SONNE

 Director: KURDWÎN EYÛB

Time: 88’

 Year of Production: 2022

 Language: ELMANÎ-KURDÎ

 Subtitle: TIRKÎ -KURDÎ

Synopsis

Three young girls in Vienna film a dance video while wearing hijabs. As the video spreads online, Yesmin—the only Kurd among the three friends—begins to drift away from her culture. Meanwhile, when Nati and Bellaiki meet two patriotic young Kurds, things get complicated.

Biography

The director and screenwriter was born in Iraq in 1990 and currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied painting and experimental animation at the city’s University of Applied Arts and Dramatic Arts at its Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2010, her short films have been screened at various festivals and solo presentations at home and abroad and have won awards including the Vienna Independent Shorts Newcomer prize. Her first feature-length documentary Paradies! Paradies!, which she wrote, directed and shot, screened at international festivals and won several awards.