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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Jano Rosebiani
Script :
Jano Rosebiani
Photography :
Koutaiba Al Janabi
Editor :
Jano Rosebiani
Cast :
Kurdo Galal�, P�sheng Berzinc�, �oman Hawram�, Enwer Sh�xani, Darya Qadir
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LIFE
On March 16, 1988, five days before the important Kurdish holiday of Newurz, Saddam Hussein's regime sent its air force to bomb the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja with mustard gas, nerve gas and cyanide. Within a few minutes, 5000 men women and children were dead from suffocation or burning. Another 700 were disfigured and others continue to suffer from terminal illnesses, birth defects and disease spread by contaminated land and water. Despite the scale of the slaughter, international reaction was relatively subdued and no large-scale sanctions or reprisals were taken against the Iraqi government. JIYAN is set against the background of these events. Five years after the attack, a Kurdish-American man, Diyari, retuns to his homeland. He wants to set up an orphanage in Halabja. He slowly gets to know the people of the town, such as the man who has sat playing the flute day and night on a roof since he lost his wife and eight children. But most attention is focussed on Jiyan ("life" in the Kurdish language), a shy, 10-year-old girl who has stayed behind alone with her cousin Sh�rco, a 12-year-old who has also lost his family to the poison gas. Sh�rco is fiercely protective of Jiyan and determined to marry her when the time comes. As Diyari's project slowly takes shape, Jiyan gradually emerges from her silence to rejoin the larger community."Moving, often poetic testimony to the tragedy and to the will of the devastated people to heal and rebuild." -- David Rooney (Variety)
Jano Rosebiani
Born and raised in the Kurdish town of Zakho, Jano Rosebiani joined the Kurdish uprising against the Iraqi regime in 1974 and two years later became a refugee in the United States. In the mid-80s he began managing film theatres in Washington D.C. and made experimental videos for public television in Virginia. In 1988 he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a scriptwriter. He made his directorial debut in 1995 with DANCE OF THE PENDULUM.
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