TRANSIENT HAPPINESS

غه‌ریبانه‌ له‌م خۆشبه‌ختییه‌ ده‌ڕوانم

RUVIA FILM - as PROD

First film - Completed 2023

An old man and his wife live in a remote village. One day, the woman who has never seen any attention from her husband falls ill. Her husband has only a motorbike that he uses to transport sheep and sell them to the butchers. For the first time, he is obligated to drive his wife to the hospital on

Festivals
& Awards

El Gouna Film Festival 2023
Feature narrative film competition
El Gouna film festival 2023
best Arabic movie
El Gouna film festival 2023
best actress
Amestardam kurdish film 2023
best Feature narrative
Duhok film festeval 2023
best Kurdish actress
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • IRAQ
    • Languages
    • KURDISH
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 67 mn
    • Synopsis
    • An old man and his wife live in a remote village. One day, the woman who has never seen an affectionate smile or any attention from her husband, falls ill. Her husband has only one means of transport, which is a motorbike he uses to transport sheep into the city and sell them to the butchers. For the first time, he is obligated to drive his own wife to the hospital on his motorbike.
       Since it is her first time, she rides onto the motorbike with a shy and embarrassed feeling. She is afraid and doesn’t know how to position herself. As they’re about to drive off to the hospital, she hears her husband say: “Sit tight, hold on, and
       “hug me”. She hears these words from her husband for the first time, so she embraces him with a timid bashfulness. They start to make way, and this woman’s overjoyed from hearing this simple line. Tears run down her cheeks. Halfway there, she asks her husband to go back home. The man says: “We’re close. Why should we head back?”. “I got better. Let’s go home”, she says. The man is compelled to go back home.
       He never knew that this simple line, “Hug me”, had created so much security and joy in his wife’s mind. In fact, this sense of calmness cured her sickness and compelled her to go home in the middle of the road