on a long journey, in search of a gun which they could exchange for their beloved Temo. Will the old woman and her innocent granddaughter find a way out of the inextricable Kurdish identity conflict?

Mothering

February 2018 •English

Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her.

Dream Inn

September 2023 •Portuguese

In this anthology, three stories connect through one place: the Dream Inn. A former drug addict, a frustrated journalist and a man searching for his missing wife are drawn to the mysterious place and with the help of its enigmatic staff, The Janitor and The Recepcionist, they will have to face the consequences of their deepest desires.

Love Child

January 1968 •English

Young girl from the suburbs gets knocked up and ends up tripping out in an East Village drug den.

The Third Act

September 2023 •Persian

After returning from work, a man stands in front of the mirror and starts making excuses. Words that gradually reveal truths and remove masks.

Crossing Bridges

August 2014 •

After losing his job in Mumbai, Tashi is compelled to return to his village in the remote interiors of Arunachal Pradesh. Waiting for news of any new job in the city, he struggles to get accustomed to life in his native place.

Kobane

September 2022 •Kurdish

Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.

SILIKA

April 2021 •

It follows the filmmaking journey of two filmmakers as they navigate through the urban sprawl of inner KL during the pandemic. It showcases the city in a raw, exposed and gritty fashion but still with a certain charm. Throughout their filmmaking process, they capture the peculiar events in the life of three strangers: the son (Fakhrul Aiman), the outsider (Eli Orkid) and the hustler (Nidusmas). They happen to express themselves in extreme ways at the sight of their own reflection in “the vantablack” -- they snap into a state of mind where they lose all their inhibitions and show their true self in a very physical way: through visceral, almost primal dance movements.

Memories on Stone

July 2014 •Kurdish

Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.

The Last Outpost

October 1935 •English

During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.

A.B.

October 2023 •English

A documentary-style capturing of the life of Ab, a young struggling artist trying to find her way, all while dealing with unwanted company.

Mirror, Mirror: TRANSVILE

January 2024 •English

Does the mirror reflect reality or is it a window into the fears of the observer? After just another day, when bullying becomes too much, what can Alice do? What defines her as a freak?