BERBÛ

Duration:
70 min

Type:
Fiction

Year:
2022

Director:
Sevinaz Evdike

Producer:
Avar Ali

Country:
Kurdistan (Rojava)

Languages:
Kurdish

Subtitles:
English

Gule is preparing her life-long dream wedding in Serekaniye, a city in West-Kurdistan. But the city is bombed by the Turkish army, and the invasion starts. Gule has to flee from the city. On the way, she meets Barin, who could not finish her wedding that day, and Naze, with whom she ends up sharing life and broken dreams in the school conditioned as a shelter for refugees.

Sevinaz was born in Serekaniye/Rojava in 1992. She studied film directing at the Cigerxwin Academy in Diyarbakir/Turkey. She was the co-director of Komina Film a Rojava/ Rojava Film commune, an organization which is an film academy, production and distribution house in Northern Syria. Sevinaz lectures on filmmaking, screenwriting and production and organizes screenings for Kurdish cinema in Syria and the rest of the world.