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Relocated Mountains
Director: Julia Parnell
New Zealand – Japan – USA / 2007 / 53mins / English and Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles
This is the story of a grandson’s promise to visit his grandmother before her death. Kurdish refugee Sirwan Namo travels from New Zealand to Iraq, through Lebanon and Syria to see the situation of other refugees who became victims of wars throughout the world. It’s a story of a man in search of his past and his people; their sense of place and the truth about the genocide of the Kurds.
Road
Director: Hawre Bahjat
South Kurdistan (Iraq) 2009 / 21mins / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles
This film explores the tragedy of Halabja and a road that was used by people to escape.
Ronak
Director: Hooshang Mirzaee
East Kurdistan (Iran) / 2008 / 27 mins / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles
Mr Rahimi, blind since childhood from a small pox infection lives in rural Iran where he dotes on his elderly mother, buying her medicine and visiting her daily. He has built his house by hand, and spends his days repairing tape recorders and looking after a small poultry and dairy farm. This is a poetic portrait of an uncluttered life.
Shadow of Soil
Director: Fethi Ewari
South Kurdistan (Iraq) 2009 / 11mins / Kurdish (Behdinani) with English subtitles / PG
This about the efforts of a family in the process of creating a clay artwork
SMOOD: WE WERE NOT UNBELIEVERS
Director: Goran Baba Ali
South Kurdistan (Iraq) 2007
In 1988, in a final attempt to put a conclusive end to Kurdish resistance, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein launched the genocidal 'Anfal' operation. An estimated 100,000 civilians were killed. Survivors were housed in resettlement camps. Smood was one of those camps.
Something Like My Eyes
Director: Hooshang Mirzaee
East Kurdistan (Iran) / 2008 / 29 mins / Kurdish (Sorani) with English subtitles
Abdolvahed Esmailpour is in the seventh grade. When he was in first grade he was blinded and lost both of his hands when he went into a minefield to play. Although he wanted to continue his studies, the school for disabled people would not accept him. Instead he had learned how to read Braille with his lips. This is an extraordinary story of survival.


