THE BREAD SEASON

 Director: EMEER HASSANPOUR-ANVAR HASSANPOUR

 Time: 92’

Year of Production: 2025

 Language: KURDÎ

Subtitle: TIRKÎ-INGILÎZÎ

Synopsis

Demsala Nan (the Bread Season) takes place today in the Kurdish city of Amed (aka Diyarbakir) located within present-day eastern Turkey. Kurdish working class life is a daily struggle that places enormous pressure on the family and familiar relationships. This film follows the experiences of one such family and its members: Mahmoud, the father; Fatma, the mother; and Azad, their son, as they survive and dream of different ways of living while stuck in the open hostility of their family relationship.

Biography

 Emeer Hassanpour is a director, actor and co-producer whose credits include The Eunuch (2017), Pelicans (2010), M for Motherhood (2020), The Death Dance (2021), and Hejar (2019). Mr. Hassanpour also writes cinematic reviews and analyses for magazines including Prisma and Flux Magazine. He is the founder and chief editor of Cine Bizarre Magazine as well as former president of the Chicago Experimental Film Society. Mr. Hassanpour is a graduate of Cinema Studies at the University of Southern California. His research and filmmaking practice is centered around a new approach to the cinematic aesthetics including memory, labor, sound and silence.

 

Anvar Hassanpour is a Kurdish filmmaker and scholar known for his work in independent cinema. Over the course of two decades he has made and produced documentaries, experimental films, film essays and narrative works. Anvar holds a BA and Cinema Art and a MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University. His research revolves around the concept of totality in film production, analyzing its profound influence on both the form and content of films. From the position of an immigrant filmmaker, he also addresses the intricate intersections of film production’s political economy.