Short Fiction
Directed by Bijan Zarin
Produced by Hassan Shams
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East Kurdistan / 2019 / 13 min / Kurdish with English Subtitles.
Showan lives in a village in Kurdistan on the border between Iran and Iraq. He has been made redundant from his workplace at the factory due to downsizing of the work force. Being forced to smuggle goods on the Iranian-Iraqi border, Showan becomes a Kolbar to make money. But as the group embark on their dangerous mountain crossing, the fear of the Iranian border guards heightens.