Director: Ebrahim Saeedi

Cast: Rojan Mahamad , Shahab Fazili , Tima Amiri , Avesta Khalid , Mahmoud Gli

South Kurdistan (Iraq) / 2010 / 90mins / Kurdish (Sorani) and Arabic with English subtitles

The story that takes place in the border region between Iraq and Iran as a Kurdish family travels at the back of a minivan. Ebrahim Saeedi tells the story of this journey back home through the eyes of the grandfather, the old Sherif, whose point of view is identified with the gaze of the camera and accompanied by his continuous heavy breathing in the sound track. Sherif is old and sick, yet the feeling of weariness that defines the tone of the film evidently represents more than the old man’s state. It is rather the exhaustion of the Kurdish people in between exile, immigration and repression. Sherif’s niece Sheelan, a young doctor who immigrated to Sweden with her family when she was a kid, is visiting them to take Sherif and the family to Sweden to treat his illness. But the journey they take will involve a change of plan.