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This film from Iraq that won the Amnesty international Award at Berlin Film Festival in 2006 is a Kurdish production that tries to tell the story of the Peshmerga's struggle against the persecution of Kurds in the last ten years. Shot with a minimal budget (and one assumes under difficult circumstances), it nevertheless succeeds in presenting us an ambiguous image of a life devoted to the aim of a unified and autonomous "Kurdistan", presented in a dense and rapidly cut tableaux of poetic scenes that try to exemplify the hardships of the Kurdish people, and offer a ray of hope in a situation that seems to be deadlocked.

A debut that promises much, and could become a cornerstone in the continuing development of Kurdish cinema.