Iraqi Film at Cannes for First Time

Direc­tor Saleem in the mid­dle with two Turk­ish actors

“Kilo­me­tre Zero” is the first Iraqi film com­pet­ing at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val. Direc­tor Hiner Saleem, an Iraqi Kurd who fled the coun­try as a teenager, returned to his home­land to shoot the movie after Saddam’s fall.

Dia­logue from the movie

DRIVER
Don’t you like Arabs?

AKO
And you, you don’t like Kurds?

DRIVER
We could talk about arab-kurdish rela­tion­ships.
Let’s talk about it.
Let’s talk about arab-kurdish relationships.

AKO
Go ahead

DRIVER
No, you go first.

AKO
You go.

DRIVER
Say something.

AKO
So?

DRIVER
You talk.

AKO
No, you.

DRIVER
You talk.

AKO
No, you.

DRIVER
No

AKO
No

DRIVER
Enough, enough.

Links

1– Iraqi Film at Cannes for First Time

2– KILOMETRE ZERO