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 from looking at each other's photographs and talking on the phone. Their families have performed a wedding ceremony back home in I...
A soul-searching journey into the mountains of Kurdistan by five diverse personalities joined by a single quest. A road movie with deep symbolic and intellectual undertones, fusing various cultures and perspectives in a humanistic display.
NYU film graduates David and Alan roam the Kurdish countryside guided by local TV celebrity, Reboir, to screen Charlie Chaplin films in remo...
Set a day after the Syrian war began, Dayan paints a portrait of the thousands of refugees unable to return to their families once borders were established by terrorist groups. Seiban, an aging Syrian father living in exile with his family, has to make a choice: part with his special-needs children in order to escape, or keep them close and put the family’s lives at the mercy o...
电影讲述的是两个民族和两代人的故事，发生在一个75岁的土耳其民族主义的退休法官Rifat和一个六岁的库尔德女孩Hejar之间。Rifat过着与世隔绝的生活，某日警察杀害了他的库尔德邻居。一位不速之客出现了，她就是小女孩Hejar，这次屠杀中唯一的幸存者。法官很难决定到底把她交给警察还是去找她的亲戚。Hejar的叔叔像千千万万库尔德人一样沦为了难民，住在伊斯坦布尔郊外简陋的住所里。麻烦逐渐出现，比如老人坚持要女孩说土耳其语，而女孩却坚持要说自己的母语：库尔德语。不过慢慢地，在女佣Sakine的帮助下，Hejar和Rifat消除了障碍，建立起独特的友谊。
巴兰（Cagdas Bozkurt 饰）的父母曾经率领库尔德人反抗土耳其**，却因为内部出现了叛徒而被害身亡。沦为孤儿的巴兰被送到了德国汉堡，在那里，他度过了他非常灰暗的童年时代，按照协议所规定，到了16岁那一年，巴兰将失去在德国的居留权，被遣送回土耳其，而他留下来的唯一途径，似乎只有在这里结婚。可是婚姻，对于巴兰来说，是一件多么虚无缥缈的事情啊。
在街头，巴兰邂逅了名为切尔诺（Leroy Delmar 饰）的男孩，他和巴兰一样，面临着居留权被取消的困境。切尔诺生活在德国社会的底层，靠着贩卖毒品为生，尽管切尔诺和巴兰是两个八竿子达不到一起的人，但他们还是渐渐的相互靠近。
来自土耳其西部泰亚德默罕默特（Newroz Baz 饰）偶然结识来自东部的库尔德人巴赞（Nazmi Kirik 饰），两人成为好朋友。不久，默罕默特因为帮助巴赞躲避种族分子的攻击，而被当作库尔德人投入监狱。出狱后，他失去辛苦得来的工作，而巴赞也死于非命。默罕默特带着好友的尸体，他上遥远而充满艰辛的归乡之路……
本片荣获1999年安卡拉国际电影节最佳影片奖、1999年柏林国际电影节蓝天使奖和和平电影奖、1999年伊斯坦布尔电影节最佳电影奖、最佳导演奖、FIPRESCI奖、观众评选奖；1999年Manaki兄弟国际电影节金相机300奖。
Base is a 60-year-old Kurdish woman living alone in a small town close to Maras where an inhuman massacre had taken place in 1978. Being a part of the slaughtered minority of the town and having survived it, her husband has left the country after the event to work in Saudi Arabia. During the time he was abroad, he was sending audiotapes to his family instead of letters, because...
