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Completed - KURDISH, ARABIC, CATALAN, SPANISH - Drama - 126 minutes

Log Line

2014. ISIS invades Sinjar on a genocidal campaign. Hadia is enslaved with three of her children. Young Arjin escapes and tries to go back home. In Barcelona, Carlota searches for her disappeared son.

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  • Berlin EFM 2021 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2021

Director(s) : Anna M BOFARULL
Cast : Nora NAVAS, Halima ILTER, Eman EIDO, Luisa GAVASA

Synopsis

Sinjar, Iraq, 2014. Families hurriedly put their baggages in cars, some vehicles are already leaving. Soldiers from Islamic State suddenly arrive, firing their weapons. One of the soldiers, Marc, arrests young Arjin and her family – her mother, Hadia, desperate in order to save her children. That same night, in Barcelona, Carlota looks at the horizon. Some months later, Hadia is a servant in the house of an old man who abuses her, she is ready to continue enduring everything just in order to protect her younger children. At that time, Arjin manages to escape from her captivity. Hoping to find out about her family and going back home, Arjin will join the Kurdish militia. Some months before of that encounter in Sinjar, in Barcelona, young Marc fixes breakfast for Carlota, his mother. It’s the last time they will be together. Next day, she will discover that he has left the country to join the ranks of Daesh. How far will Arjin, Hadia and Carlota go to bring back the ones they love?

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Country(ies) : SPAIN


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