Director: Ziad Kalhoum

West/Lower South Kurdistan (Syria) / 2011 / 47mins / Kurdish (Kurmanji) with English subtitles

Aydil is the only entry to the Festival from Syria this year. This powerful documentary is about the sorrows and pains of Kurdish women living under the oppressive anti-Kurdish Syrian regime. In this film, women talk about their difficulties against the backdrop of remote Kurdish villages in the divided land of the Kurds on the Turkish / Syrian border.