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
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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