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THE STORKS

By Behzad AZADI

Drama - Development 2021

Shaho, an ambitious Kurdish teenager living with his mother and little sister tries his best to fill in for his disappeared father. When he finds near a small town a corpse in the river, the secret of his father’s disappearance two years ago starts to be revealed. Ismael, the head of the town's cart

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- IRAN, KURDISTAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Behzad AZADI
- Writer(s)
- Behzad AZADI
- Producer(s)
- Mohsen SHASHA (PIXELATE PICTURES INC.), Baptiste BERTIN (LA ONDA PRODUCTION), Afsun MOSHIRY (ROAD RIVER FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Shaho is living with his mother, Gullala and little sister Hanna in a small socio-political troubled town by the Kurdish Iran-Iraq border. Shaho is trying his best to fill in for his father, Kamiar who disappeared two years ago. Gullala Shaho´s mother doesn't believe her husband is coming back and has divorced in absence and she is newly pregnant from Ismael the head of the town´s cartel.
  Working in a local aviculture, everyday Shaho goes after work to swim in the river by the town. There, he discovers a corpse of a man that he recognizes from a photo, his name is Rizgar. In the Photo Rizgar and Shaho’s father are standing near the Iran-Iraq border at a mountain.
  He connects to Kani Rizgar´s wife, who happens to know more. Kani believes that Ismael, the man who Rizgar and Shaho’s father used to work for, was making use of the Colbars to transport illegal drug goods over the border without them knowing. Regardless of Gullala’s will, Shaho keeps his search for any trace of his father.