Zarya Sami

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.

The movie follows Kurdistan during the Covid-19 crisis in 2019, and how it ruined relationships between loved ones.

People are gathered in a tea shop that no longer is able to serve tea as the country is blocked from importing tea. The coalition forces are bombarding all places. Lack of tea has given people headaches. At last, the representative of the coalition forces brings them an offer if they accept their requirements. This short film symbolically narrates the story of annexing Southern Kurdistan to Iraq in 1921.

Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.