Director: Hiner Saleem
Script: Hiner Saleem
Assistant Director: Jelal Saidah
Editing: D. Mantzoros, B. Papasthati
Sound: B. Erdelani
Art Director: Saman Sabunci
Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Belçim Bilgin, O. Ciaw Sin, Rojîn Ulker, Tarik Akreyî, Ciwan Haco
Production: HS Production, NovoCiné
Distribution:
NovoCiné
18 rue du faubourg du temple
75011 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.55.28.17.42
Mail: [email protected]
Tel: 0033 1.55.28.17.44
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2006
35 mm, Colour, 90 min,
OV Kurdish with French Subtitles
On top of the Balliova (the honey valley) mountain is a Turkish flag on which one can read "Happy is the one claiming to be Turk". Down in the valley, a cow looks at the flag and dies of a broken heart. Azad has come back to the village to see his fiancée. Dol is the terrible and magnificent story of this man who, on his wedding day, has to flee Turkish Kurdistan. During his escape, he crosses Iraqi Kurdistan, then Iranian Kurdistan, sharing his tragic destiny with other Kurds…
“Dol” means “drum” and “valley” in Kurdish. In French, “dol” is a juridical term meaning to illegally take someone's possession in a fraudulent way. A perfect picture of Kurdistan illegally allocated…" Hiner Salem