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PASSEURS DE R�VES
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France - Armenia - Italy
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 100 min.
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BEYOND OUR DREAMS
In Kurdistan, somewhere in Mesopotamia, Dolovan and Zara want nothing more than to escape to a better life. Their goal is Paris, land of Piaf and Cousteau, far from the violence and oppression they have known all their lives. But Zara's money and Dolovan's dreams are not enough. They must wait in the Winter Palace, an urban sanctuary in Armenia for refugees destined for the West. When they finally make it to the train that will get them to a boat for Italy, they are separated by circumstances and one of their Winter Place acquaintances. Reaching Italy, Dolovan is indentured to a Venetian trafficker in order to get Zara to safety. Armenia, Ukraine, Italy, France: they are determined to get to Paris. But will the cost be too high?
There is a Kurdistan in Iraq, there is a Kurdistan in Turkey, there is a Kurdistan in Iran and there is a Kurdistan in Syria. But there is no Kurdistan that is Kurd. So I made my film across the border, in Armenia. Everything was familiar, the mountains, the faces, the spaces; without the Kurdish community in Armenia I could not have made this film. -- Hiner Saleem
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Script: Hiner Saleem.
Phot.: Andreas Sinanos.
Ed.: Monique Prim.
Mus.: Nikos Kipourgos.
Cast: Olivier Sitruk, Rosanna Vite Mesropian, Romen Avinian, Edik Bagdassarian, Boris Maloyan, Mariana Dourgarian, Kamal Hamarash, Jacky Narcessian, An�mone, Patrick Bouchitey, Rodolfo Corsato, Fabrice Bernard.
Prod.: Marc Ruscart, Les Films du Rivage, 9, cit� des Trois-Bornes, 75011 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 47 00 46 26, fax: (33-01) 47 00 23 38.
Sales: UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 40 29 89 00, fax: (33-01) 40 29 89 10.
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Hiner Saleem
Born in 1964, Hiner Saleem lives and works in Paris. His grandfather was born in a free Kurdistan but then had to become, in succession, a Turkish, British and Iraqi subject. Saleem's father, Shero, was the subject of his first short, and Kurdistan and the aspirations of the Kurds have been the subject of all his films. These include: Les Kurdes d'Irak (1991), Le Retour de Huner (1991), Shero (1992), Un bout de fronti�re (1993) and VIVE LA MARI�E... ET LA LIB�RATION DU KURDISTAN! (1997). |
