My Sweet Pepper Land
Comedy / Drama, directed by Hiner Saleem, France/Iraq 2013, 100 min.
Arabic with English subtitles
Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking.... There, he meets Govend, the teacher of the village, a young woman.