Movies: Hisham Zaman

Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...

Kurdish refugee, Renas, is living in the very north of Norway. In a remote desolate house. In the middle of snowy nowhere. But soon his special princess, Fermesk, will be joining him. Though the couple has never met, they have already fallen in love ...

Three teenage friends stuck in a frozen, hopeless place come up with a plan to escape over the mountain to a world where their dreams can be fulfilled. But when one of them falls in love, their plan begins to unravel....

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A man is driving through the winter. Suddenly his car hits someone, and he flees the scene in panic. He attempts to conceal all trace of the accident. But when something unexpected turns up in the car, it becomes harder to run....

Li-hua is a single mother in Oslo struggling to make ends meet. "En Midnatts Vuggesang" is a subtle look into the life of a working-class immigrant in the Western world, navigating life moment by moment....

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In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a you...

Two Kurdish refugees from Iraq, a father and his son are on the run. With hope for a better life for his son, the father is forced to make a challenging sacrifice to provide for him....

A burlesque drama about old, boozed-up Ella, 73, who refuses to take a bath....