Jani Gal
– An Iraqi Kurdish man is released from jail. He has been arrested by mistake when he went to find a m..
An Iraqi Kurdish man is released from jail. He has been arrested by mistake when he went to find a midwife to help his pregnant wife, years ago. As he has been arrested during a demonstration the authorities thought he is one of the opposition group leaders.
22 Jul 2007
Kurdish
Jamil Rostami
Ebrahim Ahmad (original novel), Jamil Rostami, Khosro Sina
Nezar Selami, Rinas Voria, Abdol Hama Javan, Jian Ebrahim
Setting: Sulaymaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in the 1940s. When his wife Kaleh goes into labor, her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife. By ill luck, he runs into the middle of a political demonstration and is seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as the ringleader. After a rigged trial, Jwamer is sentenced to ten years in prison. He serves his sentence and, as soon as he is set free, goes in search of his wife and child.