Kilomètre Zéro
An alarmed Kurdish electrician (Nazmi Kirik) is desperate to leave Kurdistan with his beautiful wife (Belcim Bilgin) and young son in 1988, but he is reluctantly drafted into the Iraqi army with two friends (Ehmed Qeladizeni and Nezar Selami) during Saddam Hussein's iron-fisted, brutal reign in Hiner Saleem's taut, beautifully photographed, insightful 2005 film and ends up in a dusty, professional line of rundown station wagons as he escorts the body of an Iraqi soldier to his family with an ornery, racist taxi driver (Eyam Ekrem) at the wheel.
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