Due to widespread poverty in the Kurdish cities of Iran, many people have to smuggle household goods by carrying them over Iran and Iraq’s perilous border to earn a living. This form of smuggling is called Kolbari and the people who do this job are called Kolbar. Today, about 400,000 Kurdish people are involved in Kolbari and every year about 200 Kolbar are killed or injured being shot by security agents, falling from the mountains, stepping on landmines, or freezing from the cold. Documented over the course of six years, filmmaker Arash Rakhsha presents an intimate portrait of Hamid and Yaser, two close friends living in a Kurdish village who are forced into kolbari.
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All The Mountains Give is part of this program:
from 11 April
from 11 April
Director
Arash Rakhsha
Born in 1985, Kermanshah (Kurdistan, Iran), he grew up in a poor family who had a passion for art and literature. After being accepted to the dramatic literature program at the University of Tehran, he started to work in a photo agency. He then pursued a degree in cinematography. ALL THE MOUNTAINS GIVE is his directorial debut.
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