Memories on Stone (2014)

Original title

Bîranînen li ser Kevirî

Directed by

Shawkat Amin Korki

Genre

drama film

Country

Iraq, Germany

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Two schoolfriends in Iraqi Kurdistan try to make a film about the Anfal campaign against Kurds under Saddam. They face difficulties in telling this story after the war.

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What happens

Memories on Stone (Kurdish: Bîranînen li ser kevirî) is a 2014 Kurdish-language German-Iraqi film directed by Shawkat Amin Korki. It was produced by mitosfilm and mitosfilm Iraq. It describes the struggles of schoolfriends Alan and Hussein of making a post-war film about the atrocities against the Iraqi Kurdish population in Al-Anfal campaign during Saddam Hussein's regime. The film was selected as the Iraqi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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