World cinema

MY SWEET PEPPERLAND : IRAK (2013)

Fiction - 100 minutes

Awards and prizes: Official Selection Un Certain Regard Cannes Festival 2013

Director: Hiner Saleem

Editor: Sophie Reine, Clémence Samson

Sound: Miroslav Babic

Cast: Golshiefteh Farahani, Korkmaz Arslan

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 Mecca. There he meets Govend, a beautiful young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly-opened school.

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