My Sweet Pepper Land

France/Kurdistan/Germany 2013

Director: Hiner Saleem

100 minutes, Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish

Starring:
Korkmaz Arslan
Golshifteh Farahani
Suat Usta

It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman. Together, Govend and Baran will defy Aga Azzi's power, and help the Turkish Kurd resistance movement.