Toren (film)  Toren is a 2018 film written, directed, and produced by Nawzad Shekhany. In a desperate attempt to preserve his ancestors’ identity rooted in the Mesopotamian civilization, Toren, the grandfather, fled with his family to Georgia at the time when his people was subjected to genocides. Toren the son, 26-year-old talented painter born in Georgia, faced an unfair confrontation between past and present and with a different society oblivious to his family's customs and traditions. Toren suffered a lot that he rebelled against his own identity, especially when his parents past away while he was still a child. He was thus brought up by his grandparents and older brother, Meraz. His success in painting did not free him from his internal struggle and his fatal illness, which created a conflict between life and death. He suffered from severe psychological isolation, which he could not escape until he met Christian Dr. Eka, 24-year-old, and started to recall his family's advices. Toren's family decided to return to the land of their forefathers, but fate was on the lookout for a new wave of genocide. On 2 October 2013, it was announced that Nawzad Shekhany would produce and direct a project focusing on a genocide campaign against Yazidis, and who is being forced out of his homeland due to wars, oppression, massacres and had to integrate into a new different society. The film was shot between Georgia (Tbilisi, Batumi) and Iraq (Lalish Temple). The film script was written by Nawzad Shekhany, Jaso Osmanovi in Cologne, Germany and was updated in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1 February 2016, it was announced Nawzad Shekhany resumed work in the film's editing after "it has" stopped more than a year because of the genocide inflicted "on" Yazidis by ISIS on 14 August 2014 in Iraq and his preoccupation in a film project "The Black Massacre". The documentary film about the genocide, also it was announced Nawzad Shekhany had acquired copy rights to the film "Toren". An official trailer was released on 24 April 2018. In 1 February 2016, it was announced Nawzad Shekhany resumed work in the film’s editing after it has stopped more than a year because of the genocide inflicted on Yazidis by ISIS on 14 August 2014 in Iraq and his preoccupation in a film project The Black Massacre The documentary film about the genocide, also it was announced Nawzad Shekhany had acquired copy rights to the film Toren.