My Sweet Pepper Land

2013 film

  • 22 May 2013 (2013-05-22) (Cannes)
  • 19 March 2014 (2014-03-19) (France)
  • 27 March 2014 (2014-03-27) (Germany)
Running time
95 minutesCountriesFrance
Germany
IraqLanguageKurdish

My Sweet Pepper Land is a 2013 Kurdish-language internationally co-produced drama film directed and co-written by Huner Saleem.[1] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was nominated in the 7th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Achievement in Directing for Huner Saleem and Best Performance by an Actress for Golshifteh Farahani.[3]

Plot

In a remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan lives the Kurdish patriot Baran who since recently serves as a policeman. He cannot help but provoke the local villain Aziz Aga and finds himself supported by an attractive lady named Govend who works as a teacher.

Cast

  • Korkmaz Arslan as Baran (as Korkmaz Arslan)
  • Golshifteh Farahani as Govend
  • Suat Usta as Reber
  • Mir Murad Bedirxan as Tajdin
  • Feyyaz Duman as Jaffar Mohammed Emin
  • Tarik Akreyî as Aziz Ağa

References

  1. ^ "My Sweet Pepper Land". unifrance.org. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  2. ^ "2013 Official Selection". Cannes. 6 May 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Winners & Nominees 2013". asiapacificscreenacademy.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.

External links

  • My Sweet Pepper Land at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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