My Sweet Pepper Land
A film by Hiner Saleem
2013
France, Kurdistan, Germany
- Drama
synopsis
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, resolves to accept a position in a godforsaken village at the borders of Iran and Turkey, an illegal trafficking Eldorado .There he meets Govend, a beautiful young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly-opened school despite her twelve brothers' hostility to the idea.
-
cast
- Korkmaz Arslan (Baran)
- Golshifteh Farahani (Govend)
- Suat Usta (Reber)
-
crew +
- Producer
- Marc Bordure,
- Robert Guédiguian (Agat Films & Cie)
- Co-producers
- Chaocorp
- Rohfilm
- HS production
- Arte
- Screenwriters
- Hiner Saleem
- Antoine Lacomblez
- Cinematography
- Pascal Auffray
- Editing
- Juliette Haubois
- Sound
- Miroslav Babic
- Set Design
- Fehmi Salim
- Production Design
- Nael Kanj
-
infos
- Running time
- 85'
- Ratio
- 1.85
- Sound
- 5.1
- Language
- Kurdish
-
press reviews
awards & nominations +
- Special Jury Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival
- Best Film Price at the Chicago Film Festival
- Best Film, Best Script and Best Actress at the Duhok Film Festival, Kurdistan
- Inverness FF Audience Award
- Best Film, Screenplay and Actress at Duhok festival
- Youth Award at Cabourg festival
- Special Mention for Achievement in Directing (Hiner Saleem) and Best Performance by an Actress at the APSA
- Best Feature Valenciennes festival
- Festival Outstanding Performance Stony Brook
news +
screenings in festivals & markets +