Images : Sara Cornu avec la participation de Alexei Jankovs Son : Makar Akhpachev, Dominique Vieillard Direction de production : Anne Cohen-Solal Producteurs : Les Films d'Ici - Serge Lalou / Musée du Quai Branly - Hélène Cerutti / Arte France / Bereg Partenaires : Procirep / Angoa / Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée Diffuseurs : Arte
Companies :
Arte France, Serge Lalou - Les Films d'Ici, musée du quai Branly
Torn apart by history, the Kurdish community
comes back to life each year during the Spring
festival, an ancient juvenisation rite that
predates Islam.
At the heart of our tale, we find Senia, an
elderly woman at the head of a large family
living in the village of Gawilan Botan, in the
region of Bardarash, about an hour’s drive
from Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The challenge facing this film, despite the
apparent contradiction, is that of describing a
Muslim community in the Middle East through
the portrait of a woman, a woman who rules
her family with an iron hand.