Hejar A Time for Drunken Horses

These films examine the situation of Kurds in Turkey—Handan Ipekci's Hejar (2001)—and Iran: Bahman Ghobadi's A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), a top prize winner at Cannes. Hejar (120 mins.), an involving story about a Turkish judge caring for an orphaned Kurdish child, sheds light on the situation of Kurds in Turkey, the country with the largest Kurdish population in the world.

Co-winner of the top prize for first films at Cannes in 2000, A Time for Drunken Horses (77 mins.) focuses on a family in rural Iranian Kurdistan: an adolescent and his five younger siblings struggling for survival.