Directors: Ebrahim Saeedi and Zahavi Sanjavi

Iran and South Kurdistan (Iraq) / 2010 / 52mins / Kurdish with English subtitles /18

During the 30 years of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist rule in Iraq, thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites were killed or disappeared. Around 182,000 people lost their lives when 4,500 villages and townships were destroyed in the Kirkuk, Soleimanieh, Dahouk and Erbil regions, with the aim of exterminating the Kurds and Arabizing Kurdistan. When one of the mass graves is discovered in the southern deserts of Iraq after 24 years, this film looks at the living conditions of these villages now inhabited mostly by the remaining mothers, daughters, wives or sisters of those victims. This film sheds considerable light on the nuances modern day life in region of Iraq.