HALABJA - the lost children
Director Akram Hiou
Countries Germany, Iraq
Duration 72 min
Synopsis
Ali visits the cemetery of Halabja, ku northern IQ, and remains silent in front of a tombstone with a scratched name upon. It is his own. Ali returns after 21 years from Iran back to Kurdistan/IQ to his native city Halabja, looking for his lost family. Five families on the other hand hope him to be their missing child. Among them the family of the primary school teacher and artist Fakhradin who lost through the poison gas attack of Saddam Hussein upon Halabja back in 1988 five children. Two among them are missing in the Iran... Is Ali their missing son?
Ali visits the cemetery of Halabja, ku northern IQ, and remains silent in front of a tombstone with a scratched name upon. It is his own. Ali returns after 21 years from Iran back to Kurdistan/IQ to his native city Halabja, looking for his lost family. Five families on the other hand hope him to be their missing child. Among them the family of the primary school teacher and artist Fakhradin who lost through the poison gas attack of Saddam Hussein upon Halabja back in 1988 five children. Two among them are missing in the Iran... Is Ali their missing son?