Films by Orkan Bayram

Germany 2020, 28 min
by Orkan Bayram

Following the lives of two teenage brothers in a Kurdish city of Northern Iraq, Brîndarim depicts the risky routine of these boys forced to become men in a wounded society.Aram and Mihemed are two teenage brothers, who struggle to feed their family, collecting paper for recycling. Their father lost a leg in a terrorist attack while working for the American army. The boys cruise the streets and highways of the now blossoming city of Hewlêr (Arbil) in Kurdistan, Iraq. Depicting their everyday stru