Haus ohne Dach (2016)
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Mina Sagdic, Sasun Sayan, Murat Seven, Wedad Sabri, Ahmet Zirek, Feyyaz Duman, Hussein Hassan
Three siblings journey from Germany to Iraqi Kurdistan to fulfill their mother's final wish, confronting family divisions and a homeland that has grown unfamiliar.
The story
Alan, Jan, and Liya were born in Kurdistan and grew up in Stuttgart. After their mother dies, they set out to fulfill her last wish: to bury her in her Kurdish home village beside their father, who was killed during the Iraq War under Saddam Hussein’s regime. The journey takes them to the Kurdish part of Iraq, where relatives oppose their mother’s wish. The siblings also face their own distance from their former homeland, the separate lives they have built, and rifts among themselves. As they struggle to navigate a place that has become unfamiliar, tensions begin to rise.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The siblings Alan, Jan, and Liya were born in Kurdistan but grew up in Stuttgart. They want to fulfill their mother’s last wish: to be buried in her Kurdish home village beside their father, who was killed during the Iraq War under Saddam Hussein’s regime. On their journey to the Kurdish part of Iraq, the siblings are confronted not only by relatives who disagree with their mother’s final wish, but also with the fact that over the years they themselves have become mentally distanced from their old homeland and have now each begun a life of their own. Rifts between the siblings also emerge. Conflicts in their homeland, which has become unfamiliar to them, escalate, and their precarious journey heads toward catastrophe.
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