My sweet Pepper Land
By Hiner Saleem
2013 | 100 min | Drama
Set in wild Kurdistan, nominated for Un Certain Regard at Cannes; a superb film with fierce humor, a grand oriental Western, very handsome, poetic and intense. After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish hero of the Independence War, takes over the post of police commander in a godforsaken village in the border triangle between Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Khwakork is a mecca of illegal trafficking, snowed in six months a year and only accessible by horse. In the remote mountain village, a ...