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WINNER of the Best Premiere Award, Narrative and $2,000
This film was one of five Finalists in competition for the Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature and $20,000.
Rojda, a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots, searches for her mother, Ferhat, in a Greek refugee camp. When the two finally find each other after so many years apart, they are overjoyed. But their happiness soon fades when Rojda learns that her sister, Dilan, is still in Iraq. Rojda requests a redeployment to Iraq to find her sister, and quickly wins the trust of the Kurdish female fighters. But the more intensely she searches for her sister, the more she becomes caught between the two sides.
In English, German, and Kurdish with English subtitles.
Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film.
Festivals and Awards
Berlinale, Perspektive Neues Deutsches Kino (Perspectives on German Cinema)
- Year2019
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageGerman, English, Kurdish
- CountryGermany, Greece
- PremiereU.S. Premiere
- RatingMature Themes
- DirectorDaphne Charizani
- ScreenwriterDaphne Charizani
- ProducerThanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Kostas Lambropoulos
- CastAlmila Bagriacik, Zübeyde Bulut
LIVE VIRTUAL Q&A: October 17 at 2:00 pm EDT. CLICK HERE to register for FREE!
WINNER of the Best Premiere Award, Narrative and $2,000
This film was one of five Finalists in competition for the Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature and $20,000.
Rojda, a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots, searches for her mother, Ferhat, in a Greek refugee camp. When the two finally find each other after so many years apart, they are overjoyed. But their happiness soon fades when Rojda learns that her sister, Dilan, is still in Iraq. Rojda requests a redeployment to Iraq to find her sister, and quickly wins the trust of the Kurdish female fighters. But the more intensely she searches for her sister, the more she becomes caught between the two sides.
In English, German, and Kurdish with English subtitles.
Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film.
Festivals and Awards
Berlinale, Perspektive Neues Deutsches Kino (Perspectives on German Cinema)
- Year2019
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageGerman, English, Kurdish
- CountryGermany, Greece
- PremiereU.S. Premiere
- RatingMature Themes
- DirectorDaphne Charizani
- ScreenwriterDaphne Charizani
- ProducerThanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Kostas Lambropoulos
- CastAlmila Bagriacik, Zübeyde Bulut
