Jimmy Vestvood is an Iranian immigrant living in the United States. When he is accused of being a terrorist, he decides to become an undercover FBI agent to prove his innocence. Along the way, he navigates the challenges of Iranian culture, political satire, and the fish-out-of-water experience.
Hanna K. is a drama movie set in Israel, where a defense lawyer discovers a cover-up involving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights violations. It explores themes of loss, dispossesion, and moral dilemmas.
Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict. The Confession captures the entirety of Begg’s story, from his forced confession and testimony as a free man, to his experience as a British Muslim and living the War on Terror Commissioned by BBC Storyville and the BFI, The Confession is a gripping account of the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the disastrous reaction of the West. The Confession is now available to watch on iTunes.
As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.
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