Memories on Stone

Jul 6, 2014

1h 37m

★ 6.2

Overview

Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

mîtosfilm

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Cast

Alan

Nazmi Kırık

Sinor

Shima Molaei

Rozh Azad

Suat Usta

Hussein

Hussein Hassan Ali

The Smuggler

AllahMorad Rashtiani

Bashir

Rekish Shahbaz

Hiwa

Bangen Ali

Uncle Hamid

Salah Shex Mohammedi

Salem (DOP)

Baroj Akrayi

Mr. Khalid

Adil Abdulrahman

Hazhar

Hushyar Nerwayi

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter Jiyan are distressed. The only man in the household, Temo, the son of one and the father of the other, was arrested by the Turkish military. The commanding officer has been told that the villagers are hiding weapons, so he arrested all the men and announced that they will be kept in prison until their families hand over the weapons. The problem is that there are no weapons in the village. Desperate, Berfé and Jiyan embark on a long journey, in search of a gun which they could exchange for their beloved Temo. Will the old woman and her innocent granddaughter find a way out of the inextricable Kurdish identity conflict?

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