Due to the ISIS war, Kani (a pregnant singer) and her husband decide to leave Kurdistan. After meeting with a turkish smuggler, they have no choice but to make the extremely dangerous journey inside an emptied, claustrophobic oil tanker across the turkish border, stuck with a group of people who are also running for their lives.
Reko
Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.
Script
The road is paved by acts of genocide, mass executions, and enslavement. The rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant scatters countless families of the Yezidi minority in Kurdistan. The film is about a young man going back to his besieged village to save his elderly parents who were left behind by the first wave of refugees.
Director
The road is paved by acts of genocide, mass executions, and enslavement. The rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant scatters countless families of the Yezidi minority in Kurdistan. The film is about a young man going back to his besieged village to save his elderly parents who were left behind by the first wave of refugees.
Bashir
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.
