The Heavy Burden
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AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war. After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary. So traumatized by the war Salih returns to Syria to recover his.
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Cast
10 people
Nazmi Kırık
Manager
Known for
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Ethos
Mehmet Ali Arpa
Jiro
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Engin Emre Değer
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Salih
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Adil Abdulrahman
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Yılmaz Özdil Director · Dilşat Canan Cinematographer Doruk Kaya Editor
First release September 17, 2019 · Produced in Türkiye · Languages Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish
Production
Türkiye
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Barê Giran
Original language
Kurdish
Spoken on screen
Arabic · Kurdish · Turkish
Release dates
Türkiye · September 17, 2019
Premiere · Istanbul Independent Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
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