KILOMÈTRE ZÉRO

By Hiner SALEEM

PARADISE CITY - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2005


Festivals
& Awards

Cannes Festival 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2005
    • Genres
    • Drama, Comedy
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, IRAQ, FINLAND
    • Director(s)
    • Hiner SALEEM
    • Writer(s)
    • Hiner SALEEM
    • Producer(s)
    • Emilie GEORGES (PARADISE CITY), Alexandre MALLET-GUY (MEMENTO PRODUCTION), Hiner SALEEM (Hiner Saleem Production), Fabrice GUEZ (Dulciné Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.

      In the late 80's, in the small village of Amedi, the Kurd electrician Ako is forced to leave his family and join the Iraqi army to fight in Basra against Iran. When he is assigned to escort the coffin of a deceased soldier to his family, the crosses the country with an Arab driver and plots a scheme to desert the army and bring his wife and son to Paris.