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BEFORE SNOWFALL

FØR SNØEN FALLER

By Hisham ZAMAN

PARADOX - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2010

Goteborg IFF 2013

Dragon Award Best Nordic FIlm 2013

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NORWAY, GERMANY, TURKEY, KURDISTAN
- Languages
- KURDISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Hisham ZAMAN
- Writer(s)
- Kjell Ola DAHL, Hisham ZAMAN
- Cast
- Taher Abdullah TAHER, Suzan İLİR, Bahar OZEN
- Producer(s)
- Finn GJERDRUM (PARADOX), Stein B. KVAE (PARADOX)
- Synopsis
- A sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That’s how Hisham Zaman’s long awaited feature film debut begins. Before Snowfall is an untraditional roadmovie about family, love, dignity and honor. Siyar is the oldest man in the family. When his sister escapes from her own wedding, he’s given the task to track her down and restore the family’s reputation. The hunt after his sister becomes a dangerous journey from east to west, where the collision of traditional bound cultures and modern western living challenges Siyar to find out who he really is. In Istanbul he meets the young girl Evin, who’s also lost between borders in Europe. They experience a budding friendship and an infatuation. Evin chooses to travel with him, unknowingly of his plan.
- Beginning of shooting
- Sep 01, 2010