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HALABJA - THE LOST CHILDREN IN THE GOLF FILM FESTIVAL 5

Director: Akram Hidou

 

 

Germany, Iraq, Syria, /2011/Kurdish dialogue with English subtitles /Colour/Digital File/72 mins

 

Genre: Social, War

Screenings:

Thursday 12/04/12 - 06:30 PM - Grand Cinema 9

Sunday 15/04/12 - 09:45 PM - Grand Cinema 9

Cast & Credits

 

Director: Akram Hidou

Producer: Akram Hidou

Scriptwriter: Akram Hidou

Cinematographer: Akram Hidou

Editor: Franziska von Berlepsch

Composer: Ciwan Haco, Mikail Aslan

 

Synopsis

 

Ali visits the cemetery of Halabja, Kurdistan, Iraq and remains silent in front of a tombstone with his name scratched name upon it. Twenty-one years after Saddam Hussein's poison gas attack in 1988, Ali returns to Halabja looking for his lost family. Meanwhile, five families have their hopes pinned on him to be their missing child.