Reality and fiction blend in the stories of the people living in three cities, Sinjar (Shengal) in South Kurdistan, Kobane, and Jazaa in Rojava. The three cities have been destroyed by the Islamic State and liberated by Kurdish fighters. Three stories about the inhumanity and banality of modern war, but also about the hope that a better future can blossom among the ruins.
Original Title: Çîroka bajarên wêrankirî
International Title: Stories of Destroyed Cities
Director: Sêro Hindî (Shero Hinde)
Original Language: Kurdish
Production Country and Year: Northern and Eastern Syria Federation-Rojava, Iraq, 2016
Duration: 90’
Production: Rojava Film Commune, Önder Çakar
Director of Photography: Mazdek Ararat, Diyar Hesso, Elî Hisên, Hogir Qolan
Sound: Metin Bozkurt
Editing: Diyar Hesso, Nadia Derwîş
Music: Mehmoud Berazi
The Director
Sêro Hindî (Qamishlo, 1983) is a director, actor, scriptwriter and teacher from Qamishlo, Syria. He makes short and feature-length documentaries based on the culture and lyrical heritage of the present-day surroundings of ancient Mesopotamia and is one of the founders of Komina Film a Rojava (Rojava Film Commune).
Filmography
- Who Knows Who I am? – 25’ – 2010
- Maco is cold – 8’ – 2014
- Çîroka bajarên wêrankirî (Stories of Destroyed Cities) – 50’ – 2016
- The Bad Knife – 50’ – 2016
- Darên bi tenê (The Lonely Tree) – 42’ – 2017
