My Sweet Pepper Land


My Sweet Pepper Land is a 2013 Kurdish-language internationally co-produced drama film directed and co-written by Huner Saleem. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes [Film Festival]. It was nominated in the 7th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Asia Pacific [Screen Award for Achievement in Directing|Achievement in Directing] for Huner Saleem and Best Performance by an Actress for Golshifteh Farahani.

Plot

In a remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan lives the Kurdish patriot Baran who since recently serves as a policeman. He cannot help but provoke the local villain Aziz Aga and finds himself supported by an attractive lady named Govend who works as a teacher.

Cast