Five minutes with Bekas director
Five minutes with Kurdish-born, Sweden-educated director Karzan Kader. His debut feature Bekas premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival on Monday night and will be screened on Saturday, MOE 7 at 6.45pm. (Kurdish dialogue with Arabic and English subtitles)
Tell us more about your film Bekas.
You will see a part of me in Bekas. ‘Bekas’ refers to a grim situation when you have lost all the members of your family in the war or are completely alone in the world...
Bekas
As a simple tale of attempting to achieve the impossible dream, the beautifully shot Bekas – which means ‘parentless’ – works on various levels and presents an intriguing childlike perspective of Kurdistan, Iraq, in the early 1990s, when Kurds were desperate to escape the country and Saddam.
Bekas has the warmth and passion (and sweetly freewheeling story) to appeal to younger audiences.
Shot with passion and with non-actors (the two young leads offer gritty...
IN SEARCH OF SUPERMAN
DIRECTOR KARZAN KADER’S debut film, the Kurdish-language Bekas, is drawn from his all-too-real experiences as a child trying to flee war-torn Iraq in the early 1990s.
Kader and his family endured a gruelling and dangerous journey to finally settle in Sweden. Now 30 years old, the graduate of Stockholm film school Dramatiska Institutet has brought his movie to the Dubai International Film Festival. The 92-minute story had its international premiere at the Madinat Arena on Monday...
Dubai Film Festival Sets Red Carpet Galas for 'Wadjda,' 'Bekas'
The films from Haifaa Al Mansour and Karzan Kader will be featured in gala screenings.
LONDON – Ground-breaking Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour and debut feature filmmaker Karzan Kader will each have gala screenings for their movies during the upcoming Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).
Mansour, Saudi's first-ever female moviemaker to shoot a film in her own the country, will see Wadjda make its Middle Eastern premiere during the event and should provide...
Karzan Kader recalls his childhood exodus in a beautiful comedy titled Bekas
If there were an award for most endearing film at this 23rd edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, Bekas [trailer, film focus] might very well be the audience's favourite. This feature co-produced by Sweden, Iraq, and Finland received a unanimous and thunderous ovation at its world premiere in the Swedish capital, thanks to its happy blend of children’s comedy, social drama, costumbrist cinema, and road movie.
Director Karzan Kader’s involvement in this project is more than...
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