Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Script: Bahman Ghobadi
Cinematographer: Shahriar Assadi
Editing: Mostaba Kherghehpoosh, Hayedeh Safiyari
Sound: Bahman Ardalan
Music: Hossein Alizadeh
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, S.H. Feysal, H.F. Rahman, A.R. Karim, Ajil Zibari
Production: MIJ Film Co., Bac Films
Distribution:
Bac Films
88 rue de la Folie Mericourt
75011 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.53.53.52.52
Fax: 0033 1.53.53.06.73
Mail: [email protected]
www.bacfilms.com
Year: 2004
35 mm, Colour, 95 min,
OV Kurdish with French Subtitles
Awarded at San Sebastian, Berlin, Tokyo & Montreal Film Festivals
In Iraqi Kurdistan, at the boarder with Iran and Turkey, the inhabitants of a village actively look for a parabolic antenna allowing them to get satellite news: it is the day before the American attack against Iraq. Kak Satellite is the little leader of a kids’ gang. Continuously vociferating, he organises work: to clear a land of mines, unload a truck from a shells cargo, put up a satellite dish…
The adults seem to be missing. A mutilated boy coming from another village with his young sister Agrin and her child announces the arrival of the Americans…War becomes more and more imminent…
"I wanted to dedicate this film to all the innocent children in the world who are the victims of the dictators and fascists’ policy." Bahman Ghobadi