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In The Exam, director Shawkat Amin Korki explores corruption within the Kurdish education testing system. He’s joined by star Avan Jamal and producer Roj Hajo to discuss the inspiration and making of the film, Iraq’s submission for the Academy Awards, for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media.
The Exam centers on two sisters, both played by newcomers to the film industry. Jamal leads the movie as Shilan, the married older sister of Rojin, played by Vania Salar. In an effort to protect her younger sister from being forced into a marriage against her will, Shilan helps her to become involved in an organized exam cheating system so she can get into university.
“My daughter, she told me about the idea of some students with cheating Bluetooth devices,” explains Korki. “And then I researched for months, went to schools and the Ministry of Education,...
In The Exam, director Shawkat Amin Korki explores corruption within the Kurdish education testing system. He’s joined by star Avan Jamal and producer Roj Hajo to discuss the inspiration and making of the film, Iraq’s submission for the Academy Awards, for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media.
The Exam centers on two sisters, both played by newcomers to the film industry. Jamal leads the movie as Shilan, the married older sister of Rojin, played by Vania Salar. In an effort to protect her younger sister from being forced into a marriage against her will, Shilan helps her to become involved in an organized exam cheating system so she can get into university.
“My daughter, she told me about the idea of some students with cheating Bluetooth devices,” explains Korki. “And then I researched for months, went to schools and the Ministry of Education,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Education is emancipation in “The Exam,” a potent social drama about a high school student who will be forced into an arranged marriage unless she can pass a series of university entrance exams. Punctuating its pro-feminist messages with moral and ethical questions about the extremely risky measures taken by the girl to ensure success, the fourth feature by leading Kurdish filmmaker Shawkat Amin Korki (“Memories of Stone”) is packaged with all the suspense and tension of a tightly wound crime thriller. Continuing Korki’s impressive run of features about Iraqi Kurdish life that began with “Crossing the Dust” and “Kick Off,” and want to make their own decisions about marriage and motherhood.
Korki and co-writer Mohamed Reza Gohari cleverly tell their tale through two sets of female eyes. Teenager Rojin (Vania Salar) is dreading the thought of marriage to a man she doesn’t like. Her sister, Shilan (Avan Jamal...
Korki and co-writer Mohamed Reza Gohari cleverly tell their tale through two sets of female eyes. Teenager Rojin (Vania Salar) is dreading the thought of marriage to a man she doesn’t like. Her sister, Shilan (Avan Jamal...
- 10/21/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
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