LAND

By Babak JALALI

NETHERLANDS FILM FUND / NEDERLANDS FILMFONDS - as FIN

Drama - Completed 2017

A Native American family stuggles with violence and alcohol, when news reaches the Reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan.

    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY, MEXICO, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS
    • Director(s)
    • Babak JALALI
    • Writer(s)
    • Babak JALALI
    • Producer(s)
    • Ginevra ELKANN (ASMARA FILMS), Christophe AUDEGUIS (The cup of tea), Frans VAN GESTEL (TOPKAPI FILMS), Laurette SCHILLINGS (TOPKAPI FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • The Yellow Eagle family lives in an Indian Reservation. Soon after news reaches them that the youngest son has died during military service in Afghanistan, his brother is involved in a fight with the white community and falls in a coma. Trapped in a spiral of alcohol and violence, the eldest has to stand up as a man again. LAND is a modern western about Indians, whites, distance, longing and cattle farms set in the American plains.