Crossing the Dust

Crossing the Dust

Crossing the Dust film poster
Directed by Shawkat Amin Korki
Produced by Hasan Ali
Nechirvan Argoshi
Turaj Aslani
Shawkat Amin Korki
Written by Shawkat Amin Korki
Starring Adil Abdolrahman
Ayam Akram
Hossein Hasan
Ahlam Najat
Aba Rash
Rizgar Sedi
Release dates
  • 2 December 2006 (2006-12-02)
Running time
 73 minutes
Country France, Iraq
Language Kurdish/English/Arabic

Crossing the Dust (Kurdish: Perrînewe le xobar) is a 2006 film directed by the Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki.

Plot

During the fall of Saddam in 2003, two Kurds are looking for the parents of an Arab boy named Saddam. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because his name is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds (Azad and Rashid) to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor clerics at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. Azad overcomes ethnic differences and tries to help the boy find his parents, much to the objections of Rashid, whose family was wiped out by Iraqi troops under Saddam during the anti-Kurdish campaign in the 1980s. Azad is killed while trying to protect the boy from Saddam's troops, who want to take him back. Rashid puts aside his animosity and carries on with the task of helping the boy find his parents.

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