Director
Hiner Saleem
Producer
Emilie Georges, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Hiner Saleem
Year
2005
Spoken
Arabic
French
Kurdish
Subtitle
English
Country
France
Iraq
Length
86 min
Format
DVD
Off
Description
In the late 80's, in the small village of Amedi, the Kurd electrician Ako is forced to leave his family and join the Iraqi army to fight in Basra against Iran. When he is assigned to escort the coffin of a deceased soldier to his family, the crosses the country with an Arab driver and plots a scheme to desert the army and bring his wife and son to Paris.