BEKAS

By Karzan Kader

FACTS

Title: BEKAS

Original title: BEKAS

Director: Karzan Kader

Cast: Zamand Taha, Sarwar Fazil

Genre: Adventure

Duration: 92 min

Country of origin: Sweden / Finland / Iraq

Scriptwriter: Karzan Kader

Cinematographer: Johan Holmquist

Editor: Sebastian Ringler, Michal Leszczylowski

Production Company: Sonet Film AB

Producers: Sandra Harms

Production year: 2012

Executive producers: Peter Possne

Budget EUR: 2M

Local release: 12-11-2012

Film status: Internationally Premiered

Early 90's, Saddam Hussein's regime has put great pressure on the Kurdish region of Iraq. Two homeless Kurdish boys see Superman on the city's first cinema and decides to go to America. To get there, they need passports, money and a lot of luck. Unfortunately they have neither, but they still start their journey towards the dream of America.