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| "LAKPOSHTHA HÂM PARVAZ MIKONAND" | |
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| Iran, Iraq 2004| 98min | |
Language: KurdishThings are buzzing at a refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border where Kurds have fled from the surrounding villages. Everyone is waiting for the Americans to finally arrive. In this arid wasteland, where there is almost no radio or television signal, information is worth gold - if there were anything to buy it with. Here, the poorest of the poor struggle to survive from one day to the next. Thirteen-year-old Kak, nicknamed Satellite, becomes the unwritten leader of paradoxical way of making money: collecting and selling the leftover unexploded landmines which the local area is literally infested with. One day a brother and sister arrive at the camp from a village over the hill; they have suffered a terrible trauma. This is the other face of war, full of blood, fear and pain, which can turn a child’s heart to stone. Director: BAHMAN GHOBADI Cast: Avaz Latif, Soran Ebrahim, Saddam Hossein Feysal Screenplay: Bahman Ghobadi // Cinematography: Shahriar Assadi // Producer: Mij Film Co. Festivals and awards: Toronto, Pusan, San Sebastian (Best Film), Chicago, Mar del Plata, Berlin (Glass Bear – Special Mention), Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary Homepage: |
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