Rojek + Zaam + Q&A
N/A 177 mins
N/A 177 mins
After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned members of the Islamic State, alternating their words with aerial views of the countryside. It is an unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematic object.
Plus fiction short ZAAM; Shoresh leads the family in absence of his departed dad and his elder mentally-ill brother. In spite of his younger sisters’ insistence to keep the sick brother in a mental asylum, he decides to take his brother home, which in turn makes the younger sisters plan to backfire, however, things do not go as planned.