Genre
- Drama
Countries of Production
- Germany / Greece
Language
- Kurdish, German, English (OV)
World premiere
- 23rd February 2020 – Berlinale (Perspektive Deutsches Kino)
German cinema release
- 15th July 2021
a production by
- Pallas Film, Match Factory Productions, View Master Films
in co-production with
- ZDF – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, ERT
in association with
- Arte
with the support of
- Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF – Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Greek Film Center, Ekome SA, The Post Republic
World Sales
- The Match Factory
Distribution
- Missing Films
Rojda is a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots who has lived in Germany since childhood. She is now looking for her mother Ferhat in a Greek refugee camp. When the two finally find each other after so many years apart, they are overjoyed. But their happiness soon fades when Rojda learns that her sister Dilan is still in Iraq. Rojda succeeds in bringing her mother to Germany, but she is unable to reach her sister. When the phone rings and Dilan mentions Kurdish fighters, Rojda is filled with fear. She decides to request a redeployment to Erbil in Iraq so she can find her sister. Once there, Rojda quickly wins the trust of the female fighters. But the more intensely she searches for her sister, the more she becomes caught between the two sides.
Rojda Xani
- Almila BAGRIACIK
Berivan
- Zübeyde BULUT
Ferhat Xani
- Maryam BOUBANI
Alex Breidmeier
- Christoph LETKOWSKI
Dilan Xani
- Gonca DE HAAS
Mark Fuhrmann
- Niels Bruno SCHMIDT
Soldier Tom
- Lucas PRISOR
Dimitri
- Yiannis NIAROS
Written by
- Daphne Charizani
Directed by
- Daphne Charizani
Producers
- Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Giorgos Kyriakos
Director of photography
- Falko Lachmund
Editor
- David J. Rauschning
Set design
- Yula Zoiopoulou, Thomas Freudenthal
Casting
- Ulrike Müller
Music
- Florian Tessloff
Costumes
- Jutta Krämer
Makeup
- Manuela Barnbeck
Production Manager
- Vassilis Tzanidis, Marc Wächter
Sound-Design
- Manuel Laval
Mixing Engineer
- Adrian Baumeister
- Filmkunstfest MV / Schwerin, Germany
- German Film Festival in Madrid, Spain
- Shanghai IFF, China
- Seoul International Women's FF, South Korea
- German FF Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Husumer Filmtage, Germany
- War on Screen – International Film Festival, France
- Festival du Cinéma Allemand Paris, France
- Kurdish FF in Berlin, Germany
- Heartland IFF, US
- Human Rights FF Lugano, Switzerland
- Women’s FF “Demakijaż”, Poland
- Sao Paulo IFF, Brasil
- Indie Cork FF, Ireland
- Goethe-Institut Cyprus
- Thessaloniki IFF, Greece
- German Currents FF, US
- Augenblick FF, France
- Filmfestival "Fokus-films from Germany", UK
- DUHOK Internation Kurdish FF, Irak
- Best Narrative Feature Premiere Award / Heartland IFF, Indiana, USA
- Best Actress Award for Maryam Boubani / DUHOKIFF, Iraq
- German Grimme Award, Fiction Competition
