Introduction

Rojda, a German soldier and native Kurd, volunteers for a mission to train female Kurdish soldiers in Iraq to fight ISIS. No one must know that she is actually looking for her missing sister.

Outline

Rojda is a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots who has lived in Germany since childhood. She is now looking for her mother Ferhat in a Greek refugee camp. When the two finally find each other after so many years apart, they are overjoyed. But their happiness soon fades when Rojda learns that her sister Dilan is still in Iraq. Rojda succeeds in bringing her mother to Germany, but she is unable to reach her sister. When the phone rings and Dilan mentions Kurdish fighters, Rojda is filled with fear. She decides to request a redeployment to Erbil in Iraq so she can find her sister. Once there, Rojda quickly wins the trust of the female fighters. But the more intensely she searches for her sister, the more she becomes caught between the two sides.

Cast

• Almila Bagriacik … Rojda Xani
• Zübeyde Bulut … Berivan
• Maryam Boubani … Ferhat Xani
• Christoph Letkowski … Alex Breidmeier
• Gonca de Haas … Dilan
• Niels-Bruno Schmidt … Fuhrmann (as Niels Bruno Schmidt)
• Yiannis Niarros … Officer Dimitri
• Lucas Prisor … Tom
• Kostas Bazas … Officer Costas
• Ceylan Bulus … Rozerin Mafakhery
• Jyana Karami … Navdil Abdulquader
• Rosgar Abubakr … Berfin Suleiman
• Arin Ahmad … Cigdem Eli Mala Mihammed
• Gashin Sohrabzadeh … Shirin Yosif
• Kibar Mohammad … Avin Hajiahmadi
• Ferhat Keskin … Herr Baharani
• Fermesk Mustafa Abdolrahman … Frau Baharani

Production

Filmed in Kurdistan, Iraq.

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s):
  • Daphne Charizani
• Producer(s):
  • Viola Fügen … producer
  • Martin Hampel … producer
  • Thanassis Karathanos … producer
  • Giorgos Kyriakos … co-producer
  • Kostas Lambropoulos … producer
  • Effie Skrobolas … co-producer
  • Cécile Tollu-Polonowski … Junior Producer
  • Michael Weber … producer
• Writer(s):
  • Daphne Charizani
• Music:
  • Florian Tessloff
• Cinematography:
  • Falko Lachmund
• Editor(s):
  • David J. Achilles … (as David J. Rauschning)
• Production:
  • Pallas Film
  • The Match Factory
  • View Master Films
  • Das kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF) (co-production)
  • Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) (co-production)
  • ARTE (in association with)
  • Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (support)
  • Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (support)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (support)
  • Greek Film Centre (GFC) (support)
  • Greek Cash Rebate Program (support)
  • The Post Republic (support)
• Distributor(s):
  • Missingfilms (Germany, 2021)(theatrical)
  • ARTE Mediathek (Germany, 2022)(VoD, video)
  • ARTE Mediathek (France, 2022)(VoD, video)
  • ARTE (Germany, 2022)(TV)
  • ARTE (France, 2022)(TV)
  • The Match Factory (World-wide, 2020)
  • ZDF Mediathek (Germany, 2023)(VoD, video)
  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Germany, 2023)(TV)
• Release Date: 20 February 2020 (Berlin International Film Festival, Germany).
• Running Time: 93 minutes.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: Germany.
• Language: German, Kurdish, and English.

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