HALABJA, THE LOST CHILDREN

HALABJA, THE LOST CHILDREN

Director: Akram Hidou

South Kurdistan (Iraq) – Germany / 2011 / 72mins / Kurdish (Sorani) and Farsi with English subtitles / 18

Ali visits the cemetery of Halabja victims and remains silent in front of a tombstone with a scratched-out name on it. It is his own. Twenty-one years after the Halabja massacre and in search of his family, Ali returns to his hometown from Iran where he lived as a foster child. He discovers that a number of families are hoping him to be their missing child, lost during Saddam Hussein’s chemical attacks the town. Is Ali their missing son?