Zer

Zer

2DCS12
Director:Kazim Öz
Cast:Nik Xhelilaj, Ahmet Aslan, Haleigh Ciel, Füsun Demirel
Length:110 minutes
Genre:Drama

Director: Kazim Öz  •  Scenario: Kazim Öz  •  Cast: Nik Xhelilaj, Ahmet Aslan, Haleigh Ciel, Füsun Demirel

I would like to invite you to see the film ZER by the Kurdish director Kazim Öz. The film that has already won a number of awards at various festivals. Come and see the charming Oriental road movie, full of beautiful sceneries of mysterious Kurdistan. The story of finding one’s own roots and old family secrets. And last but not least, come and talk to the director, Kazim Öz.

Zer is the story of a New Yorker Jan and his Turkish grandmother Zarife who see each other for the first time when Jan is already grown up and Zarife arrives in the US for a lung-cancer surgery. She leaves John a song in Kurdish, a song about a girl called Zer and a shepherd, a song about a great love. Jan, after his grandmother's funeral, is on his way to Dersim, Kurdistan, to the place where, in 1938, thousands of Alevish Kurds were massacred by the Turkish army. During this journey, he finally finds the song but in first of all he finds himself - as a descendant of a girl who once survived the Dersim massacre.

Length: 110 min

Year: 2017

Country of origin:

  • Turkey

Director: Kazim Öz  •  Scenario: Kazim Öz  •  Cast: Nik Xhelilaj, Ahmet Aslan, Haleigh Ciel, Füsun Demirel

I would like to invite you to see the film ZER by the Kurdish director Kazim Öz. The film that has already won a number of awards at various festivals. Come and see the charming Oriental road movie, full of beautiful sceneries of mysterious Kurdistan. The story of finding one’s own roots and old family secrets. And last but not least, come and talk to the director, Kazim Öz.

Zer is the story of a New Yorker Jan and his Turkish grandmother Zarife who see each other for the first time when Jan is already grown up and Zarife arrives in the US for a lung-cancer surgery. She leaves John a song in Kurdish, a song about a girl called Zer and a shepherd, a song about a great love. Jan, after his grandmother's funeral, is on his way to Dersim, Kurdistan, to the place where, in 1938, thousands of Alevish Kurds were massacred by the Turkish army. During this journey, he finally finds the song but in first of all he finds himself - as a descendant of a girl who once survived the Dersim massacre.

Year: 2017

Country of origin:

  • Turkey