Marooned in Iraq (2002)

Original title

جێھێڵراو لە عێراق

Directed by

Bahman Ghobadi

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Kurdish musician and his two sons travel through the Iran-Iraq warzone to find their estranged wife and mother. The journey forces them to confront the devastation of conflict and their own fractured family bonds.

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What happens

Marooned in Iraq (Persian: گم‌گشته‌ای در عراق/Gomgashte i dar Aragh, and also known as Songs of My Motherland Persian: آوازهای سرزمین مادری‌ام) is a 2002 Iranian (Kurdish/Persian) film written and directed by Bahman Ghobadi and produced in Iran. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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