Zagros (2017)

Havin, the young wife of Kurdish shepherd Zagros, is being accused of adultery. She flees with their daughter Rayhan from Kurdistan to Brussels. Zagros is convinced of her innocence, leaves his family to start a new life.

Director:

Sahim Omar Kalifa

Writers:

Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem

Stars:

Feyyaz Duman, Maaike Neuville, Halima Ilter

7 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Feyyaz Duman	...	Zagros
Maaike Neuville	...	Lore
Halima Ilter
Aziz Çapkurt	...	Youssef
Anass Haskouri	...	Cab Driver
Steve Van Nuffel	...	Truck driver / human trafficker
Yusuf Çetin	...	Jir
Brader Musiki	...	Abdollah
Daria Hachem Mohamet Gulli	...	Rayhan
Karl Ferlin	...	Refugee Truck
Elvan Kocer	...	Eliz
Suat Usta	...	Dara
Leyla Batgi	...	Fatima
Munip Seven	...	Uncle Fatah
Serkaut Mustafa	...	Ali

Storyline

Havin, the young wife of Kurdish shepherd Zagros, is being accused of adultery. She flees with their daughter Rayhan from Kurdistan to Brussels. Zagros is convinced of her innocence, leaves his family to start a new life.

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Plot Keywords:

kurds | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

A Private View [Belgium] Official site

Country:

Belgium

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

15 November 2017 (Belgium)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, A Private View, Man's Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Kurdistan part of the movie was filmed in Kreta.

User Reviews

Heart sinking movie

Very believable struggle beween the traditional Kurdish sociëteit and modern western life. The romantic village life in Kurdistan is in this movie unmasked in a vilifying way. We long sometimes to that safety of simple life of this shepherd Zagros in a society were everything has its simple place and where you are one with the community where you live in. Like Zagros says it in the beginning of the movie sitting with his beautiful wife and sweet child in the Kurdish landscape and says that this is the most beautiful place in the world. I heard once a western journalist say in a documentary about life in the Kaukasus meeting people demonstrating and celebrating their oneness in such a village: "You live in a real community. We westerners lost our tribe." And yes we do have that feeling of loss living our individualistic often lonely western lifes. We go on holidays to tiny Italian villages, old little towns in Bulgaria, kampungs on Bali to experience the seemingly harmonious life where people feel close and caring for each other. But this film demonstrates how oppressive such a traditional community can be. We see a few people trying to free themselves from that tiranny of gossip and strict traditions by emigrating to the modern west. If this works is put into question. Escaping to the west one always takes the belief in the conventions of the tradition with him or her. In this movie only the people who are traumatized deeply by the terror of the traditional village make a successful escape because they don't see a way back. But also for them the village will always come after them.