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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.
Language: Kurdish, Farsi
Subtitles: Italian, English
