Monthly Film Screening
Director: Soleen Yusef
2016, Colour, 124 minutes
Three siblings born in the Kurdish part of Iraq who grew up in Germany – Liya, who performs as a singer in a night club; Jan, whose wife is expecting a child; and misfit Alan – return to their country of birth in order to fulfil their late mother’s last wishes. She wanted to be buried in her home village next to her husband, who was killed during the war against Saddam’s regime, but her relatives in Kurdistan are vehemently opposed to this. Wanting to fulfil their mother’s wish, the squabbling siblings make off with the coffin and, pursued by their furious relatives, embark on a strenuous journey through a land in which the Peschmerga are battling IS terrorists.
Soleen Yusef was born February 21, 1987 in Duhok (Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Iraq) and is a German-Kurdish director and screenwriter. With her first short films, she was invited several times to compete at international festivals. In 2012 her medium-length film Trattoria premiered at the Berlinale, in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. Her first feature film House Without a Roof won the Special Grand Prix of the jury at the 2016 Montreal World Film Festival, followed by the First Steps Award and several international festival awards.
For age group 18 years and above.
Friday Films are the monthly screenings of German films at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata. One film is screened every third Friday of the Month from 6.30 pm. All films are in German language with English subtitles.
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