Maytham Jbara

Producer, Founder of Purattu Film Production

We are drawn to independent films with deeply human stories.

Purattu Film Production

Kidnapped from her village in North Iraq by ISIS, just a few months after marrying Mohammed, a 25- year-old Yazidi woman named Ellan is released from captivity and returns home with a newborn child from the ISIS father. Ellan's family and friends are waiting outside, beating drums and playing music celebrating her and other women safe return, but her husband cannot accept the ISIS child who is a shame to the family. He orders her to kill him before people find out. In her room, with her baby in her arms, Ellan is pushed to take life of her own child. She makes several attempts but the mother in her, the instincts and feelings that she cannot betray, destine her to find a different way out from the plight that was awaiting her.

Mother is Back

Caught between tradition and her desire for childhood joy, Rümeysa, a 10 year-old, defies her mother's insistence on early maturity, determined to hold onto her playful spirit despite societal expectations of marriage in their village.

Pencere

Bloody Boys follows three families through three parallel stories; Birgitta who decides to end her apartment lease to move in with yet another man, leaving her son, Simon, without a place to stay, Lina who asks for a divorce, which prompts her husband to start writing a book on the cruel ways of love and marriage, and Ida and her husband who share a tragic heritage which they are struggling to break free from.


Bloody Boys 

When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain.

Hanging Gardens 

When a thief breaks in to Gina’s apartment and stays overnight suspicious of the police lurking outside, it sparks an unlikely connection between the two.


The weekend thief’s 

A daring 7-year-old boy Evan embarks on a journey to create God's face, aiming to save his ailing mother before it's too late.

God’s Face

Locked in a room, Iqbal starts to doubt the promises made by ISIS to keep her family safe in exchange for the ultimate sacrifice. She must decide whether to carry out their instructions or open the door to her daughter's embrace. 