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+Minnesota Premiere
+Kurdish Language Film
Friday, 9/28
3:30 p.m.
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Unfortunately our post-screening discussion with filmmaker Hakar Abdulqader has had to be cancelled due to the denial of his visa by the US Embassy in Iraq. See here for MPR’s story on all of the artists denied visas for our festival this year.
SEPARATION (HAVIBON)
الفراق
Hakar Abdulqader
documentary
69 mins / 2017
Iraq
Kurdish with English and Arabic subtitles
Minnesota premiere
After fleeing besieged Shingal in Iraq, thousands of Yazidi Kurds found themselves trapped at the top of Shingal Mountain without food or water. Faced with no other choice, three men leave the group to seek sustenance for their families, unaware that safe passage to Kurdistan is possible. As the men search for food, water, and refuge, the film focuses on their wives and children—those who are left behind to anxiously wait in a refugee camp for their families to return.
Festival and Awards:
Duhok City Award, Duhok International Film Festival, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2017
Venice International Film Festival, Italy, 2017
Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia, 2017
Hakar Abdulqader is an award-winning Kurdish documentary film director, writer and editor. He was born in 1980 in Duhok City, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. He began working in documentary filmmaking in 2000 and has worked as an editor on the sets of many shorts, documentaries, and TV series.
